Lately, I've been trying to balance my life more. Work harder, exercise, read books for fun, listen to music... and I'm pushing myself to visit my professors more often. Reach out. It is pretty much the last couple days of the semester, but you have to start somewhere, right?
Something I was sad about: I read my old college application essays because I was helping Koki with his. In almost all of them, I preached (pretty much.) the importance of science with humanities--that we cannot practice medicine or work in a lab without remember the people the DNA belongs to or the art and culture they have. I still believe this now, but what do I have to show for it? I have not picked up my clarinet in almost 6 months although I do play piano whenever I go home. And, when was the last time I wrote something that I felt completely comfortable with? Lately, my writing has been things like "2.0 g of benzaldehyde WAS DESPENSED in the 3-mL vial." I mean, gross!!! Gross, gross, gross, gross, gross.
I promise to try harder to keep music and writing in my life next semester. It's important to branch out (hence the exercising =P and maybe the ball room dancing) but some things are too important to let go. So please, if you have left something important that is really so much a part of you behind, don't forget it. Pick up the clarinet and let the music flow.
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