And Then It Was Second Semester

Man, I was doing so well posting at something that at least kind of resembled intervals. Then winter break happened. Well, first thing's first, Happy New Year!

Now that's out of the way, on with the blog post!

So what have I been up to? Well, after a horrendous first semester for my second year for multiple reasons, I decided to take a slightly lighter load this semester. Lighter only in the unit load sense. Classes are just as tough. Second semester physics [E&M], more calculus (sigh), organic chemistry, and philosophy (random, it's a breadth requirement, but it's actually my favorite class this semester). Oh, and this for fun DeCal class called PreMed 101. It's basically like a seminar class where we have speakers ranging from people in the application process to attendings come in and talk to [read: inspire] us. I'm taking a break from taiko as well, but it's allowed me to focus on work a little more and check out a filmmaking club on campus.

I finally watched SHERLOCK by the BBC, which is absolutely amazing and I highly recommend it. All caps for emphasis 'cause it's that good. I also finally got around to watching most of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I wanted to watch it because it's just one of those huge pop culture references, and I remember watching bits of it as a kid when my older brother would flip through channels and whatnot. I never understood it at the time since I wasn't the right age, but I kind of get why it was so popular now. Still, I haven't managed to get through the last season... It kind of got... not so great. Oh, and (lots of TV) I finally got around to watching Firefly as well, which led to me being almost caught up with Castle. Nathan Fillion, man. That guy. And the one thing I just gotta get out there for Firefly other than the usual "Fox is stupid for screwing it over" is "WAASHHH!!!! WHY!?!?!?" And that is a reference to the movie that came out of Firefly. Oh yeah, and Firefly has also re-awoken my love for dinosaurs. As evidenced by this photo:

Random purchase of the month: Dino plushes

Yup, that's right. I got me some awesome dinosaur plushes. What do you mean by "re-awoken" you ask (I don't care if you didn't actually think this, this is my excuse for a segue)? The first job I ever wanted to do before all this medical stuff was paleontology, or as my 3-4 year old self would put it, "a fossil finder!" I later learned the actual word for that, and was one of those kids that tried memorizing a bunch of dinosaur names and learning facts and stuff... Can't remember any of them now though. Fun fact, there are fossils in our clock tower, the Campanile. Our paleontology department uses it for storage.

What else have I been doing. Right, I started doing papercraft again. I made a Guy Fawkes mask a while back in November. I stumbled across a Pokemon papercraft website that has a fantastic amount of papercrafts. I've made Slakoth:

And a Jigglypuff:

And I've got a Teddiursa in the works. It's currently just a head with its limbs scattered about around it, which is a bit unsettling as it is this cheerful looking teddy bear head that's just sitting there. But I'll finish it over the weekend hopefully. Gotta finish my work first. Darn you school. Infringing on my papercraft time. :P

Anyway, the aforementioned unfinished work is calling. I suppose I've taken a long enough break. I'll come back tomorrow and write about this awesome speaker that came in last week for my PreMed DeCal. That class was pretty cool.