I had my wisdom teeth extracted - all three of them. I ended up with dry sockets which were immensely painful. My dentist prescribed Percocet which put me in a fantastic stupor. While in the midst of mist, I decided to open the overstuffed, large envelope that arrived in the mail for me. The return address read, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE). I pulled the papers out of the package and began reading. The haze in my mind made me unsure of what the words said. It was something like this: Dear Tiffanie, We are pleased to award you with the Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship. You are one of 100 awardees out of 1700 applicants...
I won! I won! I won!
01 August 2005
20 June 2005
update
It's summer now. Last semester flew by so fast! I made the Dean's list and I just found out that I have a full ride next year. =) I'm still waiting to hear from NOAA Hollings Scholarship. I hope I get it!
I'm currently doing research and enjoying my summer. I just recovered from Poison Ivy over 30% of my body and I'm feeling much better. Tomorrow I start field work again since my Poison Ivy rash started. I'm excited and can't wait.
Short update, but it's nap time.
I'm currently doing research and enjoying my summer. I just recovered from Poison Ivy over 30% of my body and I'm feeling much better. Tomorrow I start field work again since my Poison Ivy rash started. I'm excited and can't wait.
Short update, but it's nap time.
25 January 2005
Week 2 of classes: All of my classes are interesting and at times boring - especially aquaculture.
I've had some new opportunities come up at school. When I find out more and get things set in stone I'll ellaborate.
My parents purchased a car for me. I'm really shocked and grateful and excited. =) I'm picking it up this weekend in Des Moines.
The weather is nice and warm today. I wish it really were spring instead of just a tease. ;) Ah well, it'll be here soon enough. Speaking of spring, I think I'm going to Seattle to visit Casey for spring break '05.
O-chem help session is on Tuesday/Thursdays at 5pm in A&S. I need to get going so I don't miss it.
~t
P.S. I ID'd my first "new" bird today by song without the help of a cd or field guide. The bird was a black-capped chickadee. I also heard a song of another bird which I recognized from my bird call cds, however, I could not remember the name of the bird. I'll have to keep studying. =)
I've had some new opportunities come up at school. When I find out more and get things set in stone I'll ellaborate.
My parents purchased a car for me. I'm really shocked and grateful and excited. =) I'm picking it up this weekend in Des Moines.
The weather is nice and warm today. I wish it really were spring instead of just a tease. ;) Ah well, it'll be here soon enough. Speaking of spring, I think I'm going to Seattle to visit Casey for spring break '05.
O-chem help session is on Tuesday/Thursdays at 5pm in A&S. I need to get going so I don't miss it.
~t
P.S. I ID'd my first "new" bird today by song without the help of a cd or field guide. The bird was a black-capped chickadee. I also heard a song of another bird which I recognized from my bird call cds, however, I could not remember the name of the bird. I'll have to keep studying. =)
16 January 2005
Morning Chaos
I finally fell asleep last night around 1:15am. I abruptly awoke at 4:47pm to drunken idiots brawling in my neighbors yard (they had *another* party). One particular guy was yelling, "I didn't fuckin' say that! What the fuck did I say?!" over and over and over again. I almost put some clothes on and took Jersey, my black Great Dane outside, to ask them to stfu and leave immediately. They also walked all through our front yard. Too bad I cleaned the landmines out of the yard 2 days ago, it'd been rad if they walked through the shit of 2 Great Danes. >:) It would have been frozen anyway but still! I should have saved the 2 paper grocery bags full of dogshit so I can ignite them on my neighbors front porch after last night. *sigh* oh well...there's a steady supply of it.
I finally got up around an hour ago after waking again at 7:30am to let the dogs out and call Bethany to tell her that I was too under the weather to go out hiking to prebait the raccoon traps, plus it snowed last night and raccoons don't like the snow, so it'd be senseless.
I'm starting to feel anxious about school starting. I need to make a list of things to do before Tuesday and actually DO THEM instead of procrastinating. So yeah. Time to get moving.
Banana Pancakes here I come! Man, I <3 Ernie's!
I finally got up around an hour ago after waking again at 7:30am to let the dogs out and call Bethany to tell her that I was too under the weather to go out hiking to prebait the raccoon traps, plus it snowed last night and raccoons don't like the snow, so it'd be senseless.
I'm starting to feel anxious about school starting. I need to make a list of things to do before Tuesday and actually DO THEM instead of procrastinating. So yeah. Time to get moving.
Banana Pancakes here I come! Man, I <3 Ernie's!
15 January 2005
Long Overdue
After months of procrastination and finally giving up on Movable Type, I decided to use blogger.com after a friend suggested it (this was months ago but okay, I'm here now). My blog will be hosted by blogspot temporarily until I can figure out how to get it on t1f.net.
Yay for blogging! Hopefully I can find the time and/or motivation to update it and treat it kindly.
Winter break is on its way out which is great because it's been a long break. Things have been up and down for me lately in several aspects of my life. Hopefully this new year with bring good changes and leave things on the up and up.
I was diagnosed with clinical depression on Tuesday. I've known that I suffer from depression for some time but just kept putting it off with all the stress that is school and research and tutoring. In hindsight school was stressful because I couldn't retain information and concentrate due to depression. I also have severe anxiety sometimes which makes my mind race a zillion rpms about a zillion different things, which is NOT productive. I would sometimes go a week without sleeping or go a week oversleeping and not going to classes. So, with this information, I spoke with my doc and she prescribed Zoloft. This evening I was catching up on a friend's blog and found that this describes me nearly perfectly: "dfw has a short story called "good old neon" where the character talks about this feeling- about what its like to be good enough to shed the mechanistic shell of what a thing really is, to be able to see and comprehend it on a deeper level, but not be able to execute fully on demand. or ever." I'll have to read Good Old Neon in my spare time. So, I'm unsure of my expectations of Zoloft but I do hope it lets me finally be me again. I also hope it can relieve my anxiety. I really need to meet some people here and establish a few close friends. Living in a completely new and smaller city has definitely been challenging but I'll pull through somehow.
In other news, I finally met Andrew, Darci and Stephen in Lawrence last December. The boys cooked an amazing curry dinner (and an obscene amount of rice!) for us girls and we all had wine and watched The City of Lost Children. Well, I slept through most of it (I think) and at times I wasn't sure if I was awake or dreaming...what a weird flick! They all were as I expected them to be and it was refreshing to share some good times with witty, intelligent, funny, musically-inclined, interesting people. It's nice to have met 3 new friends and I hope to be able to spend more time with them in the future. I wish we all lived closer.
I've been a tad frustrated lately with the work I'm doing for the Raccoon/Parasite research project. The undergrad research grant application is due on Feb. 15 and I have no idea what I should focus on or what is feasible. Ryan (the grad student heading the project) has no idea what exactly he's doing for his PhD. Currently we're collecting baseline data but I have no sense of direction. When I analyze the slides for parasites, I have no idea what I'm looking at and how in-depth I should be. A lot of the time I cannot distinguish between plant material and parasite eggs. I guess I should be grateful for being able to participate but I hate not having structure and plans! ;) It also provides great exercise and I get to spend a lot of time outdoors in the forest. On Friday I got to hike a lot and prebait traps so we can start trapping raccoons next week. It was terribly cold but still enjoyable.
So, with winter break nearing its end, I guess I should talk about classes.
Organic Chemistry II: 9am MWF
Ornithology: 7am T (3hr recitation), 11am TR (lecture), 3pm W (3hr lab)
Aquaculture: 12pm MF (lecture), 12pm W (2hr lab)
Natural Resources Management and Water Quality: 2pm MWF
Also, scholarship applications are due Feb. 1 and I've not started any of the essays. Hopefully this isn't indicative of how the semester is going to turn out! I guess I'll use part of Monday to get through some of the essays. OH! I applied to the Honors College and should hopefully hear from them soon. I've also been eyeing the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. I'm a tad confused because Mizzou's Honor College lists it as a scholarship for Graduates? Hmm. The deadline for it is Feb. 1, heh, I won't be making that one. I've got 53 credits completed and after next semester I'll officially be a junior. I still have A LOT of hours to complete so applying for it next year still won't be too late since I'll still have ~2 years left.
Damn, this turned out way longer than I expected. I guess what I was trying to say is I hope 2005 brings lots of changes to my life and SOON! I'm excited to see where this road takes me and who I'll meet along the way.
I'll end with a quote:
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
-"Citizenship in a Republic," Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
Yay for blogging! Hopefully I can find the time and/or motivation to update it and treat it kindly.
Winter break is on its way out which is great because it's been a long break. Things have been up and down for me lately in several aspects of my life. Hopefully this new year with bring good changes and leave things on the up and up.
I was diagnosed with clinical depression on Tuesday. I've known that I suffer from depression for some time but just kept putting it off with all the stress that is school and research and tutoring. In hindsight school was stressful because I couldn't retain information and concentrate due to depression. I also have severe anxiety sometimes which makes my mind race a zillion rpms about a zillion different things, which is NOT productive. I would sometimes go a week without sleeping or go a week oversleeping and not going to classes. So, with this information, I spoke with my doc and she prescribed Zoloft. This evening I was catching up on a friend's blog and found that this describes me nearly perfectly: "dfw has a short story called "good old neon" where the character talks about this feeling- about what its like to be good enough to shed the mechanistic shell of what a thing really is, to be able to see and comprehend it on a deeper level, but not be able to execute fully on demand. or ever." I'll have to read Good Old Neon in my spare time. So, I'm unsure of my expectations of Zoloft but I do hope it lets me finally be me again. I also hope it can relieve my anxiety. I really need to meet some people here and establish a few close friends. Living in a completely new and smaller city has definitely been challenging but I'll pull through somehow.
In other news, I finally met Andrew, Darci and Stephen in Lawrence last December. The boys cooked an amazing curry dinner (and an obscene amount of rice!) for us girls and we all had wine and watched The City of Lost Children. Well, I slept through most of it (I think) and at times I wasn't sure if I was awake or dreaming...what a weird flick! They all were as I expected them to be and it was refreshing to share some good times with witty, intelligent, funny, musically-inclined, interesting people. It's nice to have met 3 new friends and I hope to be able to spend more time with them in the future. I wish we all lived closer.
I've been a tad frustrated lately with the work I'm doing for the Raccoon/Parasite research project. The undergrad research grant application is due on Feb. 15 and I have no idea what I should focus on or what is feasible. Ryan (the grad student heading the project) has no idea what exactly he's doing for his PhD. Currently we're collecting baseline data but I have no sense of direction. When I analyze the slides for parasites, I have no idea what I'm looking at and how in-depth I should be. A lot of the time I cannot distinguish between plant material and parasite eggs. I guess I should be grateful for being able to participate but I hate not having structure and plans! ;) It also provides great exercise and I get to spend a lot of time outdoors in the forest. On Friday I got to hike a lot and prebait traps so we can start trapping raccoons next week. It was terribly cold but still enjoyable.
So, with winter break nearing its end, I guess I should talk about classes.
Organic Chemistry II: 9am MWF
Ornithology: 7am T (3hr recitation), 11am TR (lecture), 3pm W (3hr lab)
Aquaculture: 12pm MF (lecture), 12pm W (2hr lab)
Natural Resources Management and Water Quality: 2pm MWF
Also, scholarship applications are due Feb. 1 and I've not started any of the essays. Hopefully this isn't indicative of how the semester is going to turn out! I guess I'll use part of Monday to get through some of the essays. OH! I applied to the Honors College and should hopefully hear from them soon. I've also been eyeing the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. I'm a tad confused because Mizzou's Honor College lists it as a scholarship for Graduates? Hmm. The deadline for it is Feb. 1, heh, I won't be making that one. I've got 53 credits completed and after next semester I'll officially be a junior. I still have A LOT of hours to complete so applying for it next year still won't be too late since I'll still have ~2 years left.
Damn, this turned out way longer than I expected. I guess what I was trying to say is I hope 2005 brings lots of changes to my life and SOON! I'm excited to see where this road takes me and who I'll meet along the way.
I'll end with a quote:
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
-"Citizenship in a Republic," Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
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