Week 7, last blog

This is the last blog of the quarter and I have to admit that I'm glad that this quarter is almost over. This class had been extremely difficult and had completely destroyed my G.P.A. I have tried to understand the content but I just haven't gotten it. Also I ended up taking a class that I didn't need for my program which is a little frustrating. But I have to admit that I have learned some things that have interested me like typing and genetics.my boyfriend and I have been talking about what genetics or phenotypes that or children might have from the both of us. So mostly this week I have been doing little blocks with hair color, eye color and blood type. It is interesting to figure out what ratio of what your children could come out looking like and figuring out blood types.

Also I did one on me for blood type since I don't know what my father is since I never knew him and since I'm A+ and my mom is O+ that makes him an A blood type. I guess that was simple but really before I took this class I had no idea of how all that was determined.

Well all I can do now is try to do okay on this last quiz and final and hopefully I can salvage my G.P.A since my GI Bill is riding on it.

Week 6

Its late, I'm up in the mout 4x4ing. We are so high up that we drove through a thick stormhead which was a little scary because you couldn't see which wag the road went. The air is warm too which you woild think that at this elevation and in the clouds it would be cold. I think its kind of like how in the summer the areas around the sound is cooler in summer and warmer in winter to due the water being able to absorb the heat in summer and release it in winter.

I think that at higher elevations the clouds you higher humidity and water is able to retain heat.

Well that's all I have.

Week 5

I totally forgot about my blog until now. Sometimes this can be so difficult to remember when you have so much other things going on that tend to consume your life.

The week before last I had an appointment for a colposcopy (cervical biopsy). I thought it was interesting that to prepare for the bioposy, to make the cells more visible they apply regular vinager to the cells.

As the doctor was inspecting the cells it was realized that the cells were not spreading and a biopsy did not have to be conducted (so happy). My cells are abnormal and clustered but as long as I go back every year for my pap and HPV tests things should be fine. But I know now that every girl/boy at age of 12, should get the HPV injections to stop this from happening to more people.

Week 4

I really don't know what to write. My brain is boggled with trying to study and memorize a lot of information.  I did have a good blog for this week, but I think I will hold off for next week when I'm not so stressed.

I did see something cool on my sunflowers,  I saw a bee covered in pollen. Bees transport the pollen from the flower to the hive by using the third set of legs. Bees are very important to our ecosystems.

Week 3

   We've been talking about salt, water, and molarity lately. While we've been talking about that, I was thinking about how salt dissolves slugs. The salt causes osmolarity in the slug which causes the slug to dehydrate and shrivels it up. The slug is majorility made up of water. 
   Osmosis which we learned brings things from high water concentration to low water concentration which causes water to absorb from things. I always thought that this was a cool process when I was a kid. I would always go out in the rain to find slugs just to "melt" them. Some say its a cruel way to kill a slug, but its very educational to me to see the process of the salt sucking all the water from the slug and leaving nothing left.

Week 2

I have been trying to figure out what I could write about because I am not very good at these things. So I am going to write a place that I discovered last year that I thought was really cool and now I am a frequent visitior there.
  Last year when I was going to get cat food at PetSmart in Federal Way I saw a frozen yogurt place called SubZero and decided to try it out. This first thing that I saw when I walked in was a huge metal containet of liquid nitrogen and wondered what they used that for. So when I went to order my yogurt it was in a liquid form. After I ordered my flavor and ingredients I wanted in it, they then froze my yogurt with the liquid nitrogen to the consistency that I wanted. As they were freezing it there were a lot of little bubbles of liquid nitrogen floating on the counter.  It was just the coolest thing I ever saw.
So I really don't have much else to write. So I'm gonna end here and get ready to sleep.

Introduction

My name is Mariko.  I am recently separated from Active Army and now am currently in the Reserves. I live in Auburn with my boyfriend. As a person I am too caring to a fault and very stubborn and hard headed. I lack patience and am very much an A type personality. I am taking this class as a pre-req for the Medical Assistant program. There really is nothing that interests me in biology but it is something that I need for my program. I suspect everything in this class will be hard for me. I have never done well in sciences, and expect the quizzes to be harder since I am mostly use to True/False multiple choice questions since I really don't have very good attention span and memory. But I will try my best to at least pass this class. Aiming for a 2.0. We'll see what happens.