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I love science...

I love science. I haven’t written about this, yet, have I? I love science so incredibly much. I have no idea what happened. In high school I was Ms. French Club-AP English-Drama Club-President of Concert Choir AND the Music Honor Society artsy-fartsy little girl…I hated science. I kind of liked chemistry, but I think that was because my instructor was so crazy. I hated biology. Never took physics.

In college, I had to take one physical science and one life science for my general education requirements. I took “Rocks for Jocks” (Geology 1001) to fulfill the physical science requirement, and, because one of my good friends was a TA for General Bio and told me that she would never let me suffer that much, I took Anthropology for my life science. And during all that, I was either a theatre major or a women’s studies major. I may have briefly been an English major. But you get my point. Oh—and I also cried my entire way through college algebra.

But now that I have to take all these science classes for school, I am absolutely loving them. LOVE THEM. Despite the utterly disorganized chemistry instructor last semester, loved chemistry class. Stoichiometry and I had a real thing going. That and predicting products from reactants in aqueous solutions. Such a blast! And I whined every week about going to lab, but it always turned out to be the best part of my week (other than run club). I worked hard in chemistry class because I loved it so much, and my efforts will eventually show, once my chemistry instructor corrects my grade.

Now, I’m in Bio. It’s only been a couple of weeks, but so far I’m loving it too. I actually read some NON-ASSIGNED chapters on ecology the other night because I thought that it was so interesting. What’s happening to me?? I used to be really good at writing long winded papers on feminist theory; now I’m good at finding out how many mols are in 356 grams of C6H12O6 (1.98 mol). It’s crazy. Tonight, I’m going to go home, eat dinner, and then read about “Water and the Fitness of the Environment.” And I’m going to LIKE IT. Then I will of course do yoga and watch “30 Rock,” talk to Abe, and read some “Harry Potter.” I do have some fun, people.

I love science. I love it so much, I wonder if maybe I should be a science teacher instead of a nurse. Then I would get to take all sorts of crazy cool classes like Organic Chemistry and Genetics. Then I would get to be a crazy Bio teacher like Mrs. Molter and perform weird experiments and make my students bake a cake in the shape of a cell, and use all sorts of frosting and sprinkles to form the organelles and membranes (yes, folks, that is all I remember from high school biology). FUN!

posted by Lola @ 3:23 PM