My Life In A River

While there is TON of stuff I would like to write about, e.g. shells, moral debates, and calculus, but I’ve got like 10 minutes now to do a quick one. So…

My life in a river.

This was a thing I had to do today.  To explain.

1) Heart – my name, when and where I was born.  For those of you who don’t know and can’t read, September 11^th 1991 in Palmer, Alaska.  And my name is Emily.  You should know that.

2) Up – Living is a positive aspect of my life in the first few years, so my river’s going up.

3) Swirl – Elementary school, or school in general, I think that’s a pretty big step.

4) Down – from there my river goes down, and there are mountains because it was a harder time in my life.  Shy little Emily on the play ground with no friends.  Ok, I had some friends, but socialization was a difficult aspect of life for me at the time.

5) Swirl – Middle school I’m calling a turning point.  I joined Science Olympiad and that’s when I knew I wanted to go into Biology and specifically genetics. 

6) Up – life went up then until I had to split up with my friends to go to different high schools (i.e. mountains)

7) Swirl – High school switched my life up a little bit.  I had to find me again and make new friends.  There were some mountains here as well.

8) Up – High school was great not gonna lie.  I had a wonderful time and made the best friends a person could ask for.  I loved Student Government and XC and Pep Band and everything else I became involved in and excelled in school.

9) Swirl – senior year added a new aspect to my life – plans for the future

10) Down – Unfortunately I had a rough senior year.  It was stressful and difficult in many ways.  Applying for college, 3 AP classes and physics and chem, scholarship applications, extra-curricular activities, relationships, and everyone getting ready to leave.  It was a difficult time in my life.

11) Swirl – College definitely marks a step in a new direction.

12) Up – I feel like I’m on the river up now at Northeastern

13) Swirl – Leading to the future, not quite sure where my life will go.

14) Side – This was meant to be an up, but I ran out of room on the paper.  I’m looking forward to the future and whatever it may bring.  My goal as of now is research in genetics.

And now you know what my life would be like if I lived in a canoe. 

I just thought this was hilarious and wanted to share it.  I picked this up at the Student Activities Fair last week.  Since I used photo booth cause I’m too lazy to pull out my camera, all the words are backwards, sorry, but here’s what it says.

“NU & IMPROV’d!”

(Sarah Palin picture)

“The only thing funnier than Sarah Palin running for president!”

“NU & Improv’d first show of the year!

Come see Northeastern’s primere comedy troupe!”

It’s for the improv club in case you didn’t gather that.  I loved the little play on words in their group name, and of course also the Sarah Palin reference.

This is a picture of me after I’ve done the same chemistry problem five times and still don’t have the right answer.  The set up, the theory, the stoichiometry, and the conversions I can do.  It’s just the simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division that gets me.  EVERY SINGLE TIME.  I’m dyslexic I swear.

And finally….

I love my friends.  All of you.  So if you gave me your senior picture and it managed to get stuck in my notebook and transported to Boston with me, you are on my wall.  There are a ton of other pictures and memorabilia scattered around other parts of my room.  So it you don’t see yourself and are like “WHY AM I NOT ON YOUR WALL!?”  You probably are, I just haven’t gotten around to taking pictures of the whole room to show people where I’m actually living.  And if you want to look at my previous post about the calendar, you can probably find yourself there.  If not, SEND ME YOUR PICTURE!!!

So in conclusion, it’s been a great two weeks! I’ll try to find some time this next week to write about the things I actually wanted to write about, but as of now the cards are callin’! Literally, I love nerts!  And if you don’t know what that is… well no help for you there, you just haven’t hung out with me enough.

Miss you all! Hope you are having an awesome life! And always remember to SMILE!

~Emily