Today is Monday which means that school starts back in a week and one day. It'll be my last first day of regular grade school. This is going to be a year of lasts, I guess. I don't know whether to be excited or sad. Probably both.

I finished my Summer Scrubs thing last Friday. I spent Thursday eating breakfast for 2 hours (not exaggerating) and then spending the other 2 hours "learning" about nursing and physical therapy. One man bragged about how is daughter goes to Bayside as if we were just some "lowly public school kids". One lady assumed we were all going to be nurses and proceeded to brag about her daughter who is apparently part of the Daphne IB program (oOOoOoooOOoOoO exCUSE me).

Friday was excellent, however. I held a heart and poked some lungs and learned about research (this was the only site that even mentioned research) which made me determine that I want to go into research and that I have absolutely no interest in being a doctor unless I go into pathology. But even then I'm not sure I'll want to have to deal with the other idiots in the hospital. Fuck medical school.

They told us (and I don't even know if this is true) that while medical school puts you into ultra-debt, grad school (which you go to to be a reseracher or forensic scientist or whatever) not only pays for your health and dental stuff but also pays you a $23,000 stipend. What the fuck? Since when? Of course, this isn't the reason I've decided I don't want to be a doctor. That would be silly.

I've partly decided I don't want to be a doctor because I don't want to have to deal with the patients all day and also I don't have social skills. Also, it seems boring and hospitals smell gross. I'm pretty sure that I'm more interested in being a huge biology nerd for the rest of my life.

The other people in the Summer Scrubs thing who I encountered really don't seem like they have any sort of business being a doctor. They "want to help people" but really they just want money. It couldn't be more obvious. They had a guy who is part of the research team at USA come and give us a short 10-20 minute lecture on the effects of bacteria on lungs and he talked about how they probably break down certain parts of the cytoskeleton (namely the microtubules) which causes the fluid to build up etc and he also explained other parts of the cytoskeleton and the animal cell and gave us a very basic Biology 101 lesson. None of the other girls in my group understood very well, much less did they care. How do they think they're going to make it as a biology major? Seriously? Idiots.

On an unrelated note, I bought an ultra-cute messenger bag on Saturday. It's on sale at the refinery29shops. You can look at it here if you want. I also bought one of the Steven Alan shirts that were on sale. I'll hopefully get it in the mail soon.

Kashi products are amazing. That picture is of the cereal I eat now. So good. I also recommend the Kashi TLC crackers (they taste like cardboard at first but then they taste awesome) and the Kashi pizza in the frozen section which isn't exactly healthy but since it's Kashi you can at least pretend that it is.