boards part 1 are over!

boards hurt. two days, six subject exams. several were a bit brutal. but the good news is that i think i did ok, so hopefully i won't have to repeat any of the exams!

Thank you SO MUCH to Aunt C, Suebee, Tracy, Rusty, Michelle, and Kristen for your words of encouragement - it meant a lot to me to get your messages. And Michelle, if you felt a brain-drain on Fri and Sat, that was just me channeling your alpha waves down to Atlanta so I could draw some extra wattage :)

Saturday evening, I went with my neighbors Aryn and Celeste and a bunch of other Lifers to see Dave Matthews in Piedmont Park, in downtown Atlanta! The Allman Brothers opened. 'Twas a great show. I guess I'm a Dave Matthews groupie - i've seen him 5 or 6 times that I can remember? The first show I saw was at Bates, in 1995 - get this, the event is actually logged on Wikipedia!!!!!!!!! Quote:

• Dave Matthews referred to a concert he performed at Bates in 1995 on the Charlie Rose Show, claiming that the concert "at this little college in Maine" sparked his career^[9].

Wow, do you guys believe that?? How many of you remember that concert? In the gym, no seats, just gym floor. I do believe some of you worked security!!!!!

Today I have just been existing. Trying to take a day to breathe, because it isn't over till the dog sings: I have a quiz tomorrow AM at 7, a project due on Thursday, and two lab finals on Friday. Then, next week, oh boy, final exams!! This is really unneccessarily yucky and really pretty brutal. By means of comparison, after my qualifying exam at MCW, I got to take a week off - then it was summer break, and I was just working in the lab. Kristen says that when she took boards for med school, they were scheduled so that students had a month off afterwards. Not so much for this place, i guess.........

Oh well. Here's another happy thought:




ps i was just perusing the rest of wikipedia's entry for Bates and holy cow look what i found:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newman_Day