Go ahead and ask me

"What did you do this weekend?"

Me? Oh, I performed 18 pregnancy tests and baked 63 cookies. Not at the same time, of course. :)

In the last post, I told you about my brilliant idea of baking cookies with the equations of polyatomic ions. Well, here they are!!



It cost me about 5 bucks and 5 hours to finish this. I think I developed carpel tunnel syndrome from the icing, though. My wrists hurt! But they look awesome, right?! Since I made an uneven number I think I'll have to kill one of them myself. You know, to make sure they don't taste terrible. Hopefully they'll make a lot of money for the science club, er, um, the other club with the really cool name.

Mmmmm.... ammonium cookies taste good. :)

Age

During my twenties I never thought much about my age except for the period between 20 and 21, while standing in a bar staring longingly at the wine selection.

Now that I'm spending all of my days around people who are 18 and 19, I realize how much of a difference a decade makes. Recently, I had my first bout with Imgettingolditis. Never heard of it? Well, it occurs only occasionally and manifests itself as a sudden flash reminding you *just* how old you really are. Before one of my classes started, one of my classmates says to me "Oh my god. I just had a music class right before this and we listened to that song...(pauses to think of title) YMCA. Did you know that song was about gay people?!?" I couldn't help it. I just cracked up laughing. Luckily, I had just watched Pop-up-Video and could add to her shock. So, I said, "Do you know that song I think I'm turning Japanese?... do you know what that's about? Her eyes bugged and she said, "To think that that's in these famous songs...who knows what *else* is in our songs!" I remember being that naive. :)


Oh yeah, I wanted to share my really awesome idea. We're having a bake sale for the science club I've joined and I didn't want to bake some boring brownies or plain cookies. I've decided to bake some sugar cookies and write the chemical formula for the different polyatomic ions in icing! I'll post pictures because, well, it's going to rock.

Good days

Ahhhh! Oh how I enjoy seeing that "A" on the top of my math test. Woot. I rock.

Welcome!

Hello all -

Welcome to my blog! I decided to start this online journal to chronicle my adventures over the next few years. After a seven year stretch in the real world, I decided to quit my full time job and go back to school. I felt that, though my first degree was interesting, it wasn't the field in which I wanted to spend the next 30 or 40 years of my life.

I am now a full time student studying Biology at a Really Big University in Texas (RBU, for short). Financially, it's a strain and quite terrifying, but I'll try not to dwell on that too much here. Instead, I'll share some of my day to day stories of being thrown head first into math and science while being over a decade older than my peers!

I chose the quote I am still learning from Michelangelo to represent this blog because it's something that I believe in passionately. Even if I'm not in school I think I'll always learn something.