Hippocratic Oats

Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’

June 25, 2009 at 11:58 pm Leave a comment

Keeping with my song lyric blog titles, I decided to go with a Michael Jackson song tonight. I, like everyone else, was completely shocked and saddened by the news of his passing. Michael Jackson was an incredible artist. He was an icon. I still remember my dad taking out his old-school vinyl Thriller record, and introducing me to the awesomeness that was/is “Beat it” and “Billie Jean.” Michael Jackson made great music that I still listen to on a daily basis. Regardless of all the craziness that happened later in his life, he had an amazing career full of great music and music videos that will endure. RIP Michael Jackson.

On a much lighter note, tomorrow is my last day of work. I have such mixed feelings about my departure from the Broad. On one hand, it was an incredible experience where I had the opportunity to work with leading scientists in the molecular biology world and do amazing, ground-breaking research. I made some great friends, and spent the past three years falling in love with Boston. On the other, I am ready to move on. My heart isn’t in research, and I’m looking forward to the next chapter in my life. I “wanna be startin somethin.” I will always cherish the memories I made over the past three years. If it wasn’t for the Broad, I would have never met Tara, Ross and Michele. I would have never moved in with Hanley, and had all those good times in 58 Perry. For the first time since college, I got to leave near Emily again. I grew up more during the past three years than I did at Colgate. I was finally independent, and I learned how to live in the real world.

Goodbye desk and shiny new mac!

In other exciting news, I got one of the 125 tickets to the Healthy Living Summit happening this August in Boston. Over the past few months, I’ve really gotten into several health food based blogs that have both inspired and helped me get back on track with eating right and working out. My favorite is Carrots N Cake if you want to get a good idea for the type of blog I’m talking about. The summit will be a gathering of bloggers/blog readers AND there’s going to be a ton of very cool swag. I’m hoping to eventually take my blog more in the direction of healthy living while in med school and I think this conference will be a great place to start!

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