LOOK!
No, this isn’t MY breakfast. It’s Andrew’s. And he made it HIMSELF.
It’s a homemade waffle spread with natural peanut butter, topped with banana slices and a drizzle of real maple syrup.
Me thinks my favorite breakfasts might be catching on…
Blog post from our camping trip yesterday coming later today (fun, but man–is it a ton of work when you get home!). Happy Monday!
Yesterday was pretty darn good.
Let’s just say that one of the first things Emily and I discussed when we met up for lunch yesterday was cupcakes. She was jonesing for one, and I knew just the place 🙂 Emily had never been to East Aurora before, so we’ve been meaning to have an ‘East Aurora date’ for awhile now. Thankfully, we were blessed with some of the best weather of the year and freedom from school schedules. We ate lunch outside at Arriba, walked all over the village, got iced coffees at Taste and popped into Vidler’s. To close our fun-filled day, we made our way to Firefly, where I tried the ‘Trevoreo’ and she got the Key Lime. Heaven, I tell you.
As usual, I’m wishing I’d taken photos so I could blog about everything, but thankfully this time someone else did it for me! Emily is also a blogger (and dietetics student at Buff State), so click here to check out our day!
And as if I hadn’t had enough blissful enjoyment of quaint East Aurora for one day, Andrew and I dined on the patio at Rick’s on Main to celebrate my semester well done. If only we’d had room for Kone King on our way out of town…
We’re prepping for a last-minute camping trip tonight with Andrew’s friends from work (which has thrown me into a tizzy that I’m trying to shake off as we speak), and looking forward to spending some quality time together on my first Saturday with no school!
Apparently, I have a much greater grasp on the concepts in Chemistry than I thought….
Yours truly scored the HIGHEST grade in all three sections of Chem 2 with an 88%! (The fact that an 88% is the HIGH grade should tell you something…)
I went into the final with a 101%, but since it’s 40% of the actual grade and no one even gets close to a 100% on it, keeping that perfect score was going to be impossible.
And speaking of impossible chemistry finals… I tied for the HIGHEST score of 153/210 possible points, which equates to a 74%! Again, a measley 74% doesn’t seem high, until you realize the national average is only 55%. Seriously.
In the words of my Chem professor in an email after the exam, I’m “bad ass.” Guess my dads’ parents’ smarts (they were both PhDs in chemistry) found their way into my brain. Sweet! (Good thing, since I have Biochemistry and Organic next…)
A huge thank you is due to Doreen, the chem tutor at ECC, who works incredibly hard to help us all understand the intricacies of chemistry. Doreen, if you’re reading this, THANK YOU!
And don’t get me wrong–I worked my butt off. Like, it’s all but gone. (Not really, but wouldn’t that be great?)
There were plenty of super smart people in my class (like Eric, who totally gets the concepts but can’t do the math, and Sarah–who actually went to high school with Carolyn–who is a whiz on the calculator, and even Bob, who is more drunk than sober, but still manages to “get it” instantly) who did not, or could not, spend as much time as I did studying.
So, I’m a pretty happy camper. With two 4.0 semesters under my belt, the pressure is ON to continue this trend (for lots of reasons, the least of which being my OCD-tendencies) once I get to Buff State, but that may not be a realistic (or even worthwhile) goal. We shall see.
But for now, I’m pretty impressed with myself. After all, in these past two semesters I pretty much tackled some of my biggest fears in life: going back to school (I didn’t know if I could do it) and CHEMISTRY (I thanked my lucky stars I didn’t have to take it the first time around).
This writer-turned-science major surprised herself, if not anyone else.
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