oh school...

it feels like the whole christmas break never even happened. sitting in class, i feel like i never left. blah.

anyway, i've had 3 of my 4 classes so far today.

cell biology, although may kill me, will be damn interesting. it will be like genetics. i loved genetics, i just sucked at it. the prof gave us a list of about a thousand words and we're expected to know all of them and their definitions. dun dun dun....

and ecology? yeah, that's probably going to be the most awful, boring class ever. but we'll see how it goes i guess.

the philosophy class is pretty much the same as the ethics class from last term because it's the same prof. except she has a group project/presentation thing. balls. i hate group projects. the funniest thing about this class is my ta from one of my biology classes last term, the one who was in my ethics class, he's in this class with me again. it's funny because he made a huge deal about wanting to drop the class and i told him not to so we could be philosophy buddies. haha i know that he didn't actually stay in the class to be my philosophy buddy. it's just funny.

i really want to do well this term. i'm really going to try to stay on top of the readings and those stup - i mean lovely definitions for cell bio. he said that if you don't know anything but those definitions, you'll get a B in the class. so that's encouraging.

now i have one more bio class this afternoon. i still can't remember what it's called... ok, plants and civilization. this is what the descriptions says:

The course covers the botany, domestication, development,
distribution, production, processing, history and economic and
social impacts of plants which have become major world crops.
Topics include the cereals (corn, rice and wheat), flowers (tulips
and orchids), fruits (apple, blueberry, citrus, grape, olive, pineapple
and strawberry), vegetables (alliums, beets, legumes, lettuce,
potato and tomato) and industrial crops (cocoa, coffee, cotton,
hemp, rubber and sugar), and the development of novel
bioproducts (bio-fuels, etc) from plant sources. Course includes
field trips and laboratories.

yippie skippie... why did i sign up for this again? haha we'll see how it goes. it probably won't be that bad. it's cross listed as an environmental studies course so i don't think it will be that intense. i'm curious about the field trips though...

and you know what i just noticed? it lists tomato as a vegetable. i thought tomato was a fruit... it actually makes sense that the tomato is a fruit. a fleshy fruit. because it contains the seeds. so it's the ripened ovary of the tomato plant. beets, legumes, lettuce and potato are nothing like a tomato. hmm...curious...