Fading
With the snow fading this morning, I thought perhaps the green loveliness of the grass would cheer me up. I even held hopes that perhaps the sun would shine! At the least, I was exhilarated that I was walking comfortably outside without a coat. It was seeming to be a good day.
Then... Qualitative analysis struck. My cognitive abilities faded quickly as the monotonous list of chemicals we had to measure and dilute and mix increased. This was further complicated by the idiotic droning of my neighboring lab pupils. If I hadn't been lucky enough to get the same lab partner as last semester, then I'd probably be homicidal already. I took one look at the equations and my brain went on strike. It's out to lunch, be back tomorrow... Sigh, this class is torture. The real clincher is that it is only worth 2 credits but we are in class 6 hours a week and I am doing work outside of class for it at least that same amount of time. It's ludicrous. It's the most work, not to mention the most difficult work, of any class I've had so far in college. It really almost discourages me from being a bio major... And O chem only bodes to be worse.
Sigh
Please someone give me something solid to wrap my brain around before it disintigrates completely!
posted by Hannah @ 4:24 PM
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Don't give up Hannah! We need you to stick out the bio major to save the animals of the world! While Mark may argue that mediocrity and mental bullemia suck, you really will never use these practically for the most part. They're weeding out people like the others who talk through lab. But you have proved time and again an endurant passion that WILL triumph.
Here's a bit of blatant fact for you to enjoy: rat and mouse DNA is 60 - 70% identical. Chimp and human DNA is 98.5 - 99% identical. According to my Human Evolution teacher -- though he has pointed out a dozen times he does NOT advocate such -- this is more than close enough for a viable hybrid. Thus the lineage of Dubya is finally explained. My apologies to the chimps, but we don't want him either.
You always know how to brighten my day Em!
Good news, I stopped by and talked with the chem professor who is my TA's supervisor and she talked me through the last two labs that I was having problems with and they completely make sense now! Yay for awesome professors!
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