FINALS!!!

AGH!!! It's Finals Time!

Need I say more!

It is now time for coffee and staying up late and studying in the library till the wee hours in the morning. Followed by cramming (initiate Cram Mode!) and freaking out before the test is even in front of you. Then as you walk into the class you start trying to remember every little thing you studied and start worrying that the missed something. As you start to take the test you realize that the one chapter that you skipped because you thought you "knew it", is the major topic on the test.

You know I'm right. :)

So good luck to any of you that are having to take finals or even just a test or quiz. And may the odds be ever in your favor.

 
                            

I Found Something New!

You’ll never guess what I found!

A phoenix, a dragon and a pegasus having a tea party! No, not really, but that would be AMAZING! FYI: The phoenix, dragon and pegasus are my top three favorite mythological creatures. They are amazing! I think it would be so cool for them to actually exist.

Anyways, I digress…

What I really found was a yoga class. My school has free community classes on campus and in one of the buildings. So I decided to go, mainly because I had just taken a HUGE test and was in the mood to relax and unwind. Let me just say that yoga was the way to go.

The room had different sized pillows everywhere. They had a giant rectangular one that was the mat and then a medium sized one called a zambutan. I’m not even sure that I spelled it right. Then there was a small, hard round one that we actually only used once. I don't even remember the name for that one.

So we did restorative yoga and so we mainly focused on breathing and being calm. It was perfect! The giant pillow was like a mattress and it was so comfy! I’m thinking that if I am ever tired or if I need a place to unwind I’m going to hang out in that room on one of the mats.

So my advice to you: if your school has a meditation room or a yoga class or if your gym has a yoga class, GO! You won’t regret it!

Job Search

Why is it so hard to get a job?!

I am currently trying to find a job so that way I can stay busy and make some money when I am not I school. And I am failing!

No one wants me! I applied to a water park, which would have been perfect if I had landed the job, because their season ends right before the next school year. But no... nothing... apparently they are looking for high school students. Not college ones. I don't see a difference. Except that I can be more mature and I will be on time and I have actually held a job before.

I also applied for a position in a small ice cream shop and the manager said that she wanted to help college students, but she is looking for someone who will stay long term. This does not make sense. College students are from out of town, so they are going home to be with family over the summer, when ice cream is in season.

Also, When I told her that my last boss was a great woman and she was flexible due to my school hours, she immediately spit out that she was not flexible. Okay... But college students want a VERY flexible job because they still have classes they need to attend.  So she didn't really make any sense.

Ugh... Thus concludes my rant, and my continuation on trying to find a job.

Class Registrations

Gah!!!! It has been a while! So sorry!!

Lets catch up!

I recently registered for classes for next year! I have organic chemistry, biology, and calculus II. I'm going to be busy.

Also, my ochem (organic chemistry... student lingo :D ) class is a night class! A NIGHT CLASS! I thought that never in my college career would I ever have a night class! But it is ochem and that class is extremely hard to get into and if it is available and you are a biology student, YOU TAKE IT!

So I did...

Thankfully it is only on Monday, so I won't have to go to a night class every night.

I also have to take calculus II. NOOOO! I hate math! I prefer science more, and math and I are like a heterogeneous mixture. ( ;) for all you science people out there.)

I took calc I (calculus... another example of student lingo) first semester and thought that I didn't have to take any more calculus classes. Boy, was I wrong!

It turns out that for my major, I need two semesters of calculus, but for graduate school, I only need one. Why college why!?!?

I am actually excited for biology, since I LOVE biology! So news on that class. :)

So until next time!

Cheaters

I took a Spanish test today and I think I did okay. Yay!

In my Spanish class there is a guy who sits a couple of seats away from me, who asked me what I got on the last test. I got a good grade and so I told him.

So guess where he sat today! Right next to me!

I'm not an idiot, I know that this sudden change in seating is because you are hoping to cheat off my test. He couldn't have made it more obvious than when he outright asked me if I knew how to do one of the problems.

PUH-LEAZE! You risk your own grade by not studying and cheating, and now you want to risk mine by answering! Heck no!

So I shook my head no and went on with my test, turned it in before him and left. To be honest I did know what to do at the section, but I'm not going to give the answer to you, especially during a test.

Griffith's Experiment

In Biology we learned about this man named Frederick Griffith. Perhaps you know of him (I didn't), and if you don't (like me), he was a biologist who came up with an idea called the "transforming principle".



Frederick Griffith

This principle came about after Griffith did some experiments on mice. So what he did was he took two strains of bacteria, S (which stood for smooth) and R (which stood for rough), and injected them into mice. But there was a catch... R was a non lethal bacteria, but S was not and had the ability to kill the mice.

So as you might have guessed, when R was injected, the mouse lived, but when S was injected, the mouse died. But Griffith went further... He decided to heat the S strain, which caused the bacteria to die. So when this heated S strain was injected, the mouse lived. But again, Griffith went further... this time he mixed a heated S strain and a R strain together and injected the mouse.

Well, what do you think happened? The mouse died. Why? Griffith never found out and this question was later answered by two separate groups of scientists: Avery, McCarty and Macleod and Hershey and Chase.

If that was too complicated for you here is a nice picture.


                                         
Rough strain= live mouse
Smooth strain= dead mouse

So I guess you could say that Frederick Griffith was the original DeadMau5!

 

Oops! That is a lot of extra space!

My College Life: Doodle Edition

So these are some of things that I have doodled while I was waiting for class to start or when I was extremely bored because the teacher was talking in circles. There are definitely more to come.