Free Write



Hello biology friends. It's time for a free write.

As a junior I took CP Chemistry. I ran pretty hot and cold with my feelings about that class. I thoroughly enjoyed the people with which I took that class, as well as some of the topics. However, I just did not like some of the material. Other times I liked it and felt very smart. Anyway, I'm a really indecisive person and that isn't the point of this.

Whatever else I may have gotten out of chemistry class be it friendship, knowledge, maybe a little bit of work ethic, whatever else, I definitely took away a love for science jokes. My favorite one cannot be expressed to you in words (unless it's about Shrodinger's cat) so I will simply show you this picture:

 

Seriously, if you aren't laughing right now, you've either never taken chemistry or you're heartless.

I was actually writing about chemistry here because this review got me excited to think about how bio and chemistry could overlap. I really liked chem class (sometimes) but I've always thought that i preferred bio more and now that I'm going off to college I feel I need to choose a direction. But many fields had a mixture of bio and chem. So hopefully everything I'm learning will not only just give me good knowledge and help me be a well rounded person but help me to decide if I want to study chem, bio, or biochem within the next year!



Check out this oarfish!
the video is a couple minutes long and it looks lame at first but it gets cool!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_8nT4zLAQk&feature=player_embedded

Never thought I'd see the day where I was was left feeling sorry for a wasp!

Just 4 days ago a fossil was discovered of a spider attacking a wasp caught in it's web. "Snore" is probably the word that just dropped out a few of your mouths before you could stop yourselves. Don't worry, I didn't write the paper I just read it so I'm not offended if you aren't interested.
But, this is the interesting part: the fossil in question is 100 Million years old!

That's right, this poor spider, was chilling in his web, for hours, waiting for some poor, sutpid wasp to come along so he could have some dinner. And finally some poor, stupid wasp did land in his web and right as he's about to deliver the killing blow.....

*dramatic pause*

*wait for it*

*do you feel the tension....*

*#building?*

....killing blow... and a quantity of tree resin (amber) chose that moment to engulf both the spider and the wasp.
The article really says it best when it comes to the wasps POV: "This was the wasps worst nightmare, and it never ended... it's large terrified eyes now stare for eternity at it's attacker moving in for the kill."
well, when you say it like that, how could you not feel bad for him?

As far as science goes this is actually pretty cool, because this is the only fossil of a spider actually attacking it's prey, and 15 unbroken strands of spider silk run through the amber piece. and some of them are still stuck to our poor wasp buddy. Which is actually really kinda of cool if you think about it, not cool for the wasp, or the spider either, cuz he died hungry, but cool for us, because, well come on, it's cool!

http://www.macroevolution.net/arachnid-fossils.html
^if you don't believe me just read it for yourself!

Homecoming week!!!!

Homecoming W E E K

That's right. Week. Not day, not game, week. At Sparta (which has the best homecoming around) we literally make it a week long ordeal (no negative connotation on the word ordeal either).
Homecoming is my favorite day/week/thing of the whole entire year!
The Sparta Nation does homecoming like no other.
Every year there is a different theme. All the grades moving through the ranks waiting until they get to be in the senior section wearing their black shirts and hopefully dominating their way to victory and the red apple!
My freshmen year we had 'music' and we killed it rocking out to some elevator music.... yeah, that's right, for freshmen we did pretty darn good.
My sophomore year the theme was 'disney movies' and my class chose toy story.
Junior came along and the theme was 'continents' and my class had Africa.
And finally senior year, 'musicals'. And the senior class chose Rock of Ages. I won't lie to you, I was uber excited to dress up like a groupie!
I was a 4 year mock rock participant and loved it every single time. The practices may be difficult sometimes and frustrating but in the end it's amazing to watch a grade come together and do something so dang cool!

In addition I've perfromed a homecoming routine during the homecoming assembly all four years of high school as a cheerleader. I've got some prettty good memories from that too.
I'm literally estatic that our grade finally had our day and won the red apple, and by a large margin too. Our grade can finally put an end to all the talk about how we lost Sparty Cup in 8th grade because we creamed the juniors this year!

Two of my very best friends were on the homecoming court this year and I made a pretty rockin' sign to support them during the formal assembly. I'm so proud of all of my friends! They're amazing and your friends are definitely a big part of homecoming, because who better to spend my favorite time of year with thatn with my favorite people?

We may have lost the game but our student section was out in full force, just like they always are. If Sparta does one thing right it's students supporting other students. At every event I've ever been to there have been at least a few students their to support their fellow Spartans.

Also, the homecoming dance. Who doesn't love a good dance. I've never had so much fun as I did this year at my senior homecoming. I literally did not realize that the dance was over until the dj anounced that their were only two songs left. I loved my dress, had a great date, went to dinner with a great group of people, and had a blast at the bonfire afterward where we played would you rather :)

I'm sad that this was my last homecoming because this a great part of my life that's drawing to a close, but I couldn't have ended on a better note.

Homecoming was perfect!