Wednesday, November 16, 2011

A Few Interesting Notes from Class

     "Can I go get my paper that's due today out of my car?"
     "Nothing's due today," the teacher said, (with a confused, almost disgusted, maybe snobby face).
     "I thought we had those two questions due today?"
     "No those aren't due till next tuesday," the teacher snapped back at the girl, with the same look on his face.
  
     Point: My marine science teacher is an asshole. Obviously this girl got her work done, and I promise you I haven't done it yet. Why did he snap at her like that? I felt like it was really uncalled for. So uncalled for it confused me.

A few interesting notes from class:

  • Jellyfish are considered plankton!
  • Panktos is greek for 'wandering'
  • Silicate is glass! SiO2 also known as 'quartz'
I like those few moments in class where I'm like 'Woah! Thats actually cool!' They don't happen very often, and it's usually useless information that won't show up on a test.

A few days later I learned even more interesting things:

  • Bathypelagic Organisms: "Some of this stuff looks straight out of a nightmare." -my marine science teacher
  • Male Angler Fish: The males don't have to do anything! They just have to exist, and deliver sperm. I want a relationship like that.
  • Land animals come from fish with swim bladders that adapted so that they could take oxygen out of the air in the swim bladders, aka lungs! Thus creating the first amphibians thus creating the first land animals!
  • Every living thig has a weak electrical field. 
A bunch of minor things I learned that are really cool, but probably are not going to be on the final exam. Sucks.