Hello again

Hello everyone.

I kept this admissions blog last year, so for those returning readers, hello again. for those of you just starting the college search process, welcome!

so here is a little bit about me:

My name is Shanna and I am a junior biochemistry student here at Beloit. I am originally from Madison WI, so I didn't go too far despite having ambitions to go to college on the east coast. What can I say, I just really liked Beloit. My favorite color is purple and if I could be any animal I would aspire to be a pampered house cat. Hopefully I will be able to show you what it is like being a Beloit College student through this blog, but everyone has a different experience


Most of my summer was spent in Chicago. I received a Schweppe Internship this summer, which meant I got paid to hang out in a lab at Rush Medical University doing HIV research. the Schweppe foundation basically gives a certain amount of money to many schools in the Chicago area so that undergraduates can have experiences doing biomedical research in Chicago. Marrion Fass, a professor here, oversees who gets the Schweppe internships at Beloit. This summer I was one of five Beloiters who got the award.

Research was great! I was helping with a gender study on HIV, so I was basically in the lab every day running the same experiment over and over again to see if antibody activity worked differently in males with HIV as opposed to females with HIV (in short....I could go off on the long explanation, but I bet some of you may be rather bored by the topic). The best part was that I learned how to draw blood! I was only drawing uninfected people, so don't worry, it was all really safe.

I also just loved living in a real city. I know that the L is old and needs a lot of repair work done and things like that, but coming from a city with very little public transportation, I loved the public transit system in Chicago. Every day i took it to and from work, and to many other exciting places. I went to China town a few times and even got a hair cut there, and I went to a bunch of museums and other touristy spots. I also just kind of explored my surroundings and the surroundings near the place I worked.

And now I am back at school...I will have to tell you all about it in my next blog.

Good luck with everything, feel free to contact me with questions and enjoy reading the admissions blogs this year.

Oh yeah, I dont know if you watched SNL this week (it is mostly not funny anymore), but Tina Fay and Amy Poehler did the funniest sketch!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnRUKIMegn8



here is a statue I passed on my way to work every day, I love the quote and hope I can live up to it if I succeed in becoming a doctor:

It says (if you cant see it) "one doesn't ask of one who suffers: what is your country and what is your religion? One merely says, you suffer, this is enough for me, you belong to me and I will help you." - Louis Pasteur