I didn't wake up till noon today after staying up past 1am looking at food blogs. I was starving when I went to bed after looking at all the delicious recipes!
My first week of school went pretty well. On Tuesday morning my very first class of the semester was my Heath Psychology and Behavioral Medicine class and the very first word my teacher said was "SHIT!" She couldn't get her computer to work because all the classrooms run on PC's while she's grown up with macs. I can feel her pain! I love this class! I absolutely love the way she thinks. Thursday we were talking about the health care system and how it's probably the biggest financial burden the US faces and obviously something needs to change. I finally agree that we do need a heath care reform and it's not some scary democratic thing, it's a serious issue. However, she doesn't believe that social health care will work, it's just not a possibility in America because we're not going to want to wait 6 months to be treated because of our "I want it now" agenda. I totally agree with her!
Which brings me to my Health Discipline class. The first day I went to that class I came in thinking the whole class was a joke and an easy A but a total bore. However on Friday my mind was completely changed. It's main focus is on health education and I realized that I may want a profession in public health or health education. I've always had a negative attitude on all the public health organizations, for some reason I just think they're a bunch of dimwits. But adolescent obesity is such a problem and I think it would be rewarding if you could change America's view on a healthy lifestyle.
As for my genetics class, I have a super nice old guy as my professor and I love him! He told us the FUNNIEST story on Thursday! We're reviewing Mendel's studies and dominant and recessive genes and at the beginning of class he had us taste test PTC paper to see if we were tasters or non-tasters of the bitter preservative solution. I have a recessive gene (tt) for the non-tasters which means both mom and dad are either heterozygous (Tt) or recessive like me :)
Anyways, his funny story: One of the first years he worked for A&M the school had asked him to set up a little table to kind of give perspective students an idea of what his class deals with for an orientation. He realized a lot more people showed up than just high school seniors, lots of families from the town came as well. His set up was of this PTC paper and he had a big tally board to make marks so he can show the dominance of the taster trait. During the day a middle aged man came up to the table to test if he had the taster gene. He couldn't taste anything but smiled and said he'd be back. Moments later he came back with a woman (presumably his wife) and his 3 kids. His wife put the paper in her mouth but couldn't taste anything. So you know both the parents are both recessive (tt) and it should be impossible for any of the kids to be able to taste it. His first oldest kid took the test an didn't taste anything, the middle child took the test and didn't taste anything, then the put a piece of paper in their 6 month old's mouth and immediately the baby had a fit and spit the paper out and went ballistic from the horribly bitter taste... The father was immediately suspicious and it was long enough ago to where paternity tests weren't done often. My teacher didn't know what to say. He asked if either of them smoke because that can have an effect on the gene. Neither of them did. My teacher didn't know what else to say other than it doesn't necessarily mean it's not his baby and they eventually left. Haha ooops.....
That's about all the exciting news for my week. Nothin else too intersting other than the countless job applications i'm filling out. 7 are completed. I have about 5-6 more to do and hopefully someone will want me! Anybody? Please???
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