Post from Grad School #1

Hello from the land of St. Louis!! I'm officially half way through with this summer's grad school courses and it's SO hard to believe I've been here for a week and a half already! Time really flies (even when you're NOT having fun!).

It was so fun getting here and seeing all of my grad school buddies again! We all just clicked back into the groove of having classes and hanging out together and have been really enjoying spending time with each other and catching up on what's happened over the year. Even though it's hard to be away from home and my awesome hubby--at least I have cool people to be around while I'm away!

As far as classes go, it's been a mixed bag so far. Last week was AWESOME!! Our class was neuroscience and I LOVED everything about it! The professor was amazing (smart AND an incredible teacher) and the labs were really interesting and fun. This week has been, well, not so awesome. It's called "Transformations in Matter and Energy" and sounds about as exciting as it is. It's pretty dull. Mostly because I think the information is dull and I don't teach much of this info...and the professor is less skilled at teaching than last week's professor. 2.5 hours of lecture with a boring professor is not my idea of a fabulous time. Oh well...at least the labs have been okay. The best part is we have a group project to make a video on an alternative energy source. My group has biodiesel which is REALLY super cool and our video is going to rock. I am the producer/editor and it's such fun to play around with imovie! I will post the video once we finish it, so you can learn all about biodiesel fuels =)!

Aside from classes, I've been having fun going out around St. Louis and also got the chance to drive up to Bloomington, IL last weekend to meet up with my old ISU roomie, Sara, my old Red Lobster waitress buddy Erin, my friends Mike and Carla that I lived with for the last few weeks of college in 2003 and my old Deaf ed professor. It was so much fun to see old friends and I marvel at how much fun we have together even when we haven't seen each other in years!! I will post some pictures of our fun times below.

The upcoming weekend should be fun as well as we have plans to TRY and get tickets to a Cardinals game and we will be going on a float trip down one of the MO rivers on Saturday. Oh, and there will be some studying for our final exam in there at some point too!

Be watching for the posting of our biodiesel movie...cuz it's gonna ROCK =)!


Sara, Me, and Carla under the BIG Giraffe


Mike and Carla rocking it at Putt-Putt


Sara and I at Red Lobster--our FAVORITE Bloomington restaurant!


Erin (old waitress buddy) and I at "The Lobster"...we had some good times there!