Who is Confused Biochemist? Q&A

It's been nine months now and how rude of me I haven't formally introduced my self lol, I've also added a lot of random things about my self.
      Name: Amina
      Age:20

      My favorite inside joke: That's a tie between 'naked trees' and ' Margret and Anne'

      People I look up to: My old mosque teacher
     Do i like someone: nope
     Tea or Coffee: Though I have coffee more often, I like tea more.
     Natural hair color: black
      Favorite color: any type of blue
      favorite movie: hmm that's a hard one. I'm gonna have to say The Avengers
      Favorite song: nobody told me by B.O.B and Aloe Blacc wake me up
      Someone I miss: Not exactly someone- but my cat
      Last Person I texted: my mate N
     Last person I called: my mate A
      Someone I'm talking to right now: you guys ;)
    Where i wish I was right now: Dubai
     Favorite day: Saturday because it's the first day of the week I can sleep in
     Favorite smiley: ;)
     Guilty pleasure: hands down HSM all of them
     What was your last dream about: No idea
      Last thing you said to your brother: alright
     What are you doing right now: typing ;)
      What are your plans for today: well seeing as it's past midnight, do chores in the morning, get   ready for mosque tutor and hopefully get a good amount of work done.
      Favorite class: Human structure and function
      Favorite place to eat: Subway!!
      Last thing you watched on t.v: Casualty
      Last person to make you smile: sister
     Last person to make you laugh: sister
     What do you love: Making a difference,
     What do you hate: plans failing and someone messing with my stuff
      Favorite person to talk to: In all honesty, my little sister. she's crazy but she's my kind of crazy
      Where was your profile picture taken: copied from Google images ;)    
      Are you happy: I'd like to think so
      Are you sad: only when  I look at my work load.
      If you could change anything what would it be: tbh I don't know anymore, I only wish I knew the things I know now when I was 16.
    How do you see your future: whistling merrily in a lab
   Why do you blog? Well well well.... I blog firstly because when I was applying to uni there was next to nothing out there of what biochemistry was like, realistically what you could and what you should expect to do. In college the teachers just romanticised it, others made it out like it was rocket science. So I started to write to give a realistic insight of what studying biochem is. I didn't know what biochemistry really was until the summer of AS. Before that I always had the misconception that it's only for medicine rejects. So I want my blog to be able to be used as an information point too. thirdly random poetry and motivation. Now I started writing a book twice. Once a collection of poetry and secondly a motivational book. Poetry with me only flows and is to the level I want it to be when i'm really passionate or emotional about something. when that wasn't going as smoothly as I wanted it to be I started a book, a motivational one. But because I was going through pretty much the same experiences in college there wasn't that much to talk about. Also a book required a lot of commitment, and most of all it needs to flow. That's where blogging comes in. My posts don't need to have anything to do with the posts before. Every time it's a blank canvass which I like. One day InshaAllah i'll publish a motivational book. But in the meantime, i'm sticking to this.

For daily ( or almost daily) motivational quotes here and there by yours truly then like my new facebook page https://www.facebook.com/confusedbiochemist

That's all folks

Quick update, facebook

Hey guys, I now have a facebook page called Confused Biochemist. Like that page for updates and a motivational status every now and again.  https://www.facebook.com/confusedbiochemist
And generally smaller things, like funny pics etc. whereas i'll be leaving this for the bigger blog posts.

That's all folks, peace out

poem #2 what if

Here's just one of the things I write when I'm supposed to be listening to my lecture. I think this is the most personal poem I've ever written, which is open to interpretation. Enjoy!

My greatest what if.
one question will always remain
Nothing will ever be the same

What if you stayed
what if life hadn't changed
would I still be the same?

If my circumstances were different
would my life be hindered?

What if you didn't have to leave
would you always have been there for me?

What if I did everything you wanted me to
would you be proud of me then
or are you proud of me now too?

What if I became exactly like you
would people look up to me, like they look up to you?


What if I searched for the answer through time
would you be able to tell me where to find...
The answer.

I could ask you what if endlessly
But I just want you here indefinitely.



What if?
 

Thank you

Let me just take a moment here to say thank you all so much for the views, my blog is my baby and when I started I had no idea that my blog would be read from so many different countries. I mean I only put up links on my Fb and twitter. And some of you are in Canada, Indonesia and France! I am intrigued though, do let me know how you find out when I've posted. According to my calculations and the number of views I get everytime I post I should hit a 1000 views next week. I have great plans for this blog in the near future inshaAllah, I'll probably personalise it a little bit though that's not certain yet. What I do definitely plan to do though is write a lot more kick-ass motivational posts like my 'it gets better' one.

Thank you to all my friends who have supported my blog and read every single one of them, I really appreciate it and the feedback. This has certainly been a journey for me. One that I never anticipated on going on. It just happened one day, after I signed up for my uni course, looking back at my first blog lol I sounded very very enthusiastic. It's certainly been a great journey, with more greatness planned.

Requests, love life, coping

Ok guys, last time I put up statuses asking what people want to read. And my 2 responses were.
1) My love life
2)Coping with your studies and managing to have fun at the same time

1) I was really tempted to write 'My love life' and then leave it blank because that's what its like. I'm in a really confused place right now, constantly wondering if I should become a confused biomedic instead of biochemist. Then again I love biochem but post graduate stuff is confusing arghh... It would be unfair to drag someone into that anyway. When I've got my life sorted out then i'll worry about finding someone. The how is something I do not know at all. All I know is one thing, I will never make the first move. Whoever you may be, you're gonna have to man up.

2) Coping with my studies- I guess that really depends on the persons perspective. I'm not revising as hard as I was in semester one and therefore my grades aren't as good as i'd like them to be. With deadlines and exams fast approaching my stress levels are very high. That doesn't stop me from having fun though, I always find a way to fit in time for meeting up with friends, even if that is just the 20 minute train journey. Luckily I have 2 friends that catch the train in the same direction as me. I try fitting in a couple of hours for the gym, though I haven't been in a month now :( and swimming the odd week. It may sound a little sad, but those are the things that I find fun. That feeling straight after gym, and the next couple of days where you feel so strong. I once tried to get Jessica Ennis type abs, Barely got a 4 pack. I leave work at uni and the library lately, So I've kind of been a hobo going from one library then another. But hey, if you've got immature friends you've got everything right?

My coping right now goes like this, on days where I don't have family stuff
Wake up tired- library/lecture- library if I was in lecture- come home-eat & go on laptop- read Quran - revise a little more- more laptop- go to sleep tired.
That cycle begins on Monday and usually gets broken on Thursday.

I Hope that answered your questions. If you've got any more suggestions feel free to comment/inbox. I apologise for not posting as often as I used to, I've got a lot going on right now but June should be interesting inshaAllah :D

And that's all folks.