The Week

I'm currently sitting outside of SML on a bench in order to get internet. We'd been stealing internet from our neighbors' linksys who foolishly left their router unmodified. But at some point on Friday it all changed for the WORSE and here I am trying to figure out how to get internet for our apartment. I want it. Ireally do.
So now you know about the internet dilemma. Belated emails, delayed fb responses, bouts of depression...all the internet's fault. It's even worse when you desperately want to go online because you think you really need to check something at THAT INSTANT only to find your inbox empty. It's kinda funny sitting here. You see all the tourists walk by and stick their hands on the Women's Table and try to walk into SML (which is closed today). You also see students who like me want the internet and can't walk in to the library.

I have now relocated to Madeline's apartment. Yay couch!

I haven't updated about lab. I know that with the previous entries, what might be a probable out come could be something like "I hate my life" or "Why!??" Actually, my response is now "why didn't I do this earlier?" I'm incredibly happy I decided not to take a class. It would have been unnecessary stress and it would have botched up my experience. I'm having a great time in lab. Granted, it's the first week, but there are so many nice things to be happy about! For one, the lab is beautiful. It's well-ventilated, spacious, clean, well-lit. We have big windows that look out onto a green lawn and garden on the back of CRB (Chemistry Research Building=<3). I have my own bench, desk and supplies. Imagine my surprise when I was handed a bound lab notebook. I had previously worked/helped out/just hung out at two different physics/materials labs after freshman year, and I felt like it was all very unstructured. The difference is, of course, that I now have a lot of lab class experience and that I'm probably going to base my senior thesis on my work in this lab. Also, it's Yale.

As too many people know by now, I'm pretty indecisive and sometimes I have to make last minute (random) decisions and hope for the best. My decision to do research this summer wasn't last-minute or random--in fact it was very practical--but I did sort of blindly decide that I should do research at Yale and forget about other opportunities. So I feel really good about sort of stumbling into this situation.

So that's that for now because I'm hungry and getting lunch. Yay! Lunch!