Creative Inquiry

I bet you are wondering what that is. Well for starters it is something that only Clemson has. It's where you join this team and do research. Of course in Food Science, the Creative Inquiry teams are all about food. I thought in the beginning that only Food Science has this, but other majors here do too. In Food Science sometimes the teams focus on more than coming up with new recipes. Actually, I don't think really any of the teams do that. Some of them research the effects certain foods have on teenagers and children. Some research how to overcome obesity. There's even one about the extinction of gingerbread. My academic advisor is doing that one, and I so wanted to join, but by the time I could register for classes it was filled. Anyways, the Creative Inquiry team I'm on, we study the aromas of herbs and spices. That's the general overview. There's more to it. I just thought I would post about this since I met my mentor for the first time today. He showed me and another person on the team the lab, and he told us how it's the number one lab in the US. He also told us how we have things that other Food Science departments at other colleges don't have. I was happy to learn this that they try to be the best here even in the smaller departments. He also told us about what he expected and that he doesn't fail anyone and doesn't expect freshmen to do all the same things as his graduate students. I was happy to find out that I couldn't fail it. Overall I really enjoyed meeting my mentor, and cannot wait to get started. It made me like my choice of major that much more. I'll probably be posting more about this as the semester progresses.

Off To a Great Start

So far second semester has been going well except for the snow. I love snow, but when it overstays its welcome that's when I start hating it. For starters, it caused me to have a really hard time getting to campus on the day I wanted to get there. It also delayed classes and me starting back at my job. I didn't mind classes being cancelled for a day, but I did mind not being able to go to work. It confused me with the times I should go in. Other than that I am liking my second semester of college. I've spent most of it hanging out with my friends and avoiding staying in my room. This is not because of my roommate in case you were thinking that. No this is cause if I stayed in my room all I would have to do is study or watch movies on my laptop to avoid studying. I did get all my work done. I just took my time getting to it, which is a bad habit that I will try to work on this semester. Some other goals of mine this semester are to meet more people and find an extracurricular activity. I also want to keep my blogs going, but that may prove harder than I first thought, since first semester I tried the same thing. Well this is all I'm going to post for now. I will post more later maybe even again this week. Hopefully something exciting happens.


Alisha

New Beginning

So I haven't posted on here in forever. So I thought since it's the beginning of my second semester of college and a new year, I should make my New Year's revolution to post more consistently. It will be for this blog and the other. I hope I stick with it.

Anyways, what you missed of last semester:

Passed every class, but not with the grades I would of liked to have.

Getting along with the roommate.

Met a lot of cool people, and made a couple of really good friends. 

Went to a party that didn't go like expected.

Got sat on by a drunk Australian on the CAT(Clemson Area Transit) Bus. He thought he knew me.

Spent a lot of time walking downtown and renting random movies. 

Loved my job for the most part except for when I was the only student employee there. 

Couldn't wait to come back.

So that's the jist of what happened last semester. There was a lot more but that would take many posts, which is what I should of done. This semester I will hopefully post at least once a week. I am really looking forward to my new schedule. I have English and psychology. My classes also don't start till 12, no morning classes except for a 9 o'clock Biology lab.

So that ends this one, keep looking back for more. 

Alisha