So it’s… December 28?! Yikes! Where did the last three weeks go?? Having finals up until last Thursday definitely threw off my holiday schedule. Thank goodness for online shopping, which was the only way I was able to get anybody Christmas presents this year.
Christmas was a lot of fun, as always. I come from a big Italian family, so holidays are always a little nutty, but a good time. Unfortunately, we don’t get to spend as many holidays together as we’d like, since most of my family lives in Florida. Holiday dinners down there are always a BIG event, complete with aunts/uncles/cousins/second cousins/boyfriends/girlfriends/best friends, and any other stranger off the street we can rope in to coming. Compared to their standard 30+ get-togethers, our fourteen-person dinner was definitely a modest affair.
I have to admit, I really don’t have much exciting news to update everyone on. The last two weeks of school consisted of crazy studying for finals, of course. There is one thing that always bothers me about finals: I don’t feel like many of them are ever really extremely difficult in and of themselves. If I ONLY had my biology final, or ONLY my chem final, things wouldn’t be that bad. In fact, I daresay I might dominate the individual exams! The thing that makes all of them so difficult is that you aren’t just studying for bio, or chem.. you are trying to remember four months of intense material from five or six different subjects all at once. As a result, final exams don’t reflect all the knowledge I’ve absorbed from one semester; it reflects one fifth of everything I can cram in over the course of one week. I think I would someday like to be a professor at a university, so I ponder this a lot.. If I taught classes and abolished final exams, or even got rid of tests all together, what would I do to take their place? What other mode of learning could I employ to make sure my students were taking in the material without putting a gun to their head and forcing them to cram information that they’ll forget a week later? Maybe lots of intense projects, or papers. But that would all take so much time to grade! If I come up with a better plan fifteen years down the road, I’ll be sure to let you know.
Now that I’m home, my days have consisted mainly of… sleeping, eating, watching movies, and playing board games. I feel like such a terrible person for doing so little with my time! Unfortunately, two of the three places I was employed at during high school have closed (a teen club and a banquet hall), and the third one was a summer day camp, so there aren’t any chances to work there over winter break! In short, I am bringing in zero income during my time off. Bad news.
In the event that something extremely exciting should come up, I will be sure to write about it! Otherwise, expect detailed blogs about late-night Cranium marathons and chocolate chip cookie baking skills.
it was nice to get to socialize with the lab in a non-lab setting… and we even managed not to talk about lab once!
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