Whirlwind Week
Hi followers!
I know the former TNQD would occasionally update you all on what was going on with his personal life etc., so I’m going to attempt to do that occasionally as well. I think it’s important since it gives people a chance to see the more “normal” (who are we kidding…premeds are far from normal haha) and human side of the premed and med student life.
So this has been my life in a nutshell for the past week:
- I successfully defended my senior honors thesis! YAY! I turned in the official final draft and all the paperwork this morning, so now I’m set to graduate summa cum laude. My mentor for my project wasn’t able to help me much during the last few weeks of writing (consequently I thought was going to cause me to have a mini-meltdown since I was flying solo) but everything turned out just fine. In fact, he said after seeing the full extent of my thesis work, he wants to nearly double the page-length of the journal article that we plan to submit soon!
- To celebrate the thesis victory, I took all day last Saturday off and went to a winery with my roomies and a bunch of my friends from high school. We felt so ridiculously adult and “cultured” after they gave us our tasting glasses and cheese platters lol. The winery had an attached farm too, so we toured around and then bought some local honey (my allergies have been awful this year so I’m hoping that’ll help) and these delicious homemade blueberry yogurt-covered pretzels that they make on the farm. Then on the way home we all realized that our city’s basketball team was playing in the NCAA tournament that afternoon, so we found this little sports bar/pizza place to eat lunch and watch the game.
- Ordered my cap and gown on Monday (ahhhhh!) and have only a month and some odd days left until graduation!
- I was asked to write a recommendation letter for my boss (woah, just woah. I’m not ready for this level of adult responsibility haha. Just months ago I was asking her for a letter for my medical school applications).
- I get to skip class today because I’m leaving for Chicago to compete at ICT! So excited! After nearly 12 years (started in 4th grade), this is my final semester of playing academic quiz bowl (grad students are eligible to compete but med students seldom have the time to), and I’m really going to miss it, especially my teammates. We have a lot of fun traveling to competitions, having roadtrip singalongs to 80s rock ballads and some hardcore rap (which we’re really too “white and nerdy” to be singing haha) and our team parties. Also I get a bit of satisfaction from challenging quiz bowl stereotypes since girls are rare on collegiate teams, and I’m the only one on our division I team and am surrounded by male engineering majors. They’ve dubbed me “team mom” because I’ve always got bandaids and make cookies for our roadtrips -_- Still I’m gonna miss those guys next year.
I probably won’t be posting much until I get back from Chicago on Sunday, so I hope you guys have a great weekend!
-TNQD
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- soulrunner said: Wow! Congratulations on making it summa cum laude! And have fun at the academic quiz bowl; I wish our school did those more. =D
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