Biology is a really great thing. All through high school, I purposfully (but subconsciously) failed all my science classes because I convinced myself that I could not “do” science – I thought my brain didn’t work that way. At the time, we were all into being diiiferent and unique and artsy and fartsy and radical . . . science was somehow much too rigid and not-unique so I failed it on purpose (although I didn’t know at the time).
But now that I feel a much greater sense of responsibility towards my learning – in the sense that no one is really expecting me to go to school right now – I could drop out and it would not effect anyone but me – my parents wouldn’t care since I already have a degree and these classes are not costing them a dime in any event. So, anyway, now that I am taking Biology because I WANT to and not because I have to – I think I might REALLY like science.
It’s the craziest thing thing I have ever encountered, once I started understanding just how much every part of my body is doing at all times. It has given me a really wonderful perspective on almost everything. I wish I had taken Biology in college because, all through my four years, I just thought about people and social systems and human interaction and feminism mostly – but cellular respiration. . . . fuck! DNA in a skin cell. . . . DNA replication . . . DNA in general. Fuck.
The genetics part of Biology really got me. Godamn punnett squares I could do for hours.
It’s a shame that Biology is not a requirement in college – but at the same time, probably a good thing. If I had been forced to take science classes during college, I probably would have responded to them in the same way that I did in high school and I would not have learned a thing. But I wish that I had really understood about the human body long before this. I’m genuinely excited and biting my godamn nails for when I start Anatomy and Physiology and Genetics.
