Backpack + books

Bill got me this Dakine Mission Backpack :

to bring this much books next quarter, and my old backpack won't fit, and without waist belt, the weight of my books will hurt my shoulder muscle.

From top to bottom :

Binder with lab paper

2 note books (graphed and regular)

2 statistic textbooks

Nursing Assistant textbook

Human Anatomy Atlas

Human Anatomy & Physiology textbook, HARDcover !!!

Besides books, I still have water bottle, pencil case, and lunch box ! LOL

My backpack will weigh more than 8kgs !!

science class

This is my first quarter, back in school since 2008.

I am taking science classes, bio and chem, and never in the history of my life, I study this much !
And learn as much as well.

This time I attend the class, I listened, I review, I do exercise, and I actually understand it.
Instead of memorizing.
And it feels great.

In Bio we learn so much about cells and genes, and genetic information, and genetic disorder.
and its great (and kinda scary in some ways)

Learning about genetic disorders makes me wants to take out some eggs and just freeze it, and safe it till the time to have baby.
The risk of having baby with down syndromes is high if you are under 20years old and over 35 years old.
Better to make babies now, woman ! or else, make sure u get amniocentesis test.

IT is because the control system on the cell reproduction cycle tends to become bad as you are older.
Thus if something goes wrong in your cell (and baby are made from cell !) and during the cell division, it can just pass through the checkpoint.
And you may have a baby with some problem.

If your checkpoint is still good, working very well, the chance is that you will have miscarriage, if you have a baby with genetic problem.
This is just the way of nature to make sure that the baby that is being born is generally healthy, and will be able to survive.

So, should I safe some eggs ?

2 weeks of school + 1st exam !

I've been in school for two weeks.
I think in the last 2 weeks, I've been study much more than 3 months of school at Indo.
I find myself in the library a lot of time, and still occupied with my book at home and in the bus.
Bill said "ease up with the study, girl!"
But I can't.

I am so concern about this school, and I want to make sure that I'll do good.

I have a study group, as I wrote in the previous post, her name is Morgan.
Last Thursday we spent so much time together, studying for our first exam.
We study from 2pm - 8pm.

And Friday came !
We met early in the morning, and study some more.
Test starts at 10.40, the first one is Bio, followed by Chem,

I was really nervous with the Bio test, because I didn't feel confident about my bio (all those organelles!).
And I feel pretty good with the Chem (I mean, I felt like I know what to do with the math)

Result is back today, and I scored 87% on Bio and 85.9% on Chem.

Pretty good, but not as good as I expected, which means that I should study harder !

Study Group

My classmates are talking about forming a study group.

I'm so into it, I just don't see myself studying together in a group with more than 4-5 people.

Study group should be small (for me!), and should consist of people with almost the same kind of personality.

At least, shouldn't have anyone who is super dominant on the group.

The shy (me :) ) will feel left out :p

So, this morning when I arrive at the science computer lab, Morgan was there.

We sat together, working on our homework, and she ask me to form a study group together

And of course I said YES !

I'm so glad that someone is asking me, because I won't dare to ask anyone.

I'm still pretty shy, I am still trying to understand people's culture here.

I don't want to offend anyone, or u know, to make people felt like I'm doing something wrong to them.

Thus other than offering a helping hand, I tend to observe (which seems like I'm very passive)

We start our study group today after we took lunch at Taco Time (good burito, big portion !)

And she said that she will take me with her when she wants to get her tattoo touched up (chance to get a new one for me ?!?!?) 

I made another friends,

I'm happy :)

1st week of school

It's been a week, and it was fun.
I mean, I got pretty worried and overwhelmed with everything, but I feel good.
I am still worry about being able to understand completely the lecture, and not being left behind in the class, but I think so far I'm doing pretty good.

My daily schedule changed.
I woke up at 630am, get ready for school and get out from the house at 8, wait for the bus, and arrive at school around 9-ish.
After class, I will wait for the bus, and arrive home around 1600-ish, usually I'll eat, then do homework,
get the dinner ready, eat dinner, clean up the kitchen, shower then homework + study till around 11/
Then sleep.

The bio and chem class aren't as scary as I thought it would be.
I hope it will stay the same way till forever with all the subjects !

And this week I got  the First Year Experience Class (FYE), a class which you have to take if this is your first time going to college.
I've been to college before, but I still take it, since I think it will be really useful to know how the school system works here.
And actually it's pretty fun, I get to know people and make friends :)
One of my new friend is Kellie.
She loves to travel ! She is really nice and she is really good artist, she drew amazing sketch ! (I saw her FB, we're FB friends now  :) )

Well, week 1 went really well.
Better than what I expected.
Hope it will stay like this forever, and hope my study spirit will always be high-up as it is right now.
I felt like I've never study this much in my life.

Phew !

Time to sleep now.
As tomorrow is weekend !
YAY !!

Good nighty

Preparation to go back to school !!!!

I'm going to school tomorrow !
My 1st day at school, a beginning for +/- of 4 years intellectual torture will starts tomorrow !!!

Regardless that I'm so nervous and worry about whether I'll be able to catch up or not, I'm super excited about it !!! :D

Things I've prepared to go back to school :
1. Mental, and good spirit !! Study hard for brighter future ! YAY !
2. School backpack Jansport classic super break backpack in Navy Dreamweaver *mad love!*

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3. Marmot Precip Rain Jacket in Purple, need this because it rains a lot in Seattle

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4. Camelbak water bottle 

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5. I got calculator, note books, text books, lots of pens and highlighters, eraser, colored pencils,

post it notes, and hundreds zillion of things needed for school.

Finally, school started !

YAY !

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School starts soon ! :D
Next week I will be back to school.
It's nothing serious, really.
It's only the pre-requisite classes which I have to take in order to apply for the Diagnostic Ultrasound (DU) program.

The classes are :

Biology& 160- 6 credits
Chemistry& 121 - 6 credits
Environmental Science 295 - 3 credits


And the schedule for this quarter :
MWF 10:30-1:20pm S-310
TTh 9:30-10:20am S-224
Group A lab: T 10:30-1:20 S-312; Th 10:30-1:20 S-216
Group B lab: T 10:30-1:20 S-216; Th 10:30-1:20 S-312
(Students in Group A and B will be determined in the first week of school)


In order to apply for the DU program, I will need to take 9 pre-requisite classes, and it's all should be done by winter 2012.
In addition for these classes, I want to take the Nursing Assistant Certification (NAC) program, on winter 2011.
So, yeah, so little time so much to do.

Oh, did I mention that most of applicants who got accepted into the DU program has the average of 3,4 GPA, and their average GPA on the Human Anatomy & Physiology (HA&P) class is 3,7 ?!
Competition is really hard, in fact, from a little over 100 applicants in 2010, only 20 of them got accepted.

From what I heard (and I can imagine as well, in fact I have looked into some of the books!) the HA&P classes are brutal hard ! Especially the HA&P 2 (good thing, there are only 2 of HA&P for me!)

I believe this is the time to study study study !
And forget about anything else (but husband and Muffin, of course :) )

Me as a nurse ??

I am thinking to go back to school and study as a nurse.
Yesterday I saw on University of Washington, they have a program to study to become a nurse in 2 years !
It's called Accelerated Bachelor School of Nursing program.
Well, u have to take the pre-requisite program and so on, but still, learn to be a nurse in 2 years ?!?
That's so cool.
Being a nurse means I'm closer to the world of Medical Health.
The world I'm interested on.

So, I'm doing some research about it and thinking about it quite a lot lately.

And what's so cool about it is that once you are a registered nurse, u can get a Master of Nursing and one of the specialties is : Nurse Practitioner & Nurse Midwifery (Aaaa.....!! Yaya !)

So we'll see which path I will take....
We'll see...

Happy CNY & Happy Valentines Day !

 

Happy Chinese New Year !

祝你们身体健康万事如意年年有余天天快乐

Happy-Success-Happiness !

This year we didn't do ANYTHING for CNY.

On the day time, we took the dogs out to the park.

Below are some pictures :

 

Muffin and Bill

 

Harry, a mini collie,he is Chase's (my colleague) dog who stays with us from 10-16th of Feb.

Yay !

In the evening,

We just ate dinner, then we ride bike to see people lid up their firecrackers and fireworks.

Around 23.50, we ran outside to experienced the war zone, since there are soooo many firecrackers and fireworks, it was super duper loud.

It was scary too, because some people just put their firecrackers and lid them without really paying attention to safety.

And when we went out last night, it was snowing ! :D

Snow flakes...We were so excited (I was !)

And Today ??

We practically did nothing.

Just went out for dinner at Korean Restaurant. Happy Valentine's day ! <3 <3 <3

It was raining and gloomy and cloudy. COLD !

I read so much about diagnostic ultrasound class, I even email the college to ask some questions about the program.

So, I might do it. :)

I have an interest on it. We'll see.