Day Fifteen.

Mr. Ramsey, this one's for you.

Being here at the University of Pennsylvania has been quite an experience and it continues to surprise me with new things everyday. It's been a hard transition, coming from a familiar environment to a completely new one. I miss home a lot but at the same time, Pennsylvania has been a great experience. The class has been challenging and therefore, worthwhile. The people in the class are really interesting. I've met a few from many different places. They're all good people at heart. They're all very motivated to learn which is a good thing; it's refreshing to be surrounded by such people. The professor we have is great. I really enjoy her enthusiasm about the topic she's teaching us. Actually, all the teachers are great. Our lab person is awesome, shes very helpful and to the point. The TA's are good resources also. They teach some of the lectures too.

The campus of UPenn is really.. huge. I'm going to be blunt when I say that it's really a pain to walk from place to place. I suppose it's good exercise but it's just bothersome especially with the hot weather. I love the buildings here and the way they are. They look like they have so much history. I like how the campus is integrated into the city. Although it's hard to get from place to place, it's nice having an Urban Outfittiers right down the street.

This experience with biomedicine has been an eye-opener. To be honest, I have been thinking a lot about what I want to do when I "grow up". It's something that's been on my mind, especially being here in UPenn. Biology was one of the better classes I took in Frenchmen year; I enjoyed it more than chemistry. I think, from being here, I've been thinking a lot more about what I could do in the future. I think I'm starting to think more about medicine and biology, a lot more than I did before I came here.

Today's lecture was one of the more relaxed ones. We went over the spinal chord and it's functions, how it works and then we started watching Gattaca. It's a movie about cloning, I thought it was really interesting. After class, we went to the lab. Lab today was extra long because of some of the procedures that we had to wait for. It wasn't as great because we were sitting around waiting half the time. I sure hope that we get better results this week.

I've been running around doing errands all day. I could fill you in on all the details but I'm sure that it would just bore you (as you do not need to read about doing laundry and taking out the garbage). Yesterday, we found ants in our room! We had to clean it, it sure taught us a lesson about leaving food out.

And that concludes my Monday.