This Isn't Goodbye, it's See You Later

My lab partner Bernice and I

The last few days of VSA were a blur, that’s for certain. Wednesday was all putting together research papers based on the data that we had found with our research in the laboratory, which unfortunately wasn’t as much as we had hoped for. I wholeheartedly wish we would have had even just a week’s more time for this program just so we could gather more data and have a more solid idea of what exactly happened with our experiments. There were so many questions left unanswered that we never got time to figure out due to the time crunch. It makes me a little bit bummed out and frustrated honestly (side note: when I told Dr. Sutton this she just smiled and told me I ‘caught the science bug’) We also had our last SOFT night on Wednesday, but frankly I spent it doing laundry and hanging around Hank with a few of my new friends.

Thursday morning was prep for the oral presentations and my class spent about half of it goofing around together in the computer lab in all honestly. We didn’t need long to put together the reports and once they were finished and we had prepared with our groups for the oral presentation we were free to do what we wanted to. Meanwhile, Dr. Sutton called us to speak with her one on one. She told me I did a pretty great job in the class for not having taken chemistry beforehand. That really made me feel really glad because honestly at the beginning I was struggling so much to keep up with everyone else before I got my head down and did some research of my own on the topic in order to at least get up to everyone else’s level.

In the afternoon, we had our presentations and I think everyone did a very good job on their presentations, accounting for our holes and whatnot that couldn’t be filled. Then we had to go to the closing ceremonies, which was honestly one of the hardest moments of this whole program. But my house, A House, won the house cup just like Lizzy really wanted, so that was really great.

Throw back to some pre-class shenanigans ft. Josh and Audrey.

That night there was a party and it was honestly so hard towards the end because it would be the last time we’d all really be together having fun. Afterwards we had the last proctor group meeting and stayed up laughing till midnight and it was really hard to say goodnight. I knew about a third of us would be gone earlier in the morning to catch flights and I sort of was not ready to face that this morning.

This morning was all tears and the afternoon was flying to Chicago and then to Philadelphia. Everything was such a blur after Thursday night honestly. It probably should not have been, but it was.