I'M AT M.D. ANDERSON RIGHT NOW!!!!!

i haven't had internet access for three days, but surprisingly, it doesnt' feel that weird...lol....i've done MORE than enough reading and research for today, so i think i deserve to blog..another way for me to remember stuff..here goes!

sunday - moved into martel college at rice...it's a very nice place - each room has four private rooms, with this HUGE common room that all four of us share...well our common room is freakishly empty cuz there's uh..nothing to put in there...i got bored waiting for all my roommates to arrive, so after i unpacked, i took off for the museum just to say hi.. which is about a 10 minute walk from my dorm...somehow sibyl persuaded me to help out at this huge hand-painting mural - it's basically these three huge drawings of a hand, and we had to get passersby to stop and put their handprint on these murals...i was working with brian, who seemed pretty bored as well..haha...so we started to "help out" (with the motivation of gettign this mural done earlier)...maaan i bet half the handprints on there were ours..LOL...and then guess who just happens to stop by the museum on that day - troy and his family!!...we got westin and troy to do their handprints, and troy's handprints nearly finished up the mural for us..hmmm.i dont' really remember much of what happened the rest of that day...anywyas...

monday - first real day and we met just about everyone, including some ppl who were in different programs...just for kicks, i'm goign to list out everyone i remember meeting and talkign to...some of the ppl are realy cool...oh and just for everyone who is wondering, YES there ARE some hot guys there....interestingly enough, they're all going to UT...=(..lol ok here goes:

- miriam --> the first half-hispanic jew that i've ever met..pretty cool person, she's going to harvard, and seems to be really really smart
-michelle m.--> is from grapevine ("btween fort worth and dallas"), will be a rice owl next year....and her mentor is reshena's dad..haha. wow weird is that...
-michelle t. --> one of my roommates, goign to washington university next year, is kinda quiet, but really nice
-amanda --> another roommate...is from cypress in north houston, will be going to BAYLOR! next year...at first we all thought that her lab project was somethign to do with the genetics of grasshoppers (ewww)..but apparently the sheet was wrong..haha..i woudl scream if i had to work with grasshoppers
-jenna --> another rice owl, i think she's from san antonio..she works in the same builing as me (yay!) and her phone batteries aren't working
-jane --> harvard girl, dont' know much about her
-whitney --> a roommate, going to UT Dallas, really nice but i don't see her a lot durign the day
-javadi --> his first name is chris, but since there are two chris's, he tells everyone to call him by his last name...also from cypress, and yesterday he got fined or something for having a barely expired metro rail ticket...those ridiculous rules....pretty cool kid, we've cooked up some water balloon fight ideas, and we found out that the huge trampoline outside of martel is insanely bouncy..will be a longhorn next year
-chris --> an insanely quiet kid who is goign to rice next year
-neil--> is from klein...i heard a lot about him from anu last year.i finally figured out that he doesn't REALLY like gardening...haha...and he's going to Wash. U. next year
-celsio--> colombian kid....hahaha i love how there's so many hispanic ppl...i think he's another UTer
-danny--> OMG. this kid is like THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GUY ever...seriously...hahhaha...is from south houston, half hispnanic, plays in band, and is another UTer... see what i mean about all the hot ppl going to UT?....lol...ohh and he's not realy in the King program, i dont' know what he's doing actually
-wesley --> this is THE TALLEST PERSON i've ever met....even taller than troy..7 feet!!!...and he looks taller because he's skinny...we had some nice conversations about drivign stick shift...georgia tech next year
-james --> a spastic but cool kid from strake who knows bobby huebel and frank lee
-brian --> USC med student who we chatted with last night
-parul --> our RA....she's really really sweet
-darsh --> a funny indian guy at med school at U of Indiana who likes to tell us stories about climbing lamp posts when he was drunk..o_O

alrite i'll have to cut this short since i want to get back to the dorms before it gets dark today.....i'm mentoring with Dr. Bing Su in immunology, and i'll be doign detection of antibodies on MEKK3 proteins, and some additinoal stuff...Dou (a researcher in the lab) is showing me how to do a western blot tomorrow....i'm excited!!..later yall!~