D’Arvit!

This is a bit random, but yeah, a bit relevant at the same time. XD We’re all so busy. How true.

   

In semi-related-why-the-F-would-You-care news, the semester just began for me [and my brother] last Wednesday [the 15th]. And yes, as I checked my credit hours, I can confirm that I’m already a Junior as well! Also, I noticed that I welcomed a lot of changes lately. Like yesterday, I finally found my [now ex-] adviser and had my “Change of Major Request” signed. So today–as I checked my online records–I am officially a Biology: Biomedical Concentration major. I just came from the lab today and I left with a feeling that this is what I really want to do. It’s a great feeling, this sense of purpose.

   
I am just so happy that I was finally able to do it. I mean, this whole “what am I supposed to do with my life” crisis has kept me awake for hours on end. I know that this is what I want. I’ve always wanted to go into Biology and become a doctor. A bend in the road appeared when I saw how much comfortable the life of a pharmacist is. Pharmacists are highly respected in the community as well, they get called “Dr.”, and patients are more willing to consult them [since they do not trust Physician's Assistants as much anyway].
   

Despite the fact that I’m taking a relatively low course load this time around [16 credit hours], I still have four labs this semester [Bio, Physics, Chem, and Zoology], an “Honors” sociology type of class [it's more of debate class and I have a bunch of over-achieving freshmen as classmates, ugh, serves me right for criticizing everyone ], and I decided to do volunteer work [thought it won't kick in until a bit later on].

   
Aside from the change of major [and apparent change of habits], here I am, typing this blog entry on my MacBook. I’m still all psyched up–the Honors College is just too kind! So far, so good, and I’m really enjoying this whole Mac thing. Really nifty stuff. I just realized that my blog looked really different on Safari, but that’s okay, I guess. XD

   
I also tried to start getting active on Facebook [finally]. It’s because I just got [yet another] annoying notification from Filipino rip-off social-networking site Eskwela.com which reminded me about my little self-appointed task of comparing the two [I might write a blog entry on this]. My verdict? Although Eskwela.com’s AJAX inteface, “assignments”, and “Labs” all look like a patched-up attempt at integrating all the hottest AJAX-ified Web 2.0 trends, it really isn’t very much like Facebook at all. Facebook wins this hands down because of its cleaner and more unified interface and apps. Eskwela is still on beta invites only and I hope that they smooth things out before their major release, whenever that would be.

   
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Anyway, I guess that this is all for now. I’m testing out Wordpress on Safari, that’s all. A few hours on a Mac and I’m liking it, so far. No wonder the Mac fanboys keep accusing Vista of copying–it’s all so Vista-like, as it seems. Almost Vista, but not quite.