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Labor Day!
Well, it's September 5, 2005, and we're in school! JMU is probably one of the few schools that have classes on today. Some professors acknowledge the holiday and cancel class such as my literature professor, but for the most part all classes are held. So far my classes do not seem like they should be all that bad, but that could very easily change. The only assignments that I've had so far are basically reading my text books. Some of the classes that I am taking this semester are: Epidemiology, Health Administration, Medical Biotechnology, Biotechnology in Agriculture & Industry, literature, and the History of Rock-n-Roll. For the most part all my classes have been really interesting, and my professors all seem very interesting and helpful.
As you know I was here at JMU for the summer completing my Senior Project as well as working on an internship. You have no idea how much pressure this brings off my shoulders. Now the only thing left to do between my lab partner and I is to write our thesis. Our goal is to hopefully have that done by Thanksgiving. If we would be able to do this, our second semester of senior year would almost be completely stress-free. I've been talking to my professor who I worked with this summer, Dr. Raab, and hopefully within the next few weeks my lab partner and I will be able to get back into the Biotech Lab and conduct more research experiments similar to those done over the summer. So as you can see, lots of planning will be done over the next couple of weeks.
The next big decision that I will be faced with will be what I decide to do after JMU. This may seem far away, but in actuality it's not. I still have not figured out whether I wish to go into the job field or apply for grad schools. This will be a huge decision that I make. The past few weeks I have been talking to JMU students who have already graduated and finding out what they recommend, seeing if there is anything different they would have done, and further more finding out how much JMU has prepared for them for this big step they are taking. I plan to meet with some professors over the next couple of weeks to talk about the possible options I have for when I graduate, and then hopefully I will have some idea of what I want to do. Well I guess that's all for now. Hope everyone is enjoying their Labor Day!
Posted by Kristen on September 5, 2005 12:40 PM | Link | Email Kristen
