status update

[kodalai]

This week has been very, very hectic. It's essentially midterm week; I didn't have any midterms, but I do have a bunch of pre-Spring-Break papers due. And since this is the week of Sera's spring break as well, I had to prioritize. Socializing with Sera > schoolwork > sleep > fun. And tomorrow I'm going straight from class off on a road trip. I predict I will spend much of the time asleep. I further predict that I will have a lot of fun, and that when I come back I will collapse into a squashed-frog shape and not move for a few days. Then I go apartment-hunting, sigh.

I like my major. It provides for a balanced mix of the subjective, debate-focused class style and the information-transfer lecture-focused class style. Too much lecturing makes the brain freeze up, but at least for my neurobio class I never have homework. heh. And as much as I constantly bitch and moan about Japanese, there's this that can be said for it: I'm almost never bored in class.

Tonight I'm writing about frying rat brains. Something in the textbook is stumping me. Although the general structure of the rat brain is always the same, the specific structure varies from rat to rat, so the coordinates given for a structure in the atlas may not be exactly the coordinates you want. You always have to later go back and take the rat brain apart to make sure the lesion actually went where you want it to go. But this book is saying that because the stereotaxical atlas is never quite correct, you use the data from that histological examination to *correct* your coordinates when you go back and do it again.

Um, wtf. Correct? You can't put the brain back together and lesion it again, y'know, and the corrections wouldn't be any use on other rat brains anyway. So what the heck?

Tomorrow I'm off to Vegas. Too bad I'm not 21 yet.


Livejournal mood seems to think I'm distressed. I'm not, really. I'm under a lot of stress right now, but that doesn't mean I'm miserable. I tend to post in LJ to vent my most unhappy feelings, but overall I really am happy. Something about the campus grounds is doing it for me. Last night I didn't sleep. I took a break from paper-writing at 6:15 and went to watch the sun come up over Gould. I've already seen plenty of sunrises during my high school years, but it's different to really watch one for its own sake instead of just out of the corner of your eye as you get off the bus.

A rising sun is different from a setting sun in ways I can't really explain.

Comments

[windsorblue.livejournal.com]

Eh, there's still fun to be had in Vegas even if you're not 21. It's all about the atmosphere. ^__^ (Take a warm coat, though - it gets cold as freakin' hell out there at night. )

Have fun! ^___^

[kodalai.livejournal.com]

Yeah, so Sera said. Don't really have a warm coat, though, since I never got around to un-altering my trenchcoat from my Roy costume, but I'll take my leather jacket. ^^;