so this weekend gave me some blogging material -
horseback riding with rinn, thia, and meg
enough sleep for once
and about 7 hours of studying today for my physics exam tomorrow.
awesome!
pictures of the horsies to come.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
post-fall break
so i've been told its time and past time for me to have another blog post...
the problem is i don't think i have anything interesting to say. except a.) i'm sick of physics and i still have 1.5 semesters of it to go and b.) i wish that my break had been longer.
hmm... i guess one interesting thing is that i'm going horseback riding with rinn this weekend. but that hasn't happened yet, so it's not like i can write about it.
my brother's soccer team is going into the playoffs...they beat reading 6-0 (7-0?) when i was home and i decided not to work on my cell biology paper to go to the game. i paid for that tuesday night when i worked on it in the morning, on the 4 hour ride to EMU, in the evening, and until about 2:30 in the morning, finishing up between Honors and Physics Wednesday. but i think the paper was decent. it was like 11 pages long and i feel like i understood the various articles i read, so that's good.
actually, that paper is probably one of the most interesting things i've done in the last while. i had to research the basic question of how neurons make connections, and along the way there were other questions to answer. it involves the tips of neurons (growth cones) that grow towards or away from various "chemoattractants" or chemical guidance molecules in the body. the cytoskeleton of the neuron changes in some pretty interesting ways in order to "steer" the growth cone. i could go on and on - 11 pages worth of information, yeah? probably more than anyone wants to hear, haha.
anyway, i was pretty impressed that i ended up writing so much all in the span of a day and a half.
the problem is i don't think i have anything interesting to say. except a.) i'm sick of physics and i still have 1.5 semesters of it to go and b.) i wish that my break had been longer.
hmm... i guess one interesting thing is that i'm going horseback riding with rinn this weekend. but that hasn't happened yet, so it's not like i can write about it.
my brother's soccer team is going into the playoffs...they beat reading 6-0 (7-0?) when i was home and i decided not to work on my cell biology paper to go to the game. i paid for that tuesday night when i worked on it in the morning, on the 4 hour ride to EMU, in the evening, and until about 2:30 in the morning, finishing up between Honors and Physics Wednesday. but i think the paper was decent. it was like 11 pages long and i feel like i understood the various articles i read, so that's good.
actually, that paper is probably one of the most interesting things i've done in the last while. i had to research the basic question of how neurons make connections, and along the way there were other questions to answer. it involves the tips of neurons (growth cones) that grow towards or away from various "chemoattractants" or chemical guidance molecules in the body. the cytoskeleton of the neuron changes in some pretty interesting ways in order to "steer" the growth cone. i could go on and on - 11 pages worth of information, yeah? probably more than anyone wants to hear, haha.
anyway, i was pretty impressed that i ended up writing so much all in the span of a day and a half.
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Relief Sale
I went to the relief sale in Harrisonburg today and guess who I saw? Helen and Wilber, my great-aunt and uncle. Today I was musing on the idea of connectedness, rootedness ... what it means in my life to be part of the Mennonite community.
I also got a baked potato for lunch, half a homemade donut, shared some black cherry icecream, and drank a cup of locally made apple cider. It pretty much redeemed my week - and reminded me of how much I love autumn in the Shenandoah Valley.
I also got a baked potato for lunch, half a homemade donut, shared some black cherry icecream, and drank a cup of locally made apple cider. It pretty much redeemed my week - and reminded me of how much I love autumn in the Shenandoah Valley.
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