A Day Of Science!

This morning, I woke up just in time to see that I had missed my eight o'clock class because I had forgotten to turn on my alarm clock. But that's okay, because today:

I sold plants for two hours on the University mall where every club, organization, and money-stealing scumbag test prep agency sell stuff and hand out flyers. It was freezing cold, but I got to do the Sudoku in today's paper, sell plants to adorable little old ladies (yes, they are professors with Ph.Ds and their very own lab, but they are old[ish] [note proper use of brackets here] and adorable.) with British accents (did I mention she had a BRITISH ACCENT???), meet new people, have my brain picked by someone who wants to set up a research organization in the Liberal Arts college (even though they won't ever be as good as us, because, c'mon, no one can beat Natural Sciences. Yes I am an elitist scientist, thank you very much.), eat THE MOST AMAZING cookie ever ("If you sell plants with us, you have to eat a donut. Or a cookie. Or both. Or a donut-cookie sandwich."), and socialize some with my favorite science geek organization officers.

THEN

I went to a one-hour program that had free food and drinks and advertized itself as an info meeting about research opportunities in the biotechnology and genetics field (Lies! All lies!) but was in fact an attempt to trap unsuspecting bio majors into premed-oriented programs. My intellect is offended. Yes, I am a bio major. NO, I do not intend to go premed. I am studying biology because YES, I like it. NO, I will not go to med school. I will go to grad school for the rest of my life and have a lousy salary and be happy with it because I want to do research for the fun of it and not become a doctor because you get money. So stop asking already. You imposter bio major. Also, FYI, you are NOT allowed to use "I'm Premed" as an excuse for ANYTHING, because premed is nothing more than you signaling your intent of someday applying to med school. So shut up already. I have more classes than you do.

AFTER THAT,

I went to my German class in a different building than where it usually is because we were being filmed for some sort of university promo or other. The classroom was amazing, and it was warm and had WHEELIE CHAIRS WITH CUSHIONS AND THAT LITTLE TABLE THING.
Also, the prof was so happy we showed up that she gave us all A's for the semester.

IMMEDIATELY AFTER,

I ran over to my bio class, which went by in a flash, then to the lab where we redid the DNA extraction and will be working tomorrow (erg. But it's science? Yay?).

AND THEN

I went to a Summer Research Opportunities workshop where I learned how to apply to summer research programs. And how to write good application essays. Yay science!

AND NOW

I must be off to the Japanese Student Fall Festival, which I got a flyer for as I was walking home, and looks pretty cool even though I am not Japanese.

AND GUESS WHAT?

All the food I ate today was free. Even breakfast. Plus, I brought home lunch/dinner for tomorrow. I really am getting good at that college student thing!

SO.

I will apply Step #1 of the 12-step Application Essay Process: Accepting The Fact:
Ima gonna write that baby. Yessiree, I am.