#717; the girl in the dress wrote you a song
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Mugging with a to-do list is much more productive than I'd expected :) And I'm starting to realise which subjects I really enjoy, and which subjects I just can't seem to appreciate, try as I might (despite genes I'm supposed to have, I don't know how my mum speaks of Physics with so much passion and excitement and I just cannot understand why so many things
just are).
I asked my brother what his favourite subject was in secondary school, and he replied immediately, geog. Then I asked him, why didn't you take it in JC? (He went from trip science geog to KI, ELL, ME) And he just said, I don't like human geog. I have no idea why that left such a great impression on me and I don't think it's helping me shape my JC subject choices in any way but, yeah. -I really need to stop thinking about future things and focus on studying hahaha everyone keeps telling me to ):
Think I've said this a lot of times before but I guess it's quite sad how I only start appreciating subjects that I can when it comes to exam period, when it comes to the point that I really have to sit down and learn it all. But I love how the secondary 4 curriculum is so interlinked, how you look at genes and phosphodiester bonds and you think of phosphates and their valency and what makes DNA negatively charged. And then you look at all the topics we've been learning so far for Bio and realise it's all within your egg cell and what spirals out from that. Writing out GMO notes just now just made me think - it's not in the learner's objectives and not in the slides but I know there's this whole controversy about GMO and ethics and yet the slides only mention the benefits of GMO, and even that in such technical terms (disease resistance, quicker maturity) but fail to mention the thing I find most important - that this is what's feeding the hungry in developing countries.
And like what Jocie said- only very, very few of us are going to use all this information in some way or another when we grow up, maybe everything we're learning is completely pointless when it comes to the rest of our lives but I guess what it gives us is just this simple awareness? At least if we'll never remember which polymerase sets what in action, we'll always know that DNA -> mRNA -> proteins -> us hohoho.
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