Hey everyone! I’m back on campus and ready for the fall semester! Even though I’m totally ready to talk about classes, clubs, and how excited I am for this semester, I’ll rewind for this entry and discuss this summer.
For May/June/most of July, I participated in Undergraduate Summer Scholars, which allows students to work with a faculty mentor on a research project. I developed my proposal based on a paper that I wrote for a Victorian literature class, and I’m still writing and revising my project. Once I finish writing/deleting/revising/procrastinating/repeat, I’ll be able to use it as a departmental honors project for English (I think…?), as well as for my honors thesis.
After that, I spent a lot of time doing gymnastics, coaching gymnastics, studying for my gymnastics judging test—yeah, I lived in the gym—and going through some vocab for the GRE. For some reason, the more vocab I studied, the lower my verbal score was on the practice tests, and the higher my quantitative score was. Go figure. I know that I’m probably the math-iest and science-iest English/German major ever, but you’d think that studying would have the reverse effect. Fortunately, I took the GRE right before the semester started (and yes, it went very well), and I’ve moved on to more exciting things.
Like the Lit GRE. And personal statements. And statements of purpose. And job applications. And reading. And writing. And attempting to read and write in French (fail). And going on retreats with huge groups of people. And recruiting new freshmen for gymnastics. And meeting everyone in my dorm. And general freaking out about things to write, things to read, places to go, people to see.
I did say that I’m over-involved and over-committed, right?
Welcome to my last semester at Miami.
Also, since there are probably new readers this year, please, please, please leave some feedback about what you'd like to read/learn about Miami/Honors/Harrison/English/German/Pre-Med/Grad school/Gymnastics/The meaning of life.
