Just back from lessons - yes, LESSONS! Haha .. crashed yx's class, it's about neuro nano-technology. How implants are used for Parkinson's Disease and the possibilities of using brain-controlled prosthetic hands. Pretty interesting, but those animal experiments are really gross. I was explaining to yx that we do not treat Parkinson's using invasive techniques - L-Dopa has always been, and is still, the first-line treatment for Parkinson's since drug therapy is so much safer and does not run the risk of surgical morbidity and mortality. Anyway, the lesson was pretty interesting. Before that, she had a tutorial, so I proceeded to Lake Mendota on my own.
It's the largest lake around here, and so totally covered in snow that someone made a snow angel in there! I didn't realise the snow was so deep though, so I tried to step into it and promptly went Poof! Landed on my butt, waist-deep in snow. So embarrassing. There was a passer-by at that time so to save some face, I pretended I was actually sitting on the snow and taking pictures.
Visited the Red Gym and Memorial Union too (that's where I'll be taking my bus back to Chicago's O'Hare airport on Sat morning). And watched her ice-skating lesson in the morning ... I can't skate now cos of the lesson, but will be skating on Fri night! Waiting for yx to come back from lab in 1 hr's time, then we'll be going to West Towne Mall. Tom Yam soup tonight, then going to Lucky's Bar and Grille just across the street for supper drinks.
Weather's very fine today. No snow, little wind, people were walking around in t-shirts or shorts (notice I said "OR" - you can't wear T-shirt AND shorts even in this "fine" weather). The University's interesting though, you never get to see throngs of people walking around in NUS. Here, hundreds of students actually walk about in the streets and take buses to different buildings. And they have arcades, shops and pubs in their school buildings.
Which comes back to the point - NUS is NOT a University. Just some weird small place where there are non-active, no-initiative students, a bunch of poor lecturers and a group of incompetent administrators who spend more time claiming that NUS is a good university rather than improving on the school. Sad eh.
It's the largest lake around here, and so totally covered in snow that someone made a snow angel in there! I didn't realise the snow was so deep though, so I tried to step into it and promptly went Poof! Landed on my butt, waist-deep in snow. So embarrassing. There was a passer-by at that time so to save some face, I pretended I was actually sitting on the snow and taking pictures.
Visited the Red Gym and Memorial Union too (that's where I'll be taking my bus back to Chicago's O'Hare airport on Sat morning). And watched her ice-skating lesson in the morning ... I can't skate now cos of the lesson, but will be skating on Fri night! Waiting for yx to come back from lab in 1 hr's time, then we'll be going to West Towne Mall. Tom Yam soup tonight, then going to Lucky's Bar and Grille just across the street for supper drinks.
Weather's very fine today. No snow, little wind, people were walking around in t-shirts or shorts (notice I said "OR" - you can't wear T-shirt AND shorts even in this "fine" weather). The University's interesting though, you never get to see throngs of people walking around in NUS. Here, hundreds of students actually walk about in the streets and take buses to different buildings. And they have arcades, shops and pubs in their school buildings.
Which comes back to the point - NUS is NOT a University. Just some weird small place where there are non-active, no-initiative students, a bunch of poor lecturers and a group of incompetent administrators who spend more time claiming that NUS is a good university rather than improving on the school. Sad eh.
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