trip | 26 | he/him | biology major
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how do you deal with a professor that doesn't give you any kind of instruction or assignments and just throws exams at you? i even cross checked my answers with my notes and i somehow got a 77.61%. this professor claims that "all college science courses are like this" and that there is no review, no assignments, nothing. our "homework" she assigned us was a single true/false question about the olympics. what does that have to do with biology? i'm so over it. i've studied my ass off and this is what happens.
taking my biology exam today at foxtrot. chicagoans know how excited i am that this place is open again!
i know i keep posting the same setup. but it’s okay! i like it. i’m going to a cafe to study on saturday, though. :)
On this day in 1936, the last known thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) died at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania. The animal’s passing marked the extinction of its species. Also known as the “Tasmanian wolf,” the thylacine was Australia’s largest marsupial predator. It sported a dog-like form, with distinctive stripes, and a jaw that could open up to 80 degrees—one of the largest gapes of any mammal.
The thylacine fed primarily on small mammals and birds. Nocturnal and shy, it was seldom seen by humans. However, beginning in the 19th century, settlers believed the animals threatened their livestock and, spurred on by a bounty offered by the government, hunted them relentlessly. Attempts at protecting the species in the wild came too late: Despite numerous unconfirmed reports of sightings in recent decades, no definitive sightings have occurred since the 1930s.
i'm not even a month into school and i've been deadnamed by a professor...i'm a big bearded man...why are you deadnaming me, my name is in my email?
my new notion is super cute isn't it? yes, it's majima themed....and pink...
Anomalopteryx didiformis AKA the little bush Moa
A bone from a fossil had its DNA examined and scientists were able to see what natural abilities the bird had when it was alive; like seeing in the ultraviolet spectrum.
Located in New Zealand for millions of years until humans arrived.
goals for september
ACADEMIC GOALS
keep up with all assignments, and submit them at least two or three days early
at least 1-2 hours of studying per day, including khan academy fo math
keep an A in every class i'm in
go to tutoring at least twice this month for math
WORK GOALS
keep up with grooms
gain 200+ followers this month for our salon instagram
PERSONAL GOALS
deep clean the house once a week
RESET SUNDAYS consistently!!
get insurance via the marketplace!
talk to stephanie about new poodle puppy, get some supplies
before work i've been listening to positive news podcasts and stuff like that, and it's really been helping me mentally. i'm not listening to as much true crime stuff anymore because i don't like the headspace it puts me in and i don't like how a lot of tc podcasters treat the cases they work with. but i'm gonna try waking up a little earlier and doing some yoga or meditation before work :) i feel a lot better when i have more time!
i have all A's in my classes after submitting my assignments and i feel fantastic :) 100% in every class so far!!! i'm really doing it!!!
sometimes i wish i had the time to go to nice cafes and study. even though i live super close to so many (northside chicago is full of awesome coffee) i work full time and am always working so i don't exactly have time to study anywhere that isn't home. once i own this business my employers are looking to sell me, maybe then i will have time to just...exist...maybe my body won't hurt from grooming dogs all day :(
it's 12:00AM and i submitted a math assignment at 11:55. i couldn't figure out how to do a problem so i watched a bunch of youtube videos on the kind of problem and you'll never guess what happened--i understood. i really understood! i've always struggled with math but here i am! doing it and understanding!
honestly, i know people hate to hear it, but going outside for a little while, or practicing mindfulness (how about both?) will so help you--YES, even if you are autistic or have adhd, or both. i'm both, and gods above does yoga help me wind down or focus. set aside some time to meditate. it helps!
a nice cherry mocktail while im in class :)
first day of classes was also my last class for the week! my professor was really cool. i’ll enjoy math, i think.
starting august 22nd, i go back to school for real this time...everything is set up and paid for, i'm ready. i'm so excited. i've waited 8 years for this. almost an entire decade of waiting.
Scanning electron microscopy is awesome and I personally think the images it produces are gorgeous but objectively speaking I feel like it doesn't do any favors at all for the "scary" cultural image of insects, because I mean, here's a closeup of a carpet beetle in its true colors:
And here's an SEM image that comes up for carpet beetles on google:
And the thing about SEM images is that they aren't "photographs;" they are computer scans. They're 3-d digital models generated by scanning an object at the molecular level. Color is not preserved by this process, and if it were all the specimens would look like metal anyway (I'll explain this is in a moment), so images like this had to be colored artificially. This isn't done to recreate the true colors, but to make different body parts more visible as study material, resulting in scientific images of wacky blueberry fleas:
The subtly varying transparency levels of living tissues are completely lost as well, which is why the fine hairs of insects stand out more like cactus thorns in SEM imagery, and tardigrades look like opaque leathery things with no eyes:
...Even though a tardigrade actually has eyes, they're just under the surface of a crystal clear exoskeleton:
Another thing that probably contributes to the uncanniness of SEM images is also the fact that they can only show us embalmed corpses encased in liquid metal.
It's not possible to do this fine level of scanning "instantaneously" enough for it to work on anything that's still moving, so even when you see scanning electron images of animals in various lifelike poses, it's because they're preserved specimens that were carefully positioned, or they were live specimens basically "flash frozen" by a sudden dehydration process, mummified so fast they never knew it. Many specimens are then "sputter coated," meaning they're sprayed with a thin (like microns thin) layer of liquid gold, platinum or other fine metal in order for the electrons to perfectly bounce off of every subatomic detail and produce that perfect scan. So this is a live fruit fly:
And this is a fruit fly mummy with probably some sort of chrome plating:
Energy Management
A human-based organization method
click on images for better resolution; images also available here (link to google drive)
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Getting stuff done: How to deal with a lack of motivation
Flexible time-blocking: A more breathable way to get things done
The ABCDE Method
hi yall, im trip, a 26 year old biology major with a love for the gym and all things cute :)
i'll be posting here as i go back into school (i haven't been able to afford college for 8 years so i'm really excited), with a bit of a focus into being an autistic, trans college student.
i'm an artist and purebred dog fancier outside of school. my whole reason for my degree is to better the lives of purebred dogs and developing new health testing for preservation breeders. <3
let's be mutuals!