What is that phrase supposed to mean anyway? Is that supposed to help my current situation in the lack of understanding I seem to experience when it comes to the study of life? Biology is apparently the study of life, living things. I hate it. I have never been so frustrated with something in my whole life. Even when you are in school and you say, "I hate this", it doesn't even compare with the negative emotion I feel toward biology.
So, it doesn't help when my teacher answers my repetitive questions along with the scrunched up confused look on my face with a..."It's really simple, once you understand it." Ya so I guess if I never understand it (which I DO NOT) then it is not simple (which is IS NOT).
I also see how I am completely an English girl, I even said in biology today, "if I were to compare grasping this concept like grasping something with my hands, I only have my pinky finger barely touching it." My lab partner said I should be a philosophy major. I would probably love philosophy then, as long as it has nothing to do with genetics, reproduction, photosenthesis...blah blah blah. I don't mind learning about things even if they are hard, but this is beyond the "hard" this is just completely in another language. If I were to read a sign in Hebrew I could probably understand that better than my biology book.
I am going to try my best though. I think I have come to accept that if I get a C it will be a miracle. If I get an F, well, I can say that I paid hundreds of dollars to learn that I will NEVER want to be anything that has to do with biology. I can also say I learned that if you don't get it, then it's not simple.
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i completely relate anne! dang. let me explain something. i took chemistry my freshman year in college because sarah needed it for nursing and i needed some science class. instead of taking the easy road and doing something like oh i don't know, earth science, i took chemistry... i know what H20 is... i went to every study group, i asked a billion questions... i tried making a song to the elements chart (or whatever you call it)... i barely got a C. holy buckets - it was a nightmare. on top of which i took the second semester chemistry without taking the first which every other student in the class took, so not only was i a photography student in a chemistry class with wanna be dr.'s and nurses but i was just taking the second semester! idiot! so the whole "it's really simple... once you get it line" please that is a bunch of silly putty. i mean let's just say, if you fail biology i wouldn't recommend chemistry.... try astrology, the teacher gives all the answers the day before the test because everyone else skips.
I think lindsayblake is talking about astronomy, not astrology. Because astrology is pretty much a cult trying to tell peoples fortunes and future by the stars.
opps, see science wasn't my thing.
This is why science is a crock...
“A scientist had a bird in his hand. He wanted to find out in what part of the bird’s body its life was and what the life itself was. So he began dissecting the bird. The result was that the very life of which he was in search mysteriously vanished. Those who try to understand the inner life merely intellectually will meet with a similar failure. The life they are looking for will only vanish."
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