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

Feeling Awful!

I feel awful right now! It's not that I'm sick. I am really not liking life at the moment. This one is short, I just felt like I had to at least write that. So bye!

It's Been a Long Day...

My day began like all of my Wednesdays, with me ignoring my alarm, and ending up finally waking up later than I meant to. I always wake up before my alarm, and when I notice that there is still time to get some extra sleep, I take it. Sometimes I completely ignore my alarm, but this is kind of a hard task to accomplish since my alarm sounds like the fire alarm. I know this because we had the fire alarm go off on us at 4 in the morning. Later that morning, my alarm goes off 7:45, sounding oddly similar to the fire alarm. So most days, I wake up panicked that it's the fire alarm, and that my residence hall is about to burn down with me in it, cause I didn't wake up. I do know that it's not the fire alarm, so most days I do manage to ignore it, and wake up 30 minutes after I wanted to. at least it's not an hour, or I would be in big trouble. I have already had that happen to me twice. One morning, my phone kept going off because I had a text message. From who? Who else but my mother, of course! She sent me a text asking me how I was doing, at 6 AM! Most of the time my phone is on silent because it has a light show sort thing going on that I usually notice, but I had decided to leave it on vibrate, why, I don't know. My phone has a weird vibrate mode. It does different variations for different things, like a call or text or email. For email it only vibrates a couple of times then goes off. But for text message it has this extremely loud vibrate that doesn't stop till you check it or after a minute. It's really annoying. So that's what I heard one morning, when my mom, being the considerate person she is, text me. She now knows, I am not wanting to be woken up at 6 anymore.

Anyways, back to what I was originally writing about, well today was not my best day. First off I'm still sick, but it's more like allergies or something. I do have a headache at the moment though. So I didn't want to get up this morning to go to my 9 am Chem. lab. I am not loving my chem. lab. It's ok, at least the people in my lab group are ok, but the rest not so much. After that I had my chemistry lecture, so ironic I know. Then I had my math class. To let you know I go from 9 in the morning till 2:15 with no break except to get to the next class. So I didn't get lunch till after 2. Then at 4 I had my communications lecture, which I also had an exam in. Fun! Then at 6:30 I had my math exam. Again, fun! Both weren't too bad, but I felt like I had not time for anything but class and exams. I ate before my math exam, or else I would of had to wait till after, which would of been after 8. I truly hate my Wednesdays and Fridays because I don't have like any break. It's just classes back to back. It's my own fault, I created my schedule. It wasn't like it was really flexible. The times were already set, and by the time I got to register, most classes were full already. I just now feel like I've gotten a break, and I also just realized that I need to prepare my outline and notecards for the speech I have to give on Friday. Oh, will the fun never end?!?!  Well I'm going to stop my rant about my wonderful Wednesday's.

Alisha

I Just Love Getting Stuff in The Mail!

It does seem like that every time I get an email from my post office here at school that I have a package waiting for me to pick up, I get really excited. I know what it is most of the time, but I still get excited about going and getting it. I know others do too. How do I know this? Well it's not because I see people walking around with a box from the post office in their hands smiling all the time. No, it's because I work at my post office. Yep that's the job I got. I started a couple of weeks ago, but I only work 2 days a week, Tuesday and Thursday. So I haven't been working long. I'm a clerk. I basically give people their packages, bringing smiles to their faces, and I sell postage and mail things off. It's actually been kind of interesting. I have made some mistakes, which is to be expected since I just started. Today was interesting. I have a time card that I have to put in this machine to clock in and out. Well, I went to clock out for my lunch break, and the machine ate it. Really it ate it! Actually it just got stuck, but that thing seriously hates me! It takes forever for it to actually stamp my card. I have to stick it in there multiple times, and last week it hadn't clocked me out for the week before, so it had me working for 3 days straight! But one of the directors fixed it for me. Well about my time card being stuck, it's still stuck! Yea the main director tried to get it out. When I told her about it, she said that it had never happened before, so of course it had to happen to me first. Again, I tell you this thing hates me! Well when she tried to get it out, she stuck another time card down in there. Why, I don't know, maybe to see if it could still work with mine in there. Well that just jammed mine further in there. Before u could see the top of it, and if you had extremely skinny fingers, you could of probably gotten it out. Well now you can't even tell it's in there. Another weird thing is that they don't have a key for it. You know a key to to open it up and possibly get my time card out. So for now it's stuck and everyone is having to write their time down. I hate that they have to do that, but it's not my fault. I didn't tell the stupid machine to eat my time card! So today was just another exciting day at the post office. I did actually get something in the mail, and I got to get it myself. Yep, I'm special. I hope Thursday is just as interesting. Really, I hope that my time card is back in its spot where I usually put it. So this ends my rant about my wonderful, never boring, job at the post office.

Adios,

Alisha

Something is Wrong, But I Don't Know What

So I haven't been feeling well lately. I have no idea why. It's basically been all summer that I've felt awful. I started being constantly thirsty, but I also have stopped eating very much. I don't know if that's a symptom or has to do with something else entirely. The other day I had the worse stomach ache, and couldn't really get out of bed. The clinic on campus is closed on weekends, and I really had no way to get to anywhere else, seeing as I don't have a car, and my roommate, who has a car, was gone to the football game. I was fine staying in my room. I took some medicine, watched some movies, and basically slept off whatever was wrong with me that day. I did call my mother, and she wants me to go to Redfern, our health center here at Clemson, whenever they are open again. I don't really have the time to be sick or to go get checked out. My schedule is fully packed each day. Maybe that's what's wrong with me, the stress of being in a new place and not doing the same thing everyday like I use to. Who knows? I just know that over my whole summer I didn't feel well, and now it just seems to be getting worse. I want to be my somewhat normal self again! I don't know what could be wrong with me. I have a lot of different things going on that don't really seem to add up. Maybe I should just stop complaining. I don't think complaining about this will help me at all. At least I felt a lot better today, but who's to say I won't feel just as crappy as I did Saturday. Argh!!!! This is just frustrating. Well hopefully I will start feeling better, or at least someone can tell me what's wrong when I go to Redfern when it's open again.

Adios,

Alisha