Ok maybe it's not kindergarten but another school year is upon us and nothing quite says awesome like the realization that you are 23.5 years old and starting you're 19th consecutive year of school. Forget "Super Senior", I'm in the 18th grade as one of my Masters student friends pointed out at a reception for the new crop of BME grad students on Monday.
So far so good through my first week of classes. I only have 2 - CE 201 Continuum Mechanics and ME 265 Scanning Force Microscopy of Biopolymers - and both will be interesting and potentially can be directly applied to my research which really is an accomplishment for grad classes. I have also come to the conclusion that I will most definitely take more CE classes than BME classes as a BME PhD student but that's what happens when you decide to be a real engineer.
The summer is officially over on Monday with the Labor Day holiday - which for some reason is NEITHER a holiday for the Duke University so I will be in class at 10:20 am NOR for me in lab since for the second year in a row, I have lab cleaning. But to celebrate the end of the summer here's the list of books I have read in no particular order, all of which I 100% recommend to anyone:
Bringing Down the House, Ben Mezrich
Band of Brothers E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest, Stephen E. Ambrose
The Steel Wave, Jeff Shaara
The Prestige, Christopher Priest
His Dark Materials, Phillip Pullman
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass
Women's Murder Club, James Patterson
1st to Die
2nd Chance
3rd Degree
4th of July
5th Horseman
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
The Hot Zone, Richard Preston
Mayflower, Nathaniel Philbrick
The Other Boleyn Girl, Phillipa Gregory (currently reading)
Currently on the shelf:
The 6th Target, James Patterson (Women's Murder Club)
Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
We're Just Like You Only Prettier:
Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle, Celia Rivenbark
Sadly, two of those are still on the shelf from last summer.....
Time to ride home in under a mostly sunny sky for the first time all week!
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