Happy early Thanksgiving everyone! I am so excited to break for Thanksgiving next week; I am going home to Philadelphia and bringing one of my friends with me! I can’t wait to cook some really good food and have a relaxing break from school. Class registration was the other day, and it was so bizarre registering for my graduate level courses! For my first official semester in the master’s program, I am scheduled for 12 credits: a class called Mentored Research and another called Advanced Neuroscience Seminar. While 12 credits is the least amount of credits I have taken all together at Hopkins, I know it will be a lot of work; the great thing about this program is that it allows me to dedicate as much time as I need to my research without taking other classes. So even though I am only registered for 12 credits, it is entirely up to me how much time I spend working. This program is great because it lets me experience how it is to be a research scientist, and is the perfect stepping stone to either medical school or an MD/PhD program.
While I await Thanksgiving break next week, I have been doing a couple of home projects! Last weekend I ordered and got Pho mix (for those of you who don’t know my obsession with Pho or have never tried it, Pho is a Vietnamese noodle dish in a broth with a bunch of meat and basil- it’s AMAZING) and made my own. I was pleasantly surprised with how well it turned out, and can’t wait to keep making my own. Pho is a dish that takes a lot of practice to make well, and it was great to get a seasoning mix that took the guesswork out of making my own pho!
Another project I recently did was make a scratching post for my cats! I found a blueprint for a cat scratching post online and made it with some friends! The cats love it and it is the most adorable thing to see them perched up there!
Tony the cat helping me make measurements for the cat scratch post.