I'm almost leaving...

I got a mouse for my laptop a few days ago. I have always been using the touchpad on my laptop and while it was functional, the touchpad is not as effective as using a mouse. Say, use the touchpad to play Diablo II, or WoW...that would be a nightmare. After I got my mouse, I spent the first 2 hours playing solitaire and freecell. It was much more fun using a mouse to play.

I checked my calendar today, and realized (with some horror) school is ending in 2 weeks. I still have so many assignements to do, and since I am leaving Madison, I have to start selling my stuff as well. I am most worried about selling my car; I'm not sure I can find a buyer for it. Then I have to deal with all the books and notes accumulated from 3 years of classes, throwing them away seems such a waste. So many things to do, so little time. At least I've already booked my air tickets...

I am going to miss Madison after I leave, afterall I have called this place home for the past 3 years. I am just hoping I can come back here for grad school.

Undergraduate Symposium

The Undergraduate Symposium was at Memorial Union on Wednesday. I was scheduled to present my poster during the second session. When I went for my time slot, there weren't many people around to look at the posters displayed there. I was expected to stay there for 1.5 hours, but since there was no one looking at my posters, I started walking around to look at other posters. Some posters were quite impressive, and it seems like the presenters have managed to do a lot of work. Others were a bit more simplistic.

A few of my friends came to MU to support me, maybe because they knew there wouldn't be a lot of people around during lunch time...

When I looked at my poster, I find it hard to believe I have done 2 years of research. What is surprising is that I have results to show for my 2 years of work, because I remember a lot experiments not working, machinery not working , funny results etc...


Me with my poster

GRE!!!

I took the GRE subject test on Saturday. Considering that I am definitely applying to graduate school, I should take this test at this time to make it in time for applications, even though most grad schools don't make them compulsory anymore. Just optional, or strongly recommended. But still, I thought I should just try the test.

The one I took was Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology. I had to dig up my notes from some of sophomore science courses. I only started studying on wednesday, cos I had an exam on tuesday...so cramming 2-3 years of notes in 3 days was a challenge.

The test had a lot of questions, not that hard if you know your facts at the back of your hard, extremely difficult if you have not been working consistently and crammed for it instead. Yeah, so I was overwhelmed by the amount of questions. When I walked out of the test center, my thoughts were...I can't believe I paid $130 to go through that...

Archery and Memory Loss

Last week, I decided to try my hand at archery. My friend was from the archery club, so he managed to let us into the place early to try a few rounds. It was at the barn near Babcock. The bow was so cool, but getting the string on required more strength than I have. When I finally got the bow ready, and everything setup (it took almost 35 minutes), I kept missing the target by a few inches. It's frustrating, but shooting arrows at a target board is fun too, haha...

The most amazing/freaky thing happened to me on Sunday morning...I sort of lost of memory, and I wasn't even drinking before that. I fell asleep on Sunday morning 3 am after doing some reading, and I set my alarm clocks to 6 am. I wanted to wake up early and start working on my assignments. When I woke up, it was 12 noon. Definitely later than I wanted myself to wake up. I checked my alarm clock, it was turned off. My second clock was turned off too. When I called my mum to tell her about it, she said she called me at around 8 am, and I picked up the phone. The scary thing is, I have no memory of either answering the phone or turning off my alarm clocks. I thought things like that only happen to people who were drunk the night before??