Signs
This week has been crazy! Already I’ve had 2 research presentations, final papers, exams and tonight I’ll be meeting with a music group practicing for our performance at the ISO Festival this Saturday! The ISO Festival is an annual event to showcase diversity presented by the International Student Organization of Concordia College and if you are around you should come!! It’ll start @ 7 p.m. though there will be food from ethnic restaurants around the F/M area from 5 p.m. (everything is free!).
Despite the hectic schedules I really am enjoying this semester. I am also finding that research appeals to me more still now and even though some gels take close to forever to run (seriously :D) the end result is worth the wait. The research that I have been participating in this semester include myoglobin biochemistry, molecular parasitology of Heligmosomoides Polygyrus and the HP-FAR-1 protein and molecular biology/plant physiology of leafy spurge.
It’s interesting to see how similar the techniques for analyzing each system are and yet how each displays such different charateristics. I’ll write more on the successes and frustrations soon….
Time has gone by so quickly it seems and now we are ever so much closer to the end of the semester and school year. Though this makes it an exciting time with summer research and going home, it is nevertheless also a sad moment having to see off some of my friends who have only come for a year exchange program, or my friends who are graduating from college and off to work, grad/medical schools. I think this makes college life interesting here - the incredible diversity of people that we get to meet, and from whom we also learn much. Thank you friends!