Che culo!!
I GOT AN A ON MY BIOCHEMISTRY FINAL!!!
Go nerd core!!
The genetics final was a vengful, unsurly, man-eating beast of an exam! Um, 14 pages long. Fun class that one was with how many times I wanted to beat myself in the head with the book. Honestly, I don't care what I got on that one as long as I ultimately ended up passing the course. *EDIT* I don't know what I got on the final, but earned a C- in the class, so I'm done with that!!!
Molecular Cell biology and Biochemistry II up for next semester. Yay!
My frog died Wednesday. =o/
I can't figure out what to do with myself. I'll probably just read over this break that I have. I should enjoy it because I won't have another break from school until next December (like this time) because I'll be taking another round of summer classes.
I'd like to clarify something. A topic that caused an absolutely ridiculous debate to ensue. Alright, here it is... Shaving does NOT make hair grow back thicker or darker. Hmm? What? It does? NO, IT DOESN'T. Search it.
I'm buddies with almost all the trainers at the gym and they're idiots. Except for Wendy, who's awesome. Anyway... I was talking to two of the guy trainers, and one of them was talking about shaving and the other reiterated that myth, to which I said, it's false. He then proceeded to tell me that "studies" were done that backed him up after I'd posed the question, "Why would physically removing hair from the surface of the skin, without introducing a chemical change, cause the the hair thickness or color to change?" Yeah, well, he brought up tanning and shivering as physical reactions that are temporary to try to prove his point. I think I was the only one who smelled a Red Herring. Tanning is caused by radiation that elicits a chemical reaction that is due to breaking of covalent bonds between atoms which ultimately results in the skin darkening as a defense mechanism against further radiation damage. Shivering is a physiological reaction that has a temporary chemical nature because the proteins in the body work at an optimal temperature... blah blah blah... proton gradient... blah blah blah... ATP synthesis... blah blah blah... causing muscles to contract rapidly to generate heat without doing any work.
My thing is, if you're trying to debate a point and say there are studies that back up what you say, I'm not going to ask that you reference the studies done, but do be able to say what information you've been presented with that has lead you to believe that a piece of information is true. That's reasonable. Oh, and just because someone you work out with said it, or it was in a Men's/Women's Health or other popular magazine, doesn't mean it's from a credible source or true.
Just couldn't help but to think, "You're in the field that's supposed to be providing sound information to help improve people's health and you don't research a topic before providing it to be true information?" That really concerns me because some of these types of people are going into medical fields and people's health and well being is in their hands.
Blah. I'm off to the gym and, as has been the case for 5½ years, my cat is irresistibly cute!!!!
Please ignore any spelling, grammatical, punctuational, etc. errors.
Thanks,
Management
Go nerd core!!
The genetics final was a vengful, unsurly, man-eating beast of an exam! Um, 14 pages long. Fun class that one was with how many times I wanted to beat myself in the head with the book. Honestly, I don't care what I got on that one as long as I ultimately ended up passing the course. *EDIT* I don't know what I got on the final, but earned a C- in the class, so I'm done with that!!!
Molecular Cell biology and Biochemistry II up for next semester. Yay!
My frog died Wednesday. =o/
I can't figure out what to do with myself. I'll probably just read over this break that I have. I should enjoy it because I won't have another break from school until next December (like this time) because I'll be taking another round of summer classes.
I'd like to clarify something. A topic that caused an absolutely ridiculous debate to ensue. Alright, here it is... Shaving does NOT make hair grow back thicker or darker. Hmm? What? It does? NO, IT DOESN'T. Search it.
I'm buddies with almost all the trainers at the gym and they're idiots. Except for Wendy, who's awesome. Anyway... I was talking to two of the guy trainers, and one of them was talking about shaving and the other reiterated that myth, to which I said, it's false. He then proceeded to tell me that "studies" were done that backed him up after I'd posed the question, "Why would physically removing hair from the surface of the skin, without introducing a chemical change, cause the the hair thickness or color to change?" Yeah, well, he brought up tanning and shivering as physical reactions that are temporary to try to prove his point. I think I was the only one who smelled a Red Herring. Tanning is caused by radiation that elicits a chemical reaction that is due to breaking of covalent bonds between atoms which ultimately results in the skin darkening as a defense mechanism against further radiation damage. Shivering is a physiological reaction that has a temporary chemical nature because the proteins in the body work at an optimal temperature... blah blah blah... proton gradient... blah blah blah... ATP synthesis... blah blah blah... causing muscles to contract rapidly to generate heat without doing any work.
My thing is, if you're trying to debate a point and say there are studies that back up what you say, I'm not going to ask that you reference the studies done, but do be able to say what information you've been presented with that has lead you to believe that a piece of information is true. That's reasonable. Oh, and just because someone you work out with said it, or it was in a Men's/Women's Health or other popular magazine, doesn't mean it's from a credible source or true.
Just couldn't help but to think, "You're in the field that's supposed to be providing sound information to help improve people's health and you don't research a topic before providing it to be true information?" That really concerns me because some of these types of people are going into medical fields and people's health and well being is in their hands.
Blah. I'm off to the gym and, as has been the case for 5½ years, my cat is irresistibly cute!!!!
Please ignore any spelling, grammatical, punctuational, etc. errors.
Thanks,
Management