Semester Recap

WELL. It's been a while. I guess I finally actually have things to be doing up here at college. And I have a bunch of different fairly big things that have happened to try and cover here in one post. So the biggest thing is that I have ovarian cysts. Yeah, it's pretty awesome. And when I say awesome I mean painful. I was up in James' room one day just hanging out and watching him play Guitar Hero II, when I realized I was in pain, but thought I just needed to use the restroom. So I did, but as I was walking back I just became completely crippled in pain. I went over to his bed to lie down, but I was just in complete agony. I mean, I've been in pain before, but even breaking a bone didn't compare to this. So of course he starts freaking out, and I'm trying to calm him down, but it's hard to do between the moans and tears, so he calls his parents. Oh, and this is all around 1:30 in the morning. They decide I should go to the emergency room and his dad comes to campus and picks us up to take us there. I'll leave out all the fun details about how they found out, but after a few tests it was determined that I had an ovarian cyst on my right ovary. Lovely, I know. That was about a month and a half ago. Now, in order to cope with said cyst, they've put me on birth control, thus completing the parallelogram that is my suite, as we are now all on birth control.

Now to school. I'm taking 14 hours this semester, which you'd think would be a bit of a break, but it's not so much a break. I'm in Computer Applications in Atmospheric Science, Calculus 2, English 203, the official title of which is 'Introduction to Literature', and then Atmospheric Thermodynamics. So, all the classes require a lot more time than they should, and completely outweigh everything that I had to do for classes last semester. Calculus is a serious pain in the neck. Literally. We have about 45 homework problems to do every week, even on test weeks, and it hurts my neck to have to bend over the book and paper so long to do all the homework. Computer Programming is annoying because it's at 9 am on Tuesdays and Thursdays and lasts until 11 with us doing nothing but programming for 2 hours straight. I am soooo not going to be looking for a job like that.

I'm still in Meteorology, in case you hadn't realized from my classes, but I'm having doubts as to whether or not it was really what I was supposed to do, but it's too late for me to try to switch to anything else. Specifically, if I switched, I'd go into Biomedical Science. I think I might be more suited for doctoring. I'm good with people and I'm great at science, and I feel like my science abilities are going to waste in Meteorology because all we do is math. Yeah, I didn't think it would be all math, either. And it's not like I'm going to get a second chance at this. If I was supposed to be a doctor then I'd need to do it this time around in college. That's the kind of thing you only get a shot at doing once. I don't have time to take another four years of classes, four years of medical school, and then four years of residency. If I stopped Meteorology now and hopped into BIMS, I wouldn't have a real life until I was 32. Part of the reason I picked Meteorology in the first place was so that I would save myself those extra 8 years and be able to have a family and a job at the same time, but now I'm not so sure it was even the right choice. And I have this fear that I'll lose my ovaries from the cysts and not even be able to have children at all and thus a huge reason for not becoming a doctor shouldn't have been an issue. Is it making sense? I can't articulate things very well today, which is no good because I have a paper due at 5:30 today. Oops.