The end is near. And I'm not talking about the apocalypse. I'm going to be studying for the rest of the week...after I see "Star Trek" tonight, of course. I shall emerge Friday, May 22, at around four pm. Hopefully I will be triumphant.

Then, I get a week off. Yay!

Why only one week, you may ask? Well, that's because I am doing research at a Large Prominent American Hospital for eight weeks. I got some grants and a research training fellowship from the American Foundation for Aging Research. I applied, thinking that there was no way I'd get it. My advisor even got me to apply to the program at Prominent Ivy League Med School. I did so, pretty much assuming that there was no way I'd get it.

And then I did. Huh.