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When your adviser all but tells you you're in the wrong place, that's a bad sign, right? Had a long meeting with him (also my genetics professor) today about classes for next semester and such (basically, I screwed myself by not talking to him before registering for my fall classes because of this stupid major's sequenced classes, half of which are only offered in the fall), and he goes "So, why are you here?" In that way that meant "because you could do so much more someplace else". In terms of being competitive for medical school.

It turns out that because I'm here, I've got to do a lot more of the hoop-jumping shit: the community service, the medical job, the research, etc. if I want to play with somewhere big. While everybody that told me that going to a state school wouldn't hurt me was right in that I'd still probably get in somewhere, that somewhere was one of the other state university medical schools.

But he suggested doing research this semester, so I've got to shop around. It sucks, because I've looked (multiple times, LOL) on the research projects of the biomedical sciences professors, and I'm not that interested in anything they're doing. Mostly because I don't like cells. I'm more interested in the gross pathology of stuff, pharmacology, etc. More applicable to the practice of medicine Alzheimer's mice might be fun to play with, but I'm quite wary of the workload in general--he says that something like 4 hours a week in general in the lab would be equal to 1 hour of actual credit for it. OMG.

O, AND BARACK AND MICHELLE ARE HERE TOMORROW. I've got like *historyshivers* just thinking about it.