Final stretch

I have two-three weeks left before finals and I'm looking down the final stretch of my craziest semester yet.  18-19 credits of difficult classes plus 15-20 hours a week at a lab a week are taking its toll haha.  My eyesight is diminishing, my stomach and chest are getting flabbier, and my wrists are slightly carpal tunnel-ish... BUT I am doing well in my classes.  I am feeling happy and good about life despite being so busy. The one thing that surprises me is how well I am doing in my Physics 2 class.  I haven't gone to lecture or discussion since February.  I just cram and do as many problems a week before the exam and I'm getting 15-20 points above the curve on every exam.  Part of me feels bad because I actually would like to know the material... but I am way too busy in my other classes to fully devote myself... and the other part of me feels like I am cheating death in a way.  I just hope it doesn't come up to bite me in the rear if I don't do as well on the final or something.  

I am signed up for a few classes this summer.  I have to take statistics.  If I take it from the bioengineering department instead of the Math department I get to take two less track engineering courses than I would otherwise be required to take...which is almost a no-brainer-like decision... BUT every single person who has taken the bioengineering statistics course has strongly advised me to avoid it based on 1: the teacher does not know the material,  2: your GPA will suffer, and 3: you will not learn statistics.   Therefore, it has been decided that I, Colton J******, will be taking statistics from the Math Department this summer as opposed to the Bioengineering dept. (I hope the Bioengineering Dept. stumbles upon this and makes the appropriate changes.) As an engineer/hopeful M.D, statistics will be valuable to me when I conduct research, so I would rather learn it now while I am in school.  

Work is going well.  Out of discretion for the people who donate their bodies to science, I don't really feel comfortable blogging specifics about what I do, but I am tasked with processing and dissecting body tissues for experiments.  It has been a very interesting and educational experience!  With the government shutdown, part of our lab may be getting shut down, so it'll be interesting to see what happens. But I was tasked with designing and constructing a table for a large 200+ pound saw out of material we have around lab, so I'll have something to do.  I'm building it out of this stuff called 80/20, its like an industrial grade aluminum erector set... should be a good project.

I've been trying to get into some philosophy in my spare time.  I've been reading Thoreau and Emerson, Gailbraith, Veblen.  Recently I've been delving into some Nietzche.   Interesting guy.  We read some of The Geneology of Morals in one of my classes.  It was a good book, I'd like to read the rest of it sometime.