Introduction

Hello everybody! My name is Starr and, as inspired by my friend Reena, who is also documenting her summer adventures, I have decided to start a separate blog because this summer is full of firsts for me.

For people who are stumbling across this blog by chance and do not know me personally, I am currently a pre-med rising senior psychology major with a minor in neuroscience. I'm originally from New Jersey but I currently live in Maryland, so I will often compare my new experiences this summer to my home experiences.

I'm starting this blog a bit late, since final exams ended mid-May. Lemme break down what my summer has looked like since, and I will try to catch us up to present day:

MAY

• 20 - Class of 2012 main commencement
  

  

  Congratulations to everyone who graduated or will graduate this year!

• 20 - Fly to Illinois
• 21-25 - ISNI (Illinois Summer Neuroscience Institute) 
• 26 - Fly back from Illinois

JUNE

• 1 - Drive down to North Carolina for NIDA internship
• 4 - First day of work

JULY

• Er... I'm still in North Carolina during this time...

AUGUST

• 3/10 - Return from North Carolina
• 29 - Begin classes

SEPTEMBER

• 1 - MCAT

Oh yes, you guys will get to hear my awesome stories of how I am studying. (Hopefully, not stories of how I was supposed to be studying and then... didn't...) 

One of my biggest challenges for this will be keeping up with this blog, my personal blog, and also uploading photos. I have gotten extremely slow with photos this past year because it has become a very laborious process. But I will try my best!

Something else I will try to keep up with are my Yelp reviews. I like reviewing businesses (especially restaurants!) and since I am traveling well outside of my home region, I am adding a lot of diversity to my Yelp page. Instead of writing my reviews here, I will link to my Yelp review if I mention a business that I've reviewed.

Thanks for reading this much thus far!

Have a great summer! I hope I can do the same.

P.S. In Reena's scientist style...

Hypothesis: Starr will have a million experiences to write about, with hopes that she will be too tuckered out to have to talk about them. Also, she will actually study for her MCAT after learning some more lab skills. 

Alt. hypothesis: Starr will just fail at everything and spend all her time doing nothing and writing nothing because she is a lazy butt.