Strange Night

Alright, last night was quite strange. At around 10 o clock two of my friends went out for a night on the town last night, I believe that they went to a party. At around 1 o clock they both came back to the dorm (miraculously they made it back to the dorm, up the elevator, and even to the bathroom), to throw up in the bathroom. My friend, it was his first experience seeing people actually drunk to the point of throwing up. He got one of the Frat boys on the floor to come and see what was up, because one of them was actually throwing up on himself and the floor to the bathroom stalls. I was standing in the distance, and my friend began to panic because he though they were both poisoned. Another guy (who gave up drinking for now two months) came out and checked the scene out, he wanted to use the restroom but of course, with two of the stalls blocked, it would feel strange using the restroom with someone on the floor.

So for a while one of the guys was throwing up and then going in and out of a daze. I believe he fell asleep for a bit. We meanwhile focused out efforts on the friend who was more respondent and cognitive of what was actually happening. We helped him get up from the floor and guided him to his room and set him in a chair. We gave him a trashcan and what not. He was alright for he fell asleep a bit afterwards on the bed. This morning he remembers a large part of what happened.

So now for the other friend who was on the floor. We left him there for about 30 minutes, and then we began efforts to move him to his room. Two other people came back soon thereafter from a party that I had been invited too. They were both fairly conscious and one was a bit on the keen edge cause he started to yell at us for leaving him on the floor, there was a bit of a disagreement there but it all worked well cause they waited until he became a bit more conscious. Unfortunately the friend wasnt able to stand, so two of the other people began efforts to make him stand and guide, or perhaps carry him to the room. It took a while but we made it. I cleared all his art stuff out of his room and they plopped him on the bed. I believe they even put him under the covers or something.

Next we began efforts to clean the restroom because of the fact, we would all get in trouble for having the bathroom with stuff on the floor, and not only that both people have the smell of alcohol on them so that would further bring trouble since drinking isnt allowed in the building. So we teamed up and cleaned. Of course more people came back who were under the influence, they fell out on the floors of their friends rooms as soon as they made it back to the building.

So all in all it was quite a strange night, for it kept me up until 3:30 in the morning several hours pass my Midnight bedtime! But it was all good, I just hope they dont think of going out to drink anymore anytime soon, for it is a real inconvenience's for everyone, for we couldn't even use the restroom for hours.

April Updates

April opened up with perhaps some of the most amazing news.

I am actually going to be in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Summer Scholars Program. the programs is an excellent program that promises to teach the selected students who range from freshmen to seniors wonderful things about research. Depending on their experience, they can gain anywhere from a basic understanding and first hand view of how real research is carried out to the point in which they are really working on the project as if it were their own. The program awards the students in it a $3000 stipend, opportunities to attend several seminars, attendance at a conference, and lastly the ability to stay on campus without paying anything at all. The program is held at Virginia Commonwealth University and the students get to work with VCU professors as being the people who they are mentoring under. Furthermore, research projects range from environmental science to hardcore in depth molecular oncology.

So as you all are now informed, I will be in this program for my summer. So I get at most two weeks home from the year for a summer break and then I come back here for the majority of the middle of summer, and then I go back home for about two more weeks before reporting back to VCU. Quite an interesting plan for the summer break.

In other news, classes are continuing to go full steam ahead. I have to continue to work on several of them to bring my borderline grades back up to the A level. I hope to that within the next few weeks as classes now come to a close. And finally, Cell Biology is becoming more and more of a worthy challenge. It is quite easy once the material is memorized but understanding it is a bit hard. I have so far managed to get an 85 on both tests in it and that is with studying for about 24 hours for each test. One more test to go.

Weekend

• Went to Aletheia Harrisonburg, it was a great and rockin service for Easter (Resurrection Sunday)
• Got about an inch of snow on Friday night in Richmond, major snow of the year