Kyle Smith's Page

It may be the weekend, but it's also nearly the end of the semester and plenty of homework and graduate school applications to be done. Today I finished the second draft of my personal statement, and am looking forward to finishing up the final draft, which my advisers have been helping me to complete. My first application to Duke is due on December 8, followed by Northwestern on the 15. Thus, along with all the lab reports and finals to consider I'll be working on those applications and the…

Wow, tomorrow is the last day of November, and there is only one full week of classes left before finals week. This semester has been flying, especially November. I've been amazingly busy since I last posted here, which definitely made November fly by. Aside from all the assignments that come with being a senior chemistry major, I took both the General and Chemistry GRE this month. Both were very difficult in their own right, but definitely worth it as I prepare for graduate school. The best…

Today has been one of the best days of the semester. My best friend and I dressed up at Bacon and Mr. Eggs. It was an awesome experience as seniors here at Albright because not only did our classmates find the costumes humorous, but so did our professors. Not just any school will allow you to dress up in a costume, and the professors here not only allowed it, but they made jokes and continued with lecture as if it was no big deal. We truly are a family here at Albright, and I couldn't be…

So, this is my fourth year here at Albright, and I have luckily only been ponded once out of those four years. Ponding is one of those events that everyone here at Albright has a true love/hate relationship with. It is always fun to watch a friend be carried to the pond and dropped in as everyone cheers and shouts "happy birthday!" but at the same time when it's your birthday that happiness is often transformed into fear of when your friends will be throwing you into the pond. That being…