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I have to say that I was rather proud of my Storytelling post this week: I always put myself under pressure to make some part of the narrative that I'm retelling "fresh and new". I knew I had the capability to write a good twist on Arabian nights, but it took me a while to figure out what exactly I would do. The tricky part was: Arabian Nights already has so much inter-textual and self-reflective power by itself, just how Scheherazade tells the stories of characters within stories. So the only way that I knew I could enhance Scheherazade's mental game with the Sultan would be to add a new rule: that the Sultan would be given the chance to tell parts of the story as well. I wanted to retain that Scheherazade was still trying to win over the Sultan's empathy, but I thought it would be more interesting if the Sultan had become aware of her strategy and was given some power, and I think it worked out well in my retelling.
My other classes are really starting to pick up their pace, but fortunately it's not too overwhelming (even with taking 19 credit hours total). In my psychopharmacology course we are finally getting to talk about schizophrenia and the anti-psychotics that affect it. I consider this a big step in my education as a future doctor, not just this subject matter, but the whole course in general. I think it's important that pre-medical students are able to take courses in their undergrad experience that make them feel like they're in medical school already, and my psychopharmacology is definitely one of those courses.
That quality also goes for my experimental genetics and cell lab: we get to study unusual specimens and are able to make experimental conjectures about how the genetics of an organism are altered in both the natural and artificial settings (Makes me feel like a Jurassic Park geneticist! But really...).
Well I didn't read you week 4 storytelling, but if you think it's good, then I think I need to go check it out. 19 credit hours is completely bats. You are an absolute machine. The psychopharmacology course you are taking sounds really interesting (I am a biochemistry major planning on going to pharmacy school). I'd love to take a class like that!
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