The "Ecology" Club

Not only is my Health in the Developing World class one of the most relevant classes to the world's problems, but it also has some of the best discussions as well. The combination of graduate students in the class adds a new dimension and level of outside expertise that I have yet to experience in the classroom.

But my professor always knows how to relate on our level, trying to bring a bit more of a positive side to our lectures by adding pictures of himself from about 20 years ago into the powerpoints. Longer-haired and hippy-eske, last weeks photo was from his high school yearbook. Next to his picture mentioned that he was the captain of his high school swim team, and a member of the ecology club--we laughed.

His quick reply... "The ecology club is what myself and my under-achieving friends made up to put something on our college applications. We never really had a meeting without a bong."

This week's photo: professor smoking hookah somewhere in Egypt (I believe) with two old college friends.

I honestly can say, I look forward to this class every single week.

one year too late: but better late than never...

I've been snooping on a bunch of blogs lately, and it's made me miss my xanga blog that I used to post on back in the day. So I decided to give it a little check-up and found that my last posting on it was from Jan. 23, 2008... mostly talking about my excitement for conferences coming up in the next month.

What is more intriguing was my goal times I posted:

Conference Goals
under 2:30.00 2BR
under 2:15.08 2IM
under 4:51.22 4IM

Last year, I didn't accomplish any one of those goals, and it was pretty disappointing overall (even though I did swim all best times last year...)

But this year's conferences was basically the BEST meet I have ever swam at and experienced in my life. Not only did I achieve every one of my goals from last season, but I crushed them:

2009 Conference Times
2:27.33 2BR
exactly 2:15.08 2IM
4:41.48 4IM

A year ago I predicted the exact time I went this past weekend in the 2IM. Pretty freaky.

Maybe I'll start posting on here more regularly...