Tuesday, October 16, 2007

First "Official" Post

Well, it's been quite some time since I've had a blog... about two years in fact. It's crazy how the time flies! Tomorrow I'm actually registering for my last semester of undergraduate classes :-0

If you really want a list of graduate schools that I'm applying to, here you go:

Johns Hopkins (1)
Georgia Tech (2)
Duke (tied for 5)
University of Pennsylvania (tied for 6)
NCSU/UNC (34)

I'm applying to their BME Ph.D. programs, so these programs should keep me busy for the next 4-5 years. I also got an email from someone at Carnegie Mellon (24) urging me to apply for their BME grad program, so that's a tentative school to add to my list. The numbers in the parenthesis are the Newsweek 2007 rankings of the graduate BME programs at those schools; I'm pretty impressed that NCSU is already ranked at 34, considering our program is only ~4 years old (and actually UNC isn't ranked, but the BME graduate program between NCSU and UNC is joint, so they're good by association :-P)

Other exciting plans for my senior year, for people I haven't been keeping in touch with (sorry!), include going to Ecuador for Spring Break 2008! I'm part of an Alternative Spring Break trip and we're going to be doing a Habitat for Humanity project. I'm so excited, especially considering I haven't really traveled to too many exotic places (I don't think Canada exactly counts as "exotic"). There's also a tentative plan to go to Europe over the summer- I've got to enjoy my one free summer before going for that Ph.D.!

In other news, Keegan and I are going to celebrate our 1.5 year anniversary soon! We're trying to figure out where we'd like to go out to eat, so if you've got any good recommendations, let me know! Mmmm...

Well, I suppose that's about all for now... besides, House starts soon, so I should get some more work finished before then!

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