A new major and Scientology

I am officially declared….again! I changed my major today. It was only from cellular and molecular biology to biochemistry, so I didn’t have far to go (which reminds me, I need to change my bio information now). If someone had told me two years ago that I would even be thinking of majoring in a science I would have laughed heartily in their faces. How things change. That is one of the good things about going to a liberal arts school though; since you are required to take many different types of classes it is easy to stumble onto something you really enjoy.

Last week I saw one of my professors from last year in the mail room. He gave me his office hours and told me to stop by sometime. I went on Monday and we talked for almost an hour! Since I do not have a class with him this semester, our conversation was mainly just about life. After leaving I felt so relaxed. I love talking to my professors like they are real people, and they have such great insights.

Today in my intro psych class we played this game where you have a stack of 20 cards with famous peoples names on them and you compete against another team in three rounds. In the first round, you try to get your partner to guess the person and you can say whatever you want except the person’s actual name, in the second round you can only use one word and hand gestures, and in the third round you can only use hand gestures. It was really amusing to see people trying to act out people like Jeb Bush, Rosa Parks, and Ian Mckellen. One of our people was Tom cruise, and in the first round I described him as a big Scientologist. That quickly became the identifying word for the next round, but when we got to the acting round the results were…interesting. How do you mime Scientology?