So let's try this blog thing again- Stress Relief

Starting the 4th year of grad school, the pressure is mounting. My friends all have papers out and I feel like I'm so behind. Reminding myself that all projects are different is only a certain about of conciliation. My "to-do" and "to-read" list are endless, experiments have weird timing so I've been sleeping crazy hours some weeks, etc. All this adds up to mountains of stress.

Today, I talked to a professor in the medical science department about the fact that they have stress relief programs for medical students to teach them meditation, imagery, yoga and other forms of relaxation. Right now, my stress relief is baking cookies. Maybe those other methods of calming would be better for me, but then again my lab mates seem to enjoy cookies and that always cheers me up.

The latest in tasty cookies.

http://www.cookiemadness.net/2008/02/white-chocolate-chunk-lemon-cookies/

http://homesicktexan.blogspot.com/2009/09/moms-oatmeal-cookies.html