Meet my Blog

Well, here it is. My blog where I’ll be recording my summer in New York, New York (hence the title). I’ve never had an online blog before (usually I just keep a journal), but this seemed like a neat way of keeping everyone updated on my adventures in the big city. And this way, you can live vicariously through me if you want. I don’t mind.

So, I am going there as a participant in a 2 month summer research internship at NYU. The program is called SURP (Summer Undergraduate Research Program) and has 23 undergraduates from 21 different universities around the US and Europe. They call us SURPies and, apparently, we’ll be spoiled a lot for the entire 9 week period. The program lets us work full time in a lab of our choice. There are also other planned activities like broadway plays, a weekly seminar series followed by dinner at various ethnic restaurants around town, a bike trip around Manhattan led by Dr. Oppenheim, a concert in Central Park and more… Basically, this is gonna be pretty sweet. And, I get paid for doin it! I have yet to wrap my mind around the awesomeness.

I’ll be there from June 1st to August and will try to write at least one entry per week. There’ll be plenty of things for me to do and plenty of people for me to meet. New York is, after all, very diverse. Dr. Oppenheim, the dean of the medical school himself, ensured us that there is a whole slew of genders in New York. I mean, what more can one ask for? I am really looking forward to meeting all these people. Besides that, I really want to go to The Daily Show once, and maybe also The Colbert Report, visit the memorial thingy for John Lennon, run into Yoko Ono, go to D.C for a weekend, go to Boston maybe, and to the Brooklyn bridge thing where all those pictures that make beautiful posters are taken. Well, lets just say there’s a lot that can be done, and I want to do it all. Let me know if you have any suggestions about specific things.

I don’t know if I’m making myself clear here, but I am really really excited about this. It still feels unreal and I feel completely unprepared. But, Jessica Hunt gave me a 7 day unlimited subway pass, so I’ll be prepared once I get there.

And I'm totally psyched about getting real copies of The Onion for the entire summer!!!