Just Finals Left!

Seven days and counting until I leave the Golden State for the Land of Lincoln (or, according to Wikipedia, the Prairie State). But first, finals!

I have finals in three of my classes --- Biotransport Phenomena, Biomechanics, and Biophysiology. This quarter has been a tough one, so I am really glad that it's coming to an end. In a way, it was both a help and hindrance that I knew I had my internship to look forward to. It was a help because I had a goal in mind to get to, and a hindrance because I started getting lazy and didn't want to work on homework because all I wanted to do was leave! It was so hard to motivate myself sometimes; like last night (a Friday), when I didn't have class but I had two assignments due...and my friends were doing celebratory margaritas. As much much as I wanted to join them, I had a lab to finish :(

I leave for Chicago in a week! I started counting down over a month ago, so it's so surreal that I'm in the single digits now. I'm starting to compile a list of places that I am going to be touristy at and visit when I am in Illinois. Here's what I have so far:

International Museum of Surgical Science (I'm such a biomed)Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio (Mom, I'm saving that one for when you visit)
Magnificent Mile
Navy Pier
Sears Tower Skydeck (It's GLASS!)
The Art Institute of Chicago
Museum of Science and Industry
Wrigley Field

And I'm sure the list will keep growing. I probably need to get a tourist guide. Also, in Des Plaines, where I will be living, there is the original McDonald's. I'm sure going to go to that.....

My list of things to do before I leave keeps getting longer. Finish school, pack, get last minute items (like bug spray. How could I have forgotten that the first time through?), buy some books to keep me entertained, and it goes on and on and on!

But, for now, I'm going to go sequester myself and do some studying on what happens to be the most gorgeous day we have seen in San Luis Obispo all year. Of course it's the weekend before finals. Figures.

Lesley