Oh my god.Social Darwinists -- continuing to screw with the population's understanding of both evolutionary theory and the most basic premises of scientific logic since... well, actually, LONG before 1859! A glorious, uninterrupted tradition of distorting the principles of genetic inheritence in an attempt to justify the basest discrimination and ( Read more... )

In Mexico City. Received long-stemmed pink rosebud from the taxi driver upon arrival. Have checked into hotel, which is FAR and away the fanciest one I have ever ever stayed in. Have gone for a swim in the tub and nearly drowned in the deep end. Princesshood has its hazards, apparently ( Read more... )

I am staying responsibly home from what would have doubtless been an incredibly cool concert of William Bolcom's music in order to slog through several chapter's worth of information on the digestive and reproductive systems ( Read more... )

So, in dazzlingly awful news, I might actually HAVE to drop the biology minor ( Read more... )

Course list went up today. ( Time for my biannual bout of Preregistration Angst. )

Wow, I've been, um, brilliant at keeping in touch with people this semester. You'd think at least I'd update this thing more often, as it doesn't require actually remembering to use my phone ( Read more... )

Ugh. Sweating over a stupid neuroscience lab, which may possibly end up teaching me something -- I have serious doubts -- but which at the moment is just making me sleepy and frustrated and irritated with myself for not having planned my time better. RARRRGH ( Read more... )

So on Thursday evening, I went to this dinner hosted by the campus organization Women In Science and Math (WISM, pronounced like 'wisdom' without the 'd ( Read more... )

I'm learning about the anatomy and functioning of cells in relationship to both biology and contemporary music theory.

Even with a blinding headache and quasi-flu, I love my life.

My favorite jeans now have a large yellow spot on the left leg from having nitric acid dripped on them. I feel I have been baptized as a chem student ( Read more... )