Mia Meets Bike

UtahJoe said:
Very awesome @Meatball Mia....do they let you make experimental drugs yet? I know Harold and Kumar would be willing guinea pigs

Glad to see your pivot has made the journey to Michigan
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That's more of a chemistry thing. It's a reason why cold medicine was recently pulled off the shelf for some time and has since been reformulated. Basically they figured how easy it was to make speed. I was boring and decided to make my own version of Neosporin, which was actually much harder with low yields.
 
Meatball Mia said:
My next chapter ā€¦

So Iā€™ve been a little MIA (no pun intended) with my blog since my last race of the season at Thunder Mountain, but that has mostly been because Iā€™ve had to prepare for the next, big chapter in my life: pharmacy school.

Iā€™ll start with a quick overview/summary of my summer. In just a few words, it was totally awesome. This was by far one of the best summers I've ever had. What surprised me the most about why this summer was so great was that I didnā€™t race as much. Now I absolutely love enduro racing, but in the past few years, I would kind of force myself to race the whole series and put pressure on myself to do well in the series overall. Because I knew I couldnā€™t go for the series overall this year, I had more fun racing. In the end, it didnā€™t really matter how the race went, as long as I had fun, I was happy (except for a few moments when I knew I could have done better).

Besides racing, I also did a ton of really awesome riding this summer. I actually looked back at my strava, and I rode the most dumb gnar this summer than ever, and I can say it was magical. I also looked, and I am pretty sure I rode with @JimN almost every day I was riding. On that note, I feel like I had a lot of progress riding technical trails and features this summer. The one highlight of that progress was during my last week at home, I was riding the Ridge with Jim, and I finally rode a downhill that I never thought I would be able to and I made it up some rocky features that were pretty daunting most of the times Iā€™ve been there.

Because my summer was so awesome, it made it really hard to leave. Right before I left, I felt like I was riding my bike the best I ever have, and I was having a ton of fun doing it. It was hard having to go somewhere else where I knew I could ride a bike, but a lot less often and it wasnā€™t going to be the same as home. I also had to come to terms that I was going to be a lot further away from home, so when I miss the trails, my bike, and the people at home, I canā€™t just get in my car and drive home for the weekend like I used to.

So now the move to Michigan. The drive was about 8 and half hours and actually not that bad. Luckily, my parents let me drive the whole way in my car by myself. Now I know many of you donā€™t know my parents, but this was a big step for them because they usually donā€™t even let me drive myself to Mountain Creek, which is like 45 minutes from where I live, but theyā€™ll let me race double black tech trails in the rain there without questioning it. My move-in went pretty well and my apartment is really nice and in a great location for school and walking to football games in the Big House.

My parents stayed with me throughout my orientation week for pharmacy school, the first week of classes, and the second week of classes. It was really nice having them here for that extended period of time because they helped me build all my furniture, they helped me figure out and adjust to life here, and they kept me company for the first weeks when I still really hadnā€™t met a lot of people. My dad also got to ride bikes with me at least three times a week, which was really awesome because I didnā€™t get to ride with him as much as I wanted to this summer because he had an ongoing leg injury. The trails here are definitely different from New Jersey and the Northeast in general, but there are a few spots that are pretty fun. Unfortunately, my rear rim cracked on like the fourth ride here, so now I donā€™t have a bike until the local bike shop builds my new wheel. I joined the mountain biking team here, which will be really fun, and Iā€™m looking forward to finally getting to ride with them once my wheel is finished.

Staying on the topic of school, my classes have been pretty good so far. Itā€™s only the beginning of week 3, so I know it's going to get worse. My schedule is pretty busy, and I have a lot of moving parts in my classes as well as extra things we are required to do outside of class times, so Iā€™m a bit all over the place sometimes. What makes all this work a little easier is that I actually enjoy what Iā€™m learning and can see how it will be applied to my future career. The most stressful thing going on right now is trying to find internships for the upcoming summer. Iā€™ve been on most pharmaceutical companiesā€™ websites to find information or openings, but Iā€™ve been struggling to find information.

Outside of classes, I have met some really nice people so far, which is good because the whole cohort has every class together and we do a lot of group work. Besides my own class, I am also assigned something called a pharmacy ā€œPhamily.ā€ This is a group of students including a P1, which is me, a P2, a P3, and a P4. My phamily has been really amazing so far. They are a really good resource and they are really nice. My P4 is 32 years old and has become a really good friend that looks after me, which I really appreciate.

I went to my first football game this past weekend, which was really fun. It was awesome to be a part of a stadium with over 110,000 people all in Mazie. The game itself did not end well, but it was a great experience.

Overall, life has been pretty good to me lately, and I am really enjoying pharmacy school. Next up is my white coat ceremony, which is less than a month away, and that makes my journey in pharmacy official.

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Congrats! I had many good times in Ann Arbor, although not college/university related (I was forking at the Ford plant in Ypsilanti). Does the Blind Pig still exist?
 
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