Alas!

There is a light at the end of the tunnel! Seeing as this is my eighth week in a row of having at least one difficult exam, I could really use a pick me up. Someone must be watching over my poor soul because today two good things happened.

1- I sent Dr. Cardoso a follow up email from our meeting with my availability to work with the grad students and my specific interests. Our meeting went very well, he was really informative and gave me three options to complete my ANSC 398 credit under him. I chose the research assistant option because I love doing hands on work. I also want to see what research is all about while I'm an undergrad, so this is the perfect opportunity. This also gives me experience and knowledge to be able to eventually create my own research project for James Scholars.

2- In ANSC 298 today we had a guest speaker who worked for a company called AgriKing and she actually does research for them. The best part- SHE DIDN'T HAVE TO GET A HIGHER LEVEL DEGREE. Whew, I was excited about that one. We're always told that there are legitimate jobs out there that you can get after graduation, but we've never really been given tangible evidence of this, at least that's what I think. So it was very refreshing to find that someone has found a reliable, interesting, dynamic, and well-paying job after graduation without even having to take organic chemistry as an undergraduate.