Who isn't excited about it? I just want to get there now! A new beginning, doing all the things one loves and more! I mostly hope to learn more about (any kind of) science! Maybe the astronomy class there will teach me more than what the names of the planet in the solar system are... I've always been curious about what's out there, or even at home in our oceans! I mostly just like how to learn how things work, thus my interest in chemistry, and then combine that with biology and you will get a mad woman! I love when I learn things like the heart beats because of redox (reduction-oxidation) reactions that occur to give the heart electricity to beat (1). Taking such advanced classes will teach me more things like my instance.
I did an argumentative research paper on embryonic stem cell research in my AP Language and composition a few months ago. I learned that bioartificial organs are a huge potential to replace the need for organ donors and save thousands of people. I know it's a potential because (2) the first heart was implanted in a woman 3 years ago and the heart is still going strong, it works just like a real heart and has not decreased quality of the performance. Things like these is what drives me towards science, knowledge and discovery.
The pre-collegiate Health Sciences Program is helping me take some extra classes and getting ahead with information I would otherwise have to wait to learn next year. Since high school won't allow me to take all the classes I want, at least it's a little balanced by having some classes now. Sadly, there's no photography :(
1- Brown & LeMay’s Chemistry: the Central Science, 10th ed, Pearson/PrenticeHall, 2006
2- Lenzer, Jeanne. "THE SUPER CELL." Discover Magazine Nov. 2009: 30-36. Student Research
I did an argumentative research paper on embryonic stem cell research in my AP Language and composition a few months ago. I learned that bioartificial organs are a huge potential to replace the need for organ donors and save thousands of people. I know it's a potential because (2) the first heart was implanted in a woman 3 years ago and the heart is still going strong, it works just like a real heart and has not decreased quality of the performance. Things like these is what drives me towards science, knowledge and discovery.
The pre-collegiate Health Sciences Program is helping me take some extra classes and getting ahead with information I would otherwise have to wait to learn next year. Since high school won't allow me to take all the classes I want, at least it's a little balanced by having some classes now. Sadly, there's no photography :(
1- Brown & LeMay’s Chemistry: the Central Science, 10th ed, Pearson/PrenticeHall, 2006
2- Lenzer, Jeanne. "THE SUPER CELL." Discover Magazine Nov. 2009: 30-36. Student Research
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Great enthusiasm and especially an open mind! It's fabulous you had a chance to take an AP class to explore something as complex and controversial as stem cell research. A big deal these days from a scientific perspective but also from the point of view of bioethics, both really interesting. Nice job Diana.
ReplyDeleteLilian Hoffecker
Research Librarian
HSL-AMC
ps - I like that you cited references!