I am not doomed to live out my summer in Beloit working for Kerry ingredients! while i am enjoying my internship there, i am ready to move out of the world of food science. Today i was notified that I have been excepted into one of the summer internship programs i applied to, which means that i will be paid to live in Chicago this summer doing biomedical research!!! i am so excited!

I love Excel. For one of my classes we have 72 calculations to enter into a computer program for a lab. Two other students and I got together and made a magical spreadsheet where you answer in all of the unknowns and BAM...out pop the 72 calculations. it only took us about an hour to program, but I feel like it will probably save us all about 10 hours in actual calculations (ok...maybe not 10...but a lot.) I love excel.

I have an official job offer for the summer. Kerry Ingredients, the place that I work for my internship through the Duffy class, offered me a paying job for this summer. though I would rather be in a lab at a university doing something slightly more of interest to me, I really am enjoying my time at Kerry. Plus, it is nice to know that I WILL be working this summer. if I do end up at Kerry this summer, I am going to apply for a summer job at the library here on campus so that i can stay in Beloit and not have to commute here every day from Madison.

Things are getting really crazy. with a little more then a month left to the school year, professors are piling it on hard....or should I say my procrastination has made it hard. In organic chemistry we started our final independent synthesis projects. i am synthesizing NMP, a precursor to Prozac. I did all of the things I was supposed to do according the researched lab procedure, but when I distilled out all of the ethanol at the end I had...nada. luckily we have 5 weeks to do the lab and mine really only takes 2, so next week I just get to start again.

evil winter and soy butter

I am done with the FAFSA!! Now all I need to do is turn in the Beloit financial aid application tomorrow and then I will have reapplied for financial aid on time. Yup.

*$#%! it’s snowing again. Now I love the snow and the cold, don’t get me wrong, but it is March. Tis the time for new buds on trees and new grass and baby squirrels and worms, not time for more snow. Plus I am getting really annoyed with digging my car out every other day.

The cafeteria has soy butter! Now I am not sure if they have always had it, or if I just noticed it, but it is amazing. I am a allergic to nuts, and therefore can not eat peanut butter, and had forgotten what the sweet sweet taste of pb&j was like. But now they have the friendly no-nut substitute, I can have one whenever I like!