Honestly,
other than schoolwork, this week has mostly been spent filling out
applications. My roommate and I have put
in an application to live in an on-campus apartment next year and I have been
working on my study abroad application. I
am applying for the bio-focused Australia trip in the spring of next year. What could be a better place to take a class
on venom? Nearly every bio major I know
is trying to get in so it will be a pretty competitive application process.
It really
has been an uneventful week. Classes
were canceled Friday because of an ice storm, but that bad weather has
continued and no one has been motivated enough to go outside and do anything
interesting. It’s very gray, cold, and
rainy out. The highlight of my weekend
was watching my roommate slip on a banana peel.
She’s fine, she just wanted to see if they really were slippery. She stepped on it once without incident, but
it got her on the way back and sent her sprawling across the floor.
I am excited
about cell/molecular biology lab tomorrow though. My lab team gets to use a UV crosslinker (a
machine that looks like a microwave) to expose apple extract to UV rays and see
how that affects tyrosinase (the enzyme that turns cut apples brown). I am looking forward to playing with cool machinery
for a few hours.
Have
questions about life at Lewis & Clark? Send me an email at ameliaberle@lclark.edu!