OMG I'm NUTS. It's almost 1 in the morning. I've spent the last 3 or 4 hours looking up Japanese summer language programs (found one in Hokkaido that looks good... hopefully for next summer), science internships in Japan (didn't work out too well, most of the programs are for graduate work, ugh, graduate school XD ), science/health internships around MA/CT (might do summer after graduating, or switch around the Japan and the internship, dunno), and figuring out if it's feasible for me to double major in Asian Studies and Chemistry. And actually, it's doable? I am in for 2 years of pain, tho, if I do this.

The only things left for my Asian Studies major are Japanese III both semesters and 2 300 levels to complete the 40 credits. Taking Anthropology of Modern Japan in the fall as an elective in the course and the general requirement for social science. Actually my last general requirement, I think. Roxors.

So. That's 4 Japanese classes. I'll be taking 5 though because Anthro is a 200, bummer. Chemistry is 36 credits, but I need a year of calc and a year of calc-based physics (painful itself I hear). So 52 credits. I have 4 out of the 7 required chem classes, and first semester of calc. Need 3 more required chem, 2 300 levels, 2nd semester calc, and year of physics. I was already planning a year of physics this year, but non-calc based. And taking Drawing, but I can replace that with Orgo III (I'll be taking it with Lucy, so we'll suck, but we'll suck together!) to get one of the 300 levels. Well, writing it all out will take a year and a day, so here's a breakdown.

junior year/fall
Japanese III
Anthro
Physics I
Orgo 3 (counts as 300 level)
Independent Study (counts as 300 level)

junior year/spring
Japanese III
Japanese 300 level
Physics II
Calc II
(MCAT!! DIES)

Japan summer program?

senior year/fall
Japanese IV
Japanese 300 level
308 Chem
Stat (I'm a retard and should've taken this earlier. Oh well.)

senior year/spring
Japanese IV
325 Chem
315 Chem
Sociology

Health internship?


I am such a glutton for punishment. I KNOW I will be so dead after it's all done. That is, if I'll be able to schedule this. Both Japanese classes take up the 1-4 hour block on Tuesdays and Thursdays, which allows me to take physics and orgo, thank goodness.

Jeff will probably hate me 'cos I won't be able to drive over to see him on the weekends. XD A ha ha ha.

It's soooooooo hot. It rained a lot today. But it's still hot. It just made it more humid. Arrrghs! My arms are also sore from working out yesterday. I r weak. So glad I went with my mum to this mini-info session on how to properly use the machines back in Germany. I see random guys in there (probably live around here) and they use it all weird. Or too fast. =( And I'm evil and set everything to 1 because I'm so small, ha ha ha ha ha. Didn't get to do my cardio today, tho. This alum came to visit and she talked with me about stuff she's going to give me for the Sistahs site and then we went to dinner across the street and her boyfriend and her told me lots of stories. And grad school stories observed/heard from other people, since neither of them went to grad school. Because the stories are horrible. XD So Harvard people work all the time, but they're miserable. She had gone to a panel of graduating students and they told all the negative aspects of grad school... at a recruiting event. So that's wonderful. And then how there's an extra layer to add upon work of politics. MIT people work all the time, too, but they're happy. MIT does more applied research than the basic research that Harvard does, and MIT stresses working in teams more than Harvard, which stresses individual accomplishments and being prima donnas. And Yale is still mean to women who are chemists. =( Except two professors... I forgot their names. But they're both minorities who had a tough time getting into the profession, so they're nice to everyone. =D And then stories of Darthmouth (where her boyfriend went) and what happened when they visited each other's campus. He was called "random man" because there weren't many men on campus. And there still aren't, weeeeee. When she visited, all the Darthmouth women would be like, "You aren't a Dartmouth woman," since they all somehow knew everyone and she didn't like that. And she thinks the Dartmouth campus is like a prison. Jeff had applied there, I didn't remember that until he told me today. They ignored him. I'm glad he didn't go there. He has a sort of love/hate relationship with WPI. I think he'll like it a lot more once he gets some projects done.

Anyway, I am very glad of the alum network that MHC has. The CDC is going to hopefully put online a database of alums (even tho they have something like this on their computers? Not sure how it's different), but I don't know if it's all disciplines or just sciences. But pretty much all of the alums are more than happy to network with students.

Argh! I have been trying to download Hundred Stories nonstop for the past three days. It's still at 70%! I have a T1 connection, give it to me in a day! It's rather frustrating as I had about 50% of it downloaded before, but I tend to shut down my computer at night. Because it gets hot. I'd put in more fans, except I can't, 'cos it's a Gateway all in one. But that's okay, I still love my moo-cow. I leave it off as much as I can, but I'm such a computer dependent dork. Oh well. But yeah! So then when I tried to continue the download, it froze at 7% and wouldn't download anymore. *shakes fist*

Also, I am stupid. I've missed some people's entries because they were locked and I wasn't logged in when looking at people's pages. I will take care not to repeat this mistake from now on.

Okay. Now it's 1:30. Time for bed. I will be dead tomorrow.