The Honest Palate

10 Notes on My First Week of Pre-Med

(or How I Stopped Having Free-Time and Started Loving the Library)

1. I have a giant zit on my forehead likely from several face-palms during my Calculus homework.

2. Working, volunteering, and taking 4 classes does not leave much time for doing the actual work.

3. There is a LOT of actual work.  There are problems, chapters, homework, recitations and the mounting stress of fitting everything in.  

4. Columbia has about 5 million libraries and I’m working on finding my favorite. Currently I enjoy the science library, at a table near the window overlooking Broadway.  My least favorite is the Math library because it is called the Math library.

5. Peanut butter and jelly travels well in a back pack.  Bananas do not.

6. When do I exercise?  

7. You can figure out who the post-bacs are in any lecture because we’re the students sitting in the first two rows who showed up 30 minutes early to class.  

8. If two trains are traveling at a speed of 30 km/h and a bird is flying at 60 km/h between the trains, how long will it take for your head to explode?  Answer: 5 minutes.

9. Did I mention I’m moving out of my apartment this weekend?  At some point it might be a good idea to start packing.  Moving in NYC is the WORST. It’s the worst.  But UWS, here I come!

10. I would love to be blogging about 5x more than I currently am, but it’s just not happening.  I don’t think I realized how much work I would actually have and the amount of time I would be devoting to my classes.  It’s a lot.  So right now the plan is to find a balance.

I just wish this zit would go away.