Welcome Home!

Hi everyone and welcome back to virtual Haverford!

Well today was our second day of classes so by now we've all been to everything and are starting to figure out our schedules.  Mary and I are both taking Photosynthesis with Jon (who is really cool and so into plants that you just really want to like them too, but a little over our head with his environmental global warming talk) and Superlab with Rachel and Judy (we're learning how to clone a gene, so we get to pick a gene in the gastrulation pathway of mosquitoes, run PCRs and then transform it into a plasmid in bacteria so that others can work with it in the future).  Rachel and Judy are going to be really cute together, and my lab day only has 8 people in it (Paige and I are the only returners...) but they are requiring us to wear lab coats. Not so into that but whatever.  I'm also taking a Phoenetics class that Maury is TAing and good old Physics, and Mary is taking Critical Issues and another class that is eluding me right now. Alyssa is taking Physics....I don't really know anything else about that :)

Random Thoughts (in no particular order):

1. Andrea had her baby (so yeah she apparently was pregnant??) at 33 weeks, so she's not really going to be around this semester because she's with the baby.  Heard this through Rachel but haven't heard anything at all from Andrea...awk

2. Brooke has a new nephew!  His name is Oliver Bennett and she's very excited obviously

3. Sarah Andrade and Mike Galleta are engaged

4. Swat Sucks shirts came out yesterday and they're pretty funny!  The game is tonight and our seniors are getting their blankets, so the team is hanging out before the game and going together


5. The DC now has hardwood floors in the dining room, which look really nice, and scoopable ice cream at every meal.  That's right, we now have cookie dough and peach yogurt and strawberry all the time!

6. Gummere now has off white walls and black/gray carpet in the hallways.  The stairwells currently have no flooring at all and the stairs that lead toward Hall that come out of the first section have been blocked off because some of the stairs are broken. So that's annoying.

7. If you are ever thinking about getting a tattoo, do not be concerned about the pain, but the itching afterward.  My arm has been itching constantly for days now and it's driving me nuts!! But it looks cool so it's okay :)

8. Cory and I held hands yesterday for an extended period of time.  There's this new TRX thing where you face away from the squat racks, put your foot in the TRX loop and hop toward the platforms and then basically do lunges.  So it's really good, like you definitely feel it and I can tell it'll be good for my squat form, but it's hard to stay balanced on one leg while squatting and holding your other leg behind you. So I was hopping around and Cory was telling me to keep my front knee in line with my ankle and then I was like falling over so he walks over and puts out his hands in front of me and says "Take my hands" as if we were getting married. And then he held my hands the rest of the time. It was an excellent experience overall.

Well, I am off to lift (and see Cory my lover again) so that's all for me right now!  As more things happen I'll be sure to keep you aprised! 

Love from Haverford,
Courtney