Me and My Interests

          School, although undoubtedly more work than leisure, has become my primary interest, which is sad I know, but the more I think about it, the more I realize it to be true. I dedicate myself fully for the eight hours we are forced to be there, and I find I spend even more time than necessary on work outside of school. I even enjoy it many times. The fact that I'm taking four more AP classes senior is evidence enough of this. If you think your fourth quarter is bad, this is mine: AP Physis, AP Calculus, AP Composition, and French 5.  I pride myself on doing well and working hard, but I'm starting to think I might've gotten in over my head.
         Anyway, when I'm not too busy being a nerd, I turn to the more geeky side of me and play endless amounts of video games, RPG's in particular. I thoroughly enjoy the challenge each one poses, and I can't get enough of the sometimes-mindless carnage. On a more peaceful, but equally geeky, note I also am quite interested in fantasy novels. I've read my fair share in the past, but I seem to read less and less the deeper I go into high school. Who knows, maybe this class will change that. Among my favorite books are the Bartimaeus, the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Inheritance, and Wheel of Time and series. Oh, and there's also the Shannara series and the Great Tree of Avalon series. They're all good, check them out sometime.
        I've already listed my favorite books, but my favorite movie may be just as hard to pinpoint. I like almost any decent action-adventure movie. I love marvel comic book based superhero movies, and I like more fantasy-based themes like in Harry Potter, but I think the Pirates of the Caribbean might be my favorite. The first one is the best, and they've all gone downhill since then. I'm mad that I still haven't seen the fourth one, but I'm sure I'll get around to it soon.. I didn't have very high expectations for it, but all the reviews I've heard have been surprisingly good. 
        As far my post-high school plans go, I intend to go to the UW Madison and major in Biochemistry or a related field. Right now I'm working in a lab at the UW as a special student through an internship sort of thing. The department is called biomolecular chemistry, and oddly enough, the head researcher there is Zach Denu's father, John Denu. So far it's sort of just been a recap of biotechnology class, but I hope to be doing some original research of my own later on in the summer. On side note, I was just reading an article before writing this blog titled A Coupled Fluorescent Assay for Histone Methyltransferases. That's a mouth-full, and trust me, it doesn't get any better from there. This could be a long summer...
        I've never really considered going anywhere besides Madison, and I can't imagine going anywhere far away. I guess I'm not very ambitious, so I'm not too desperate to escape my home. The fact is that I quite enjoy my life, and I don't desire any drastic change.