Summer 10' :]

To be honest, when I first walked into Mr. Tisor's room, I was excited to be in Bio once again, at more fast paced level. But then he assigned a book for us to read over the summer, and thats when I thought to myself, "crap, this is going to turn out like AP English and I'm gonna have to read some boring book assigned by school". But then, I started reading it, and to be frank, I'm really liking this book. I thought it would be a boring scientist (paleontologist) writing a book about dead fish in the sea that are now fossils, and it is, but in a more exciting and in a way, attractive countenance. Shubin actually caught my interest from the very first page, and that's not something that occurs often. I really got into the whole fish connecting to human deal and it really got me thinking how life has come to be the way it is over the time of the earth's birth. The other day I was at my friends house, and he has a fish tank. I stood staring at the fish scrutinizing them for about 5 minutes at least just watching them and trying to relate myself to them. It was pretty funny. :] BTW. One of my main goals for this summer was to not procrastinate with summer homework, because I realize that distributing the work over the summer makes the load ten times less. One of the things that makes reading Shubin's book so easy is the fact that he has diagrams and maps and drawings of the things he writes about, which gives me a perfect visual and makes the book alot easier to understand. Plus the writing style, ironically, is vey benign, and very easy to read. I thought it'd be difficult because I assumed Shubin would use fancy scientific words that none of us would know about. Hence Tiktaalik, which Shubin makes vivid by giving a description of it as a "large freshwater fish". I haven't started my notes yet, but I think that i'm doing pretty good on my mid-year resolution. BTW. I think is astonishing that the arctic gets 24 hours of sunlight during the summer. When I read that, I paused and asked myself, "did I just read that?" and then I read it over and over again 5-6 times to make sure I wasn't lying to myself. It's funny how we learn something new everyday, and even funnier realizing that it occurs in the world we live in. We think we know so much, but in reality, we know NOTHING. I look forward to writing on this blog during summer. :]

P.S. Have a great Summer

, Anany