Presentations, Posters, and Paul's Burger

So the past couple of days I have been pretty busy with presentations, posters, and eating ridiculously good burgers. I have to admit that after these 10 weeks are over I will pretty much have a pretty good handle on great food in New York City from burgers to French food, from Japanese to Italian... and so on. So this past Friday I had my presentation for my lab, which I would consider the most important presentation I have ever done thus far in my career. It was a presentation specifically to excite my boss- and it did. I needed to have her excited so that when I left my project would continue and I would be able to have my work published by the end of the year, or at least on track to be published. After the presentation and receiving accolades from my boss, I had a poster that I had to finish by today- I got it in within minutes of my deadline. So this past weekend was a mixture of work and play. On Saturday I went into work and went out to dinner with Emily. We then walked to the East River (gorgeous) and then we decided that I had to try Ferrara's desserts in Little Italy since I have never had it. They are famous for their cannoli- and it was amazing! oh, and we took the subway to get there, which is always an experience. After eating a cannoli and gelato we went to "Rice to Riches" where I bought rice pudding, but had to save it for later because of how full I was. On sunday I went with Emily to The Museum of Natural History and relived my childhood- I LOVED THAT MUSEUM AS A KID. After a good four hours of wondering around looking at blue whales and debating with anthropologists on human lineage we happen to run into literally (very bizarre) another friend and walked to Lincoln Center to try and get tickets for South Pacific- we learned pretty much all plays only do 3pm performances on Sunday :( So instead we took the subway (again- 2 days in a row!) down to Astor place and we went to Paul's, which is a really good burger place and they have $5 1/2 pound burgers- of course mine turned out to be $11 because I wanted cheese, mushroom, and cooked onions. But nonetheless it was great. We then stopped at a Mr. Softee and I had a chocolate milk shake. We went back to the apartment and watched a movie- I had a great time! So now I have only 7 days left in the city. It has been truly an adventure. There have been ups and downs, but I really do love living here and could definitely see myself going to Medical School here in another 2 years. I have learned so much and I have made a lot of new friends who I am sure I will keep in contact with through the crazy amount of years it will take before we all get our degrees. Well, it's now 11:34pm and I have a stupid breakfast meeting at 8:30am- it's pointless.