What I learned, May 25, 2012
Your boarding pass must have your destination. Otherwise, TSA does not like you.
The number of lesbian and gay households has risen 72% in the last decade.
2/3 of the children in the US live with married, happy, couples.
What I learned. Thursday, April 19, 2012
- The close-ness of finals is directly related to my stress and forgetfullness factor.
- Phoenix Arizona has opened a LGBTQ school called Q high. http://www.hrc.org/blog/entry/phoenix-opens-its-first-lgbt-high-school
- Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream is very yummy.
- Dr. Dillon really likes sugar… and vanilla.
- I am the first of Dr. Dillon’s students to to combine 4-chlorobenzonitrile and NH2NH2OH. The melting point was about 217-218 degrees Celsius.
- ANNE’S DAUGHTER IS SO SUPER CUTE!
What I learned. Monday, April 16, 2012
This morning I wrote:
My character needs a lot of work. All the ideals in my head have not manifested themselves in my body or my actions. My distain for the human race has taken over my being and where I made a space for my love of people, I have filled it with a much darker feeling. This needs to change.
Now that this is more out there in my head I will have to hold myself accountable for my movement forward or my stagnancy.
Later I wrote:
I am on this earth to learn and grow.
We are all here to learn and grow and experience all that life has to give, the good and the bad.
People come into our life for a reason. We are put in situations in order for us to learn and grow.
I was put in this situation to learn about who I am and why. Because of this experience, I have learned that I do not like who I am. I don’t like my outlook, my situation or my reactions. I must take time to relax, to sit back and think, and forgive.
Last year taught me to be alone. This year, I have learned more of who I am and who I want to be. Tonight , I have learned why I am here and I look forward to seeing and learning all that life has to show me.
I hope this feeling stays and that this life will continue to teach me. I just have to stop and listen.
I know that it is choppy but that is how my brain works when I am learning and beginning to understand things.
OTHER THINGS I LEARNED:
- My biology exam was posted online before I had to take it today.
- I need to learn to re-read questions really slowly.
- ID cards do not belong under soda machines. Though they don’t like to come out.
- I actually understood chapter 19 in Organic Chemistry better than I thought I did.
- To make a series you can use Taylor’s formula, a ‘known’ series (like e to the x, sinx, cosx) A geometric series, newton’s binomial series, and the derivative and anti-derivative of the function.
- To test for convergence, use the ratio test and find an interval for x.
- Some prisons do not allow their inmates to posses stamps or addressed envelopes to other places.
- Mechanisms for chapter 19. These are hard to display on tumblr. Sorry guys.
What I learned Saturday April 14, 2012
A centriole is an orgenelle that organizes microtubles during nuclear division.
A centrosome is the main microtuble in the spindle
A centromere is where all the chromatids are connected, aka. the center part of the x shape.
Apparently my study patterns are not good. I only got through 1 of 6 chapters for my exam on Monday and I studied from 9-2 with a small break for food.
Never EVER spend time doing your hair if you are going to an 8-year-old’s party. He will only give you noogies (I’m not sure how to spell that) and try to steal your brain. : D
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What I learned. Wednesday, April 11, 2012
- STRs make up alleles which make up your phenotype, which makes your phenotype which is your physical appearance.
- Only 3% of our genes are actually functional
- When doing DNA we are actually using STRs.
- The more STRs that match, the less the chance that you could find someone in the world with the same matches.
- There is a section of DNA that is referred to as the TATA box. Despite what you are thinking, it does not code for a woman’s breast. Instead it is the place where DNA begins to denature and expose the template strand. This is where the regulatory proteins and the RNA polymerase bind together to begin transcription in Eukaryotes.
- There is a really interesting product out there called a Life Straw. that is used to filter undrinkable water and make it drinkable. It has been used to cut down the deaths from diarrhea in young children in places that do not have sustainable drinking water. This type of action is called Point of use treatment, meaning it works as you are using it. Compared to a large cleaning/filtering facility, these are relativelyinexpensive at $20. If you would like to learn more please go to: http://www.vestergaard-frandsen.com/lifestraw There is even a place to donate life straws to less fortunate people!
- You can add ketones to other ketones with the use of a base that creates a good leaving group.
- Bata=keto carboxylic acids lose carbon dioxide when heated.
- There is a guy named Taylor who decided to make a theorem that is supposed to be easy to use but because I do not understand it, it is making my life hell. As soon as I get it figured out… I’ll let you know : )
- I LOVE RAIN!!!!!!
What I learned today, Tuesday, April 10, 2012
- There are many ways a company can screw up and sometimes it is up to the little guy (or gal) to go through and fix small previous mistakes so that the company may retain a better name for itself.
- I have to submit my application for research grant by tomorrow at for or else, no fun forensic research for me. : (
- Dressing for court is a hard thing to do.
- Even though someone may look tough and mean, they may turn out to be a really great person. (This occurs in the opposite direction as well.)
- You never know until you ask
- “The task ahead of you is never as great as the power behind you.”
- I should never EVER plan to get homework done in a car. I will get sick.
- Dani Shay is on the Glee Project this season.
- To find a power series for f(x)= 3arctan(x) one must use the integral of 3/(1+x^2) which can now be treated as a geometric series, cause it is one.
- I can get a lot of work done if I set my mind to it. The problem is, there is always more.
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