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
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