i am officially done with my undergrad at UC Santa Cruz! it’s so nice to be done! i had some great memories and met some lovely people along the journey.
me, sarajane, jeana, and audrey freshman year
for freshman year i had a great dorm roomie, jeana, with whom i shared many fun times with. it was a struggle to suddenly share a room, especially with someone i didn’t know, but soon enough jeana and i were having mini dance sessions and playing insane aquarium while eating ben and jerry’s ice cream. i also met one of my still good friends audrey. we shared multiple adventures together like…. walking all the way to morrissey blv for a piercing when the buses were on strike, we also had many capitola mall outings, and constantly went to late night hoping for onion rings and/or chicken nuggets! sarajane lived in audrey’s building and we soon became good friends and shared some tough bio classes together. and now we love to have mall adventures and try on fancy dresses! i had a great group of guy friends who were always down for hanging out and watching a movie or playing basketball. one time a couple of them even drove me to the ER when my stitches of my tonsillectomy came loose. i don’t know what i would have done without them!
the aftermath of the mudfight
the years after freshman year are kinda a blur. my friend heather became one of my roomies and we had some great times together and tons of laughter! we don’t know who started it, but we both started burping quite loudly… and when we went home both of our parents blamed the other roomie! haha! amanda was a great house mate and friend! she was (and still is) always down for a good time and a fun outting! myra and i were thrown into living together for a summer for a church project thing… and we’ve been friends ever since. she (and the other girls i lived with) know me inside and out… and won’t let me get away with anything! bonnie and i had a mud fight once! christine was the housemate who taught me some good recipes that i’m sure most of you have tried! my friend soni and i had multiple classes together, and if it wasn’t for her, i don’t think i ever would have gotten through genetics and physics lab. another friend named amanda became my friend my last year and we shared SO many great times together. be both were saying that we wish we were friends years before. the last couple of quarters i moved in with a bunch of guys and couple of them became good friends of mine and ever since we’ve shared many laughs, adventures, and good meals together. wow, i wish i could list all the wonderful times me and my friends/roomies had. but the list would be SO long.
as far as classes go, i had some good, bad, and even some ugly classes (and professors). i didn’t like the topic of cell bio very much, but i absolutely loved my professor!! she made learning fun! oh man, i never knew someone could love cell bio as much as she did! props to her. genetics was brutal. like i said, without soni, i don’t think i could have passed! it was tough getting to an 8am class. the professor i had for genetics studied drosophila and LOVED them. it was cute to hear about his passion for drosphila. my spanish classes were quite interesting. they wern’t too hard, untill i got to spanish 4. my professor drilled us with grammar! but thanks to him, my spanish is some what understandable. and the ugliest class of them all was human physiology. the professor was very nice and wanted you to succeed and was very knowledgeable in the subject, yet she was tough. the class has about a 30-40% fail rate. and like she said, i never worked so hard in my life to get a C, well i actually got a C+. but i studied day in and day out and never felt like i learned enough for her tests… which seemed impossible!! but in the end, i’ve never learned so much from a class before. thanks Ogren! (i never thought i’d say that). i also took a rowing class a couple times and that was SO much fun!
we made it to one mile buoy
and that’s my experience of undergrad at UCSC. there’s SO much more to say, but who want’s to read every detail?!
ps – thanks to mom and dad for letting me go to a school so far away! and a public school at that! and thanks too all those who supported me throughout the years! my life has been enriched!
my ER rounds ended a few weeks ago and i turned in my mini thesis for the class. i had such a great experience this summer and am super stoked that i got an A for the internship/thesis class. but now, i’m heading back to school at the end of this week. i’ll be tackling human physiology starting friday until christmas. this professor likes to give you a run for your money with this class. as she puts it… ” oh, ya’ll wanna go to med school, well then i’ll give you a taste of what med school is like”. ya, she’s really ridiculously hard… but i know i’ll learn SO much. so wish me luck, keep me in your prayers, and send me some care packages while i plunge into this almost impossible class.
a few weeks after my graduation we had a huge graduation party at my parents house in OC. it was great! we had the UC theme with yellow and blue, the UCSC theme with banana slugs, and me theme with white daisies at every table. we had a whole plethora of family and friends come and it was great to see every one of them. what was even better was to see everyone have a good time with one another! here’s a couple of picture of me and one of my best friends in high school, me and two friends from high school youth group, and the entry decor with roses from my aunt judy.
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