Fondue and Fon-don't

Posted 11:47 PM, January 21, 2007, by saerni

These last couple weeks have been insanely busy. I had a chance to go to the city last Friday to celebrate Naomi's birthday and get some fondue (yay swiss food), but I didn't even get to leave the house all day Saturday! I now realize that reducing the number course units does not necessarily mean a reduction in your course work!!

At Naomi's birthday we had a great time. We had cheese fondue, chocolate fondue, and raclette (which is my favorite, and equally unhealthy, swiss dish). We also had chocolate fondue and wine. Wine definitely gets me tipsy! It also makes me forget my table manners! It was nice to relax, but we went back home fairly early, which ended up being a good idea since the head start I got on the homework for Atul Butte's BMI 217 class proved useful.

The homework is pretty scary since it was supposed to be released on Wednesday but, because Atul could not get his program to finish running in time for a solution, he couldn't release it until Friday! I had the inital parts pretty much done, but I was getting anxious to finish the other portions. I have used R once before in college, but let's just say I haven't used it since, even though it probably would have been easier, simply because I was so frustrated with it back then.

By Thursday I hadn't completed the assignment yet, and I was fairly ceratin I would be taking a late day (it was due Friday at midnight). While running the program locally it was just eating my RAM, so I basically couldn't do anything else at the same time. I had tested my program on Chromosome 22 (this is the shortest in sequence length and so the fastest) and I let it run while I went to dinner with Alex and David at, where else but the Counter!

David and Alex were suffering from major lack of sleep, and we were pretty much laughing the entire time. It never fails that every time we are at the Counter we have the strangest conversations. This time the topic of conversation was plastic surgery, and more specifically, butt implants. We were talking about how strange it would feel, and how dangerous since it seems pretty likely that it would explode. I was talking about how I had heard about a woman whose breast implants had saved her in a car accident by preventing here from hitting the windshield, but simlutaneously they exploded. So I said "There are so many ways your butt could just explode". Alex and David could not stop laughing (sleep deprivation), but it certainly continued through the entire evening.

My lack of sleep was evident when we were discussing Thalidomide, which had caused problems with limb development in children whose mothers took it during pregnancy, and I could only come with the word "midgetness" to describe what happened. The next day, Alex drew the Nosology of the various disease we had discussed. He had plenty of sleep overnight, so it is just, once again, a demonstration of why we first years at BMI feel that we are truly the bottom of the totem pole as far as nerdiness is concerned. I still think it's pretty funny, so here it is!

On Sunday Alex planned a football watching get together at MSOB. We sat in the student lounge and made good use of the nice TV they put in there. I was rooting for the Colts (only because I was still upset that the Patriots had beat San Diego)! It was fun actually caring about who won! The only unfortunate thing is that it meant I would be rooting against Alex and Nikesh's team. Oh well, it's nothing personal! David left early for a fancy dinner! Oh lala! Everyone's getting as life while mine is quickly fading away!