Brian: Alabamy Bound

My experiences during my summer internship at UAB

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

The Usual Suspects

Our dorm room is apartment-style, with a small living room, tiny kitchen, and 3 bedrooms with 2 beds each. My partners in crime are the other 5 guys (we don't really see the other people in the program much). We do stuff like go to Walmart (a very popular activity down here), play Poker/Risk, and watch movies. Here's our excursion to Mr. Wang's Chinese Buffet:
Nathaniel(Nate), senior physics major from Carnegie Mellon U. He's also the kicker on the football team, and he (surprise, surprise) likes rap. He's the guy that's usually making goofy/inappropriate gestures during pictures. Plus he's from New York and Jewish. His project is on nanoparticles for creating bone scaffolds.
Noah is a sophomore physics major from U. West Georgia. He grew up in a small town in GA called Tallapoosa, but he's not a stereotypical southerner, although he does have the accent. He has a red bmx bike that he rides around. His project is on creating nanoparticle magnets for cancer therapies.
Alan (pronounced uh-lawn) is a senior physics major, also from UWG. He's originally from Texas, though, and has a Bush sticker on his Mustang. He's working on laser-related projects.

Brad is the baby of the group, an 18-year-old sophomore from here at UAB. He's currently a physics major, but will soon be switching to psychology. Brad showed us around the first few days, but he doesn't really know where much is since he doesn't have a car.

Not pictured: Jeremy, my roommate, a senior physics major from Bob Jones U (SC). He's originally from Philly, and is into shooting/fishing/hunting/etc. He won some kind of national junior rifle tournament in high school. His car (below) usually takes us on our excursions around Birmingham.
The crew in action, picking me up from Five Points for a trip to Walmart.

1 Comments:

At 11:01 AM, Blogger HST said...

You look SO amused in that picture, I LOVE IT!

Tell the boys that the sex therapist says hello......

 

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