#are you in my fucking biology class

[bubu-pharmacy-doctor]

I have a biology exam this morning and it's got an essay :((

Can I have advice? And luck?

I hope it goes well, exams are never fun. If it goes badly, do remember that they are a flawed way of measuring your skill, you shouldn't take a bad grade to mean you're not good at something.

If the essay is a component, read the essay topics before you start answering the other questions. The other questions may give you ideas for topics to discuss.

If you have a habit of writing slower or for longer amounts, take more time on your essay than they recommend. If you write quickly, don't think you'll be able to use some essay time on non-essay questions. Use all of the recommended essay time for the essay.

You want to include as much information as you can, but only if it's relevant.

If your essay question was the importance of enzymes in organisms, if you choose to discuss digestion you would want to include the names of the enzymes and substrates, the bonds they break, the products, why these products are important. Include intermediates, like maltose (starch-maltose-glucose), the fact that there are multiple peptidases - remember dipeptidase, those get forgotten.

If you can think of a more unique topic that is still related, include it. Chances are less people will have thought of it, if you know the topic well, you can get some good points for it.

Take the synaptic response, there are enzymes included in that, even though they are not a major part. Or the secondary messenger model.

If you are not confident of the name of an enzyme, do not name its substrate. If you name acetylcholine and then forget the name of acetylcholinesterase, it will be obvious, so refer to them as "neurotransmitters" and "enzymes", as you can't complete the example. You shouldn't lose anything for naming just one, but it will save you additional stress over forgetting the name.

If you know a topic very well and only one part of it is related, do not spend time on the unrelated parts. Enzymes are involved in the breakdown of neurotransmitters, but not the action potential, so do not spend time describing the all-or-nothing response.

I hope that can help you.

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

I am exhausted, good heavens.

[wow-an-unfunny-joke]

Shout out to autistic people with dumb special interests

We can’t all be into astrophysics and math. Sometimes our special interest is just anime. Sometimes it’s turtles. Sometimes it’s a dumb little book series that does nothing to better the world, has no complex equations or important dates or big math, and won’t help you find a job of any sort.

[outlying-hyppocrate]

according to both my latin-biology teacher and my brother i apparently have a habit of death-staring at people????? @fukounaboy when we meet i just want to apologize in advance for the way my face looks 😔🙏

[mollyrolls]

i need to sleep for like 72 hrs straight

[thefluffiestbird]

I think when Riko was having a shit day he’d put in one of Kevin’s old jerseys

@capcavan

[screechingfromthevoid]

So I was thinking about that modern AU, trying to figure out how to incorporate FCG because robot (literally he's just a pastors son. Duh)

but for some reason my brain said "Ashton's service dog" first. Then I thought about Ashton needing a service dog because of brain stuff. THEN I thought about Ashton needing a service animal AND a mobility aid.

So I'm just living for Ashton in a wheelchair rolling through school. They've got the key to the elevator. They've obviously got a whole dog at school that people try desperately not to pet.

When someone decides to bully FCG (Francis Charles Grady) or Laudna, they get out of their chair to their full height. People freak because they didn't know he could walk or stand. Ashton just shrugs because "you know what they say about assuming"

And when Dorian shows up and asks about it not as tactfully as he probably meant to Ashton pops a wheely and is just like "what's sadder than an orphan with a wheelchair and a service dog? Unfortunately it didn't get me adopted. People just don't want their inspiration porn in house anymore I guess."

And they try to be chill. They try to avoid those harsh topics with their friends because they don't wanna be a bummer. It'd bring down the mood to say "sure I can walk but sometimes my spine is on fire and my calves are full of knives so I don't." It'd suck to say "I can walk fine until I can't." It's not relatable to say "my whole body hurts all the time and if I want to be able to do other things like think, I should probably be sitting."

Slowly their friends get them to understand that they don't have to put on a brave face for them. They don't have to pretend like it doesn't hurt. They don't have to pretend like it doesn't bother them. Their friends care about them. Hell they're even down to help if they can. Anything to make Ashton feel like they are wanted, that they're not a burden.

[irisbaggins]

"My God, your entire life rests on how you do in three exams in your last year." My god Siobhan, same. The whole American experience is wild to me, that last year is where you're done with everything. Last year meant everything for our High Schools, where if I failed even one exam I was fucked. I'd have to take an elective year just for the chance of fixing that fuckup. I was one ball of stress throughout that whole fucking year, and then I got math and biology as my exams. I thought I was going to die.

So, I guess, nice (??) to know someone else at the table had the experience of their last year in HS being a nightmare of a time. Also, horrifying. What is up with us Europeans where everything hinges on just a few exams that are randomly selected and can be in your worst subject?

[scentofpines]

i hate reading philosophy omg. endless sentences of the author throwing around random words that probably only made sense to their own brain and then the insight of these "deep thoughts" is stuff like "people behave differently in different settings" or "people don't always act according to their own values" woooowww. and then there are "differing" perspectives on an issue and i'm sitting there reading those and thinking "but none of that negates the other??? it can both be true??????" oh and then also usually the issue is just that language is ambigous and it can be hard to put your thoughts into words.

[sketchy-galaxy]

This class genuinely makes me want to kill myself i swear to god

[anotherpapercut]

my best advice to anyone who's still in middle/high school is to make your teachers think you are the nicest sweetest purest little goody two shoes on the planet so that you can get away with breaking rules fairly openly bc your teachers either won't believe it or will view it as a very minor issue since you're the perfect student

[vampiricgf]

What did you study?

mortuary sciences but I always loved the humanities lmao I was a weird girl n I still mostly think I only got picked up through rush because they wanted someone they could point to as like see! we have a resident freak! we couldn't possibly be mean girls look at her we let her in!!

[thatoneweirdo14]

SQUEALING

My brain is doing the rotting thing again

[lynaferns]

School is draining any small motivation I had for art

or creativity in general

(tw: I got pretty much depressive in the tags but I needed to dump this somewhere and this may not be the best place but is where I feel better talking about my problems or insecurities, so feel free to ignore)

[unopenablebox]

procrastinating finishing the last like paragrpah of thsi thing so hard that i finally tracked down my 2011-2015 tumblr after i lost the url (lmao)

and ok it is actually a little fun and cute reading my high school biology class blogging as a professional biologist, that’s kind of neat

[50c14lly4nx10u5]

god get me out of this hell hole (university) it's worse than high school

whyyyyy are you making me learn this stupid software i don't caarrrreeee about your programming software