anfin’s Blog

Rusty and I will be moving to Gainesville this Fall. I hope the gators don’t eat him. I’m pretty excited. I really felt like University of Florida was a good place for me all along, but I tried REALLY hard to convince myself that I would be at least as happy at Northwestern. Yes, UF doesn’t necessarily have the prestige of Northwestern, but it’s still a really good school, and there are tons of professors there that I would love to work for. I also just felt a lot more comfortable around the people there. At any rate, after these last couple of days, I’m just glad to have the decision made. I truly am THE WORST decision-maker in the world, but after many conversations with professors, family, UF and Northwestern grad students, and members of my Bible-study group, it really feels like UF is the place I’m supposed to go. Hopefully, this decision turns out as well as my decision to come to Furman.

Despite my recent lack of internet presence, I am in fact alive and here’s what I’ve been up to:

• For the past forever, I have been spending my weekends visiting grad schools. I think I’m going to Northwestern outside of Chicago. Chicago looks like this. I know that I’m not going to Stanford. Stanford looks like this. Pop Quiz: (1) Which place looks colder? (2) What am I thinking?
• I am finally using my iPod regularly. It’s nice. What’s not nice is that every time I plug it in to my computer, iTunes decides to welcome my “new” iPod and makes me go through set-up again. Any suggestions?
• I have just won two small chemistry awards, and both of them involve me receiving a personalized copy of the Merck Index which I’m not entirely certain is something I will ever need to use.
• I plan to try out for Little Shop of Horrors at GCT this summer. It’s not my favorite play, but the music’s fun. If I had a choice of who to play, it would be the evil, flesh-eating, world-domination-planning plant. Unfortunately, that particular part is meant to be played by a baritone man. However, this is not necessary to the script, and if I’m lucky, they won’t have a good baritone man try out. If not, I would be happy playing one of the back-up doo-wop singers. In related news, while trying to sing along with the CD, I discovered that I am completely incapable of doing the nasal New York accent of the leading lady Audrey (same accent as Adelaide in Guys and Dolls).
• I just got new Timberland Boots. This make me happy.

So that’s what’s been happening with me in the last while. And now for a post that I actually wrote last winter:

Various observations and such:

• I have great roommates. I don’t think we are going to become best friends for life or anything, but they are nice and considerate people. All roommates should be like them.
• If in the future you ever think to yourself, “I really want to get Sarah a nice expensive gift of some sort. What on earth shall I give her?,” then think no more. A Wii is clearly the perfect gift for any young lady.
• I am taking Intermediate Spanish and not completely failing. This is good.
• My ground floor apartment is great. I might think differently in the winter when I have to ride my bike or walk across campus in the cold, but for now, my apartment is great.
• I’m not sure how long the one working break on my bike will last.
• I have a lot of plays to review and papers to write for my Theatre class. I really need to start working on those…
• I took the General GRE today and didn’t completely fail. I’m only in around the 86 percentile, but the actual scores are about average for the grad schools I’m applying to. Now all I have to do is take the behemoth that is the GRE Chemistry Subject Test. I may die.
• I’m a senior. I’m old.

P.S. I present to you Flowers and Other Plant-Life of Hawaii Part 2.