Damn, it has been a while now.
In the year and a quarter that I have been gone from the
curious corners of the interweb I spent 3 months in Chongqing, China
participating in a laboratory “internship” and finished the year graduating college.
My final GPA is .01 away from my final high school GPA (College-3.59, High
School 3.6). I don’t know if there is anything more depressing then getting a
little worse, but on the bright side I feel like I learned a great deal more.
On the dark side again, it seems like I will be properly bald by 24 or 25. Así
es la cosa.
Now I have to write an awkward post about what this blog is
going to be going into the future. The truth is I never wanted to abandon it in
the first place, but did so because I am lazy. As a graduated college alum, I
no longer have the option to be lazy. Now the terms of the game seem to be
‘float or sink’ and so I have decided to take up the blog once again to aid in
my own survival. I find that if I am able to put my thoughts out there, I gain
a greater internal clarity. In my head my thoughts are a muck; I have trouble
planning a day let alone the rest of my life. By writing this blog I hope to gain
better clarity and develop the language I can use when I talk to people about
what I believe or what my plans are. It is analogous to practicing a
presentation. With practice you get down the better points of your presentation
and perhaps discover some new angles on the topic.
This being the goal of the blog, I intend to write about
three main topics. The first will consist on my general pretentious
reflections. For this I am sorry. The second will be a sort of travel blog;
I’ll write about the places I go (I might do a few retrospective posts on
China). Finally, the third will be a more philosophical blog I have been wanted
to write for a while about science and the areas of biology that I am interested
in.
I’ll keep this one short and sweet because I am currently in
DC visiting with my friends John & Jenny (the just got married), but
hopefully I will get one out with some substance in the next two weeks. I am
taking a bus to New York by myself on Sunday so maybe something will inspire me
over there. For now, smell the dandelions, Summer is Coming.
