| | So, a new year and a new quarter has started. I'm pretty happy about the professors I have and also the classes that I'm taking. I just had the first class meeting for my Doctor-Patient Relationship seminar, and I am completely obsessed with what I can get out of it already! The reading is pretty incredible and I've only started a few chapters of it. We're reading a book called The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman. It's basically about a Hmong child, Lia, who has severe epilepsy, and how her parents and her doctors communicate with each other to help her. In the Hmong culture, epilepsy is considered a blessing and only "granted" to special people. This is obviously not what our American doctors think. So, I'm really interested in how things play out between both cultures. You should pick up the book if you have time too.
Unfortunately, I did not do as well as I could have last quarter and now I might be dismissed from the Honors Program. That means the potential research credit that I was looking forward to would be gone AND I would have to drop my seminar, since it's a honors class. Sigh. Then I'd have to find a new class to enroll into because I wouldn't be a full-time student. THEN I'd have to rearrange my research hours too. I'm really disappointed in myself that I could let this happen to me. After squeaking by for so long I should have learned my lesson and started to straighten myself out. But instead I continue to watch my GPA inch closer and closer to that 3.0 line. And even if I was given another chance to raise my GPA to stay in Honors, I would need a 4.0 to be taken off probation. Which is pretty much impossible with the second part of Organic Chemistry as a class. But I can dream right?
I just want another chance. Just one more chance to prove myself. A new year, with a new start. No boy friends, no going home every other weekend, and no more distractions. If I mess it up again, then I know for sure that all of this would be my own fault. And I'll learn (painfully) what my limitations are.
Here's to (another) new beginning.
Cheers.
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