HFCS: effika’s blog

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Beauocracy in action Today myself, Paul, Ryan, and I assume the majority of the students received letters from the bursar’s office urging us to set up automatic deposit thingies, and to do so by Dec. 10th for assurance of any early deposits to go through. Today was Dec. 10th. The letters were dated Dec. 10th….

Moving in together, lite Ryan talked to me about all of us getting an off-campus appartment next year. He wants to get a 4-bedroom appartment. His parents are the only people who don’t know/might care that I can’t technically wear white at my wedding (according to old traditions). We don’t plan on telling them anytime soon, and Ryan doesn’t want to arouse their suspicions. Of course, my parents don’t want to deal with me in an appartment– I suppose I’ll see when it gets closer.

FINALS SUCK. David and Annie are coming this weekend, I have a final on Thursday, 2 on Monday that I desperately need the weekend for…. argh… guess I’ll have to be as nice as I can to David and Annie about my being a bit of a hermit for the weekend. I think his main drive in going up this weekend was so that he could show off Annie to Ryan, since we still have no idea what we’re doing during the break.

Majors Misgivings I’ve had a small change of plans for my major. I got to thinking about what things I enjoy. I’d love to just spend all my time in a lab somewhere working with diseases, figuring out how they work, how to stop them, ect. After I realized that, pharmacy seemed incredibly boring. I’m not sure that I could work as a pharmacist now, even with the high pay. Here I thought I was going to latch onto the next class distinction (with Ryan’s help) and give myself the pecunary lifestyle which I’d always liked to live in. So… now, if I do this (and spend much more time in college here and at the OU Health Sciences Center) I’ll have less money but probably lots more fun. I talked it over with Ryan and Paul a few nights ago. Paul felt it was a good move for me; he liked the idea of me in a lab. Ryan seemed taken aback at the idea (possibly since it’d be much less money, and I think we had both decided that we wanted a nice cushy life with a big house) but came around to it after I described how droll pharmacy now looked. It’ll be the same courses for both career paths, so credits won’t be a problem if I change my mind back again. Pharmacy never really apealed to me, now that I think about it. I saw how big the students loans I could take out and be able to repay would be with the salary it would garner, decided I was good enough in chemistry and biology to do it, and settled in. I’m kind of scared now, without the security of being able to work anywhere and get a good salary. I had always planned to pick up and move with Ryan to wherever he went– probably the west coast or Texas, where the computer industry is good. Now it will be much more complicated, and I suppose we’ll see just how good our relationship is when the time comes to find jobs. I’d no longer be an afterthought to his career with that job– I’d only be able to pull in a good salary and work in certain places, too, and that’d have to be considered. It’s scary, but I’m also relieved to be excited about something again. College was just as boring as the pharmacy job I’d take would be. Now I have the energy to actually make something of myself. Maybe I’ll try going back to Academic Team next semester.

*goes back to staring ruthlessly at some chemistry in hopes it will absorb into her brain*