Graduating

I'm a little bummed about it. Graduating from college is the first step to getting old. Though it involves many good things, such as:

- people finally start respecting you more in terms of maturity and intelligence
- insurance companies respect you more
- people shouldn't consider you being married and a mom to be so weird
- finally get to learn about human science in med school

But of course,

- you can't get away with being immature for the heck of it
- I'll be joining the crowd of those who say, "oh, undergrad..."
- no going back.

So, graduation. We'll post a photo or two later.

I'm getting a bachelor of science in Chemistry with a concentration in Biochemistry. I'll have 128 hours, a ~3.995 (think I should be able to escape the minus this semester), and a collection of honor cords. I will not have an honors scholars medal or summa cum laude honor cords thanks to my thesis dedication falling through. I will have AED honor cords, PhiDE honor cords, Golden Key honor cords, and magna cum laude cords.

I'm going to make myself look good going out. It will be a real dramatic contrast to my HS grad photo, which is awful. I still had no idea how to do my hair at the time and wasn't into make up yet. It will really show how much I've grown up over the past 4 years, even if only on the outside.

Another quick note on growing up and taking responsibility- It's time for us to plan our 09-10 budget, a budget that will have implications on our finances for at least 20 years. Looking on the brightside though, as soon as it's over with we can officially start househunting. I couldn't think of a poll idea- I'm going to make one based off of that thought.

crazy nursing student

http://pageonekentucky.com/2009/03/12/explosive-problem-for-the-university-of-louisville-nursing-student-expelled-for-myspace-blog/

Gosh the people who blog and comment on pages like the one above are well-read.

Anyways, I suppose for the most part I just want to acknowledge the existence of the lawsuit against UofL for expelling a student for her myspace postings.

This nursing student would probably be torn apart by a good psychiatrist or psychologist. She clearly gets a rise out of preaching the controversial and extreme, it's completely juvenile. I read her most recent blog post on the pdf file attached to the article above. Talk about a sour, clueless girl. Why the hell is she in nursing school.

One comment I saw mentioned UofL was probably afraid this chick would go Va Tech on campus. That is totally understandable, considering the attitudes she expressed on her blog. I found her fb page and saw some of her pics, she's a euro-goth nerdy chick, all into snakes and rats and crap. But the thing is she has this sweet face. A face that you could totally see in nursing.

UofL totally screwed up. This chick is a b* for trying to get bank off of our public university, with all of the budget crap going on. Yeah, they probably should reinstate her. However, are universities really not allowed to kick students out based on the moral opinion of the school's mission statement? If it was a private university, would there be a problem? This isn't a discrimination issue, after all, and its not like she was arrested or fined for practicing free speech. After all, universities may tolerate free speech, such as KKK people coming onto campus to promote themselves, but that doesn't come without plenty of cops to monitor the situation. If they had the option to have a cop escort her around campus, maybe they'd feel more comfortable about reenrolling her after becoming aware of her extremist opinions.


UofL didn't have to expel Yoder, of course. By posting her crazy opinions on myspace, she was making a huge risk, the posts were public, for crying out loud. Once the school faculty read the posts, there went her potential LOR writers. And now that the media knows about her case, how hard will it be for every potential employer she may have had to realize they definitely don't want this woman as their nurse. After all, who says employers can't deny hire because of moral opinion. And even if she did get hired somewhere, how long would it be before one of her patients were like "her name sounds familiar..." There's no point in her trying to finish her degree now. She seems to like blogging, and having a publicized name definitely could help her if she wanted to go into writing. She doesn't need UofL to do that, I hope her case gets dropped.

Twitter

Because the media and SNL have highlighted Twitter like it's the best new thing that everyone is doing, I made an account. I wasn't sure what it was. Now I see it is just a social page dedicated to status updates. I think the idea of constantly updating my status could be kind of fun....but I'm pretty sure I don't know anyone on there. I checked for Jenn, Darren, and Chris but I couldn't think beyond that who I might know on there. I looked for people I thought would be old enough or internet-savvy enough to use it (;D). For now, I'm following:

"iJustine" Some chick with youtube videos that popped up in relation to IJ's baby videos
Shaq
Bruce Moore, my realtor
The Onion
and Seth Rogen.

I got server overload pages a couple times. Twitter may fall apart as fast as its come about.

IJ videos

So we have taken a handful of videos with IJ. Not a lot but maybe half a dozen since the hospital videos. The videos from the camcorder are in a format that I haven't figured out how to upload them to FB or youtube. I can only open the videos in a special program that came with it, and every video has like 3 files.... it's strange.

However, I took a couple videos with my simple camera over the past few weeks. I'll probably use it more until Jeff researches a way to convert the camcorder videos.

IJ cooing and getting excited with his dangly toys.

IJ palming his feet, getting excited about his balloon.