It's nice to be back! I mean who really needs free time to catch up on good TV shows, going out with friends and just working 40 hours a week? I mean, I was totally bored. Really, I did do some cool stuff over break. One, I bought a MacBook laptop. This is a big deal because a) that was all the money I had b) I've been a PC girl till now and c) it's a freaking laptop! Now I can look as cool as my classmates with my slick white MacBook. I do really like it though. It is cute. Another thing I've accomplished during the time off was starting boxing lessons. I've joined the Uppercut boxing gym in Northeast Minneapolis for a few weeks and am taking classes there. It's seriously about the most intensely fun thing I've ever done in my whole life. It's aggressive but you really have to think about what you're doing. I have by no means really 'gotten' it yet but it's so fun I'll keep it up for sure. It's about all I think about and all I want to do. Maybe someday I'll spar...
CLASSES! It's started again. This has been one of those semesters where my schedule has depended on external factors. I've ben trying to get a field experience set up. I was offered a position at the Minnesota Dietetic Association where I'd get to be a part of actual legislation and policy processes. And proper nutrition is something I feel very strongly about being accessible to everyone. Then, I have an interview with MOAPPP (Minnesota Organization of Adolescent Pregnancy Planning and Parenting) which is in the sexual health realm and a true passion of mine. I am really interested in both but I feel like it's going to end up being a logistical reason I have to make a choice. I (somewhat stupidly) decided to take 9 credits this semester while working 32 hours a week and getting an internship.
The 9 credit situation was sort of accidental but I have to run with it. I need to take Community Health Assessment (and want to because it might be the last class I have with my whole cohort) and Biostats. It's too early to quite tell how they're going to go but Biostats is not a class that facilitates a whole lot of discussion but I know the info will be relevant. The exciting thing that happened to me yesterday involved my friend Ann that always finds interesting lectures to attend. She invited me to a viewing of a movie called 'Homo Sapiens 1900' which is about the history of Eugenics. It sounded really cool so I went and it was such an interesting subject and discussion!! It can be taken as a Public Health course or a history course. So I decided to take it. It is working in conjuncture with the exhibit at the Science Museum called 'Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race.' It seems like it would be most relevant to take this class now. So, this semester, I have 9 hours of class of Thursdays. I will have to remind myself that it was totally my choice. I think the Eugenics course will be so fascinating that I won't even notice, though.
Wish me luck on my internship decision next week! I'm off to Memory Lanes blowing alley tonight where they set up a little stage on the lanes and bands play. Tonight it's the Hasbeen.