Tuesday, March 15, 2005

   Utter Confusion! Utter Confustion!!
*whines* I got- hey look! A cardnal! ^^ heh heh -a PM from some'ne Sunday, or 'least it ~said~ from Sunday, and it confused me to the ends of the earth! I wont say who it's from. But it was talking about biotechnology, which I am currently taking...but here is where the utter confusion comes in! See I don't remember telling anyone that I'm taking biotech. especialy not that person (no affence meant, it just never really came up I think) and I don't know how this person could've found out. I'm not trying to keep secrets or anything, it's just kinda like I was/am being stocked. *stops to think* .......... Nevermind. *scudles away to write PM* Okay...umm.....

I'm studying biotechnology in TAG, Plus, or more commonly, Mrs. Loescher’s class. TAG (pronounced the way it's spelled, none of that T.A.G. nonsense) stands for Talented And Gifted. They haven't called it that in a year or two, but it's still hanging out it the hallway.

It's a small classroom. We have *thinks* six square tables in the room (that's all that can fit), a projector, two lab top computers (both Mrs. Loescher's), two walls of cabinets, two spiny-computer chairs, a stool, a bookshelf-cart type thing, and a student teacher ratio of 19:1.

Out of the, ohhhh, two hundred or so eighth graders in our building, ~19~ are in this class. It usually stays the same; the same people are in it year after year. Once, you’re in, there’re only two ways to get out. 1) You drop the class, or 2) you’re asked to leave. No one that I know of has been asked to leave.

Last year, the year I joined, we studied Microbiology. We made yogurt! ^_^ And studied diseases, I did Mad Cow Disease. It was fun. Renee (friend) told the history of yogurt through song: Oh Baby, Baby. It, too, was fun. She choreographed too! We were going to perform it for Culture Fair, but it was canceled. That made me sooo mad.

This year we are studying Biotechnology. I think it’s gotten harder, but still fun. At the very beginning, we did some weird unit to find our learning style. I’m an Analytical. My runners up were Personal and Divergent, which are probably the most opposite of them all. Oh well.

Anyways, about the biotechnology. We were given absolute freedom. We just had to study a bit about cells as a group to learn and relearn what we forgot from last year and some more scientific names. We learned about DNA, how cells make a protein, the scientific name for everything, and last about cloning and gene splicing. I didn’t get gene splicing right away, but once it clicked, I understood.

Where “our true freedom” lies is in our topic in Biotech and our project. All we have is a criteria and resources. I chose Marine Biology cuz Haruki is big on it and I was curious why. I think I found out. It is really interesting. I’m doing a power point on sea turtles, over fishing, and pollution.

Ummm bye.
~Taleybo (.....U-dono is in it too)
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