I know, I know. I've been away for an incredibly long time. I won't waste you time trying to explain away my absence. Instead, I'd like to explain to you why this blog finally has a purpose again.
In the past, this blog was meant to compare to the travelogues of my close friends, who studied abroad during spring of 2012. However, as a busy college chemistry major, it was difficult to find either the willpower or an interesting topic with which to update my blog. Over the summer, pure laziness overcame my desire to tell the world about my life. A sort of extreme lethargy devoured my soul from May into August, prompted in part the high-energy semester that preceded the summer.
But now, after an additional semester of applications (the Fulbright along with nine different graduate schools) and stress, I find myself with news that I'm eager to tell the world. My blog has a purpose.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am proud to announce that it is time for me to travel abroad and explore the world, push myself to the limit, and try not to die while in Europe. Yeah, that Fulbright scholarship I applied for? Totally got it!
So next year will be spent in the City of Light. That is, I will spend a year in Jena, Germany studying under Dr. Hans-Dieter Arndt in his chemical biology lab.
Wow. Talk about amazing! And terrifying. Lots of the terrifying. I'm going to a country that speaks a different language for an entire year. By myself. Away from my family and everything I've known. And I'm so damn excited.
So until I leave the country on August 2nd, 2013, I will endeavor to get back in the habit of writing in this blog. Or maybe simply start updating it, because I really was never very good at that. Either way, blog posts! pictures! and stories! Oh my!
Get excited. This is going to be fun.
I AM GET EXCITED
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