Great Expectations

It was only two weeks ago that Onyinyechi Eke told her fellow graduating Terps that in order to be successful, we had to "do hard things." Unfortunately, I want nothing more than to sit around and do easy things. How will I be judged for what I do and do not do in this summer before I move on to bigger and better things?

Don't know. Sort of don't care.

I took a mini vacation last week to spend some time with friends that I won't see very often after the summer. The weather was great and the outdoor pool on campus was open. Jenna says that the most beautiful people are at the outdoor pool. What she means to say is that almost everyone there is young and has a nice (or at least decent) body they don't mind showing off. Either way, we hung around the pool last week synthesizing vitamin D and photodamaging our DNA.

On Monday, a few of us went to Lake Anna in Virginia to chill on the water. My dad has a grill rigged to our pontoon so we did a little bit of jetskiing and grilled on the water. Later in the afternoon, we ran the prop into something hard and Grillboat had to take the rest of the day off. Sorry, Grillboat. Get well soon <3.

Alas, the real world smacked me in the face this week when I had to go back to work. I love working in the lab though. Also, my Biochemistry paper is up on Pubmed in its full glory, so I'm on a science high. I also have been going out drinking at night this week. This is good because I'm (a) not drinking during the day and (b) not drinking until I'm drunk which means I'm not an alcoholic.

"I haven't taken shots since college!"

--Becca, University of Maryland Class of 2010

--Kyle