Week Number One

This week in biology, we presented our cell models. Sophie and I were partners. Our cell model presentation went surprisingly well considering the situation. As we stood up to go to the front of the class, our model broke off from its string that was supporting it and as it fell, one of our vacuole water balloons busted and one of the mitochondria fell off. 

    This is our model after we finished our presentation, so the damage had already been done. 

For our presentation, http://cellsalive.com/cells/cell_model.htm was very useful.

We had two of each so both were still represented though. Mr. Vogler also introduced our next project, the organism collection field study.
I've enjoyed Biology so far, I really like that we are left to be somewhat self-sufficient. Learning new things on your own makes them easier to remember, in my opinion. We have played a couple of Kahoots in class and those are always fun. Mrs, Vestal used them with our Spanish I class last year as well. 
Our lab on Friday (that carried over to this Monday) was really cool. We looked at onion, elodea, and human cheek cells. The chloroplasts in the elodea cells were very distinctive. The only other microscope I've ever used was a small kit when I was little which had far less magnification power and it's a crime to even try to compare the two.

I've enjoyed Biology so far and I'm looking forward to this coming year!

Who Am I?

Even though I really don't like talking about myself, here we go.

I'm Laura Walker. I am constantly working on something, whether it be a school project or some small personal project. I like sketching random things, mostly people and canines, but I despise coloring. My favorite subject in school is math. I easily remember numbers, they just seem to stick in my head. I have OCD, which makes high school life challenging with all the chaos going on. I play soccer and I used to run hurdles in middle school but now that girls' soccer is in the spring I can't run track at the same time. 

Whenever you ask me in person what I want to do with my life, I probably won't respond with any solid answer. I am interested in engineering but I am also considering a career studying how the human mind works.