I learned something about myself today
I was typing up my intro for my Physical Science class and I just kept typing, just letting the words flow without even really “thinking”…I love when those moments come.
I enjoy Science as it runs hand in hand with ever-expanding technology. I need to know how things work and why they work and how it was all figured out to begin with. Until I can wrap my mind around it all, I can be quite stubborn as I try to read and see too much into things that can be quite simple. I am also the same person who argued in high school Science that there was no way that Isaac Newton was laying under an apple tree and watched an apple fall to the ground and wondered why it fell down and didn’t go up. I did say stubborn, right? I have since learned that I am just like Newton. I see something so simple that no one even thinks about differently, and I want to know why it is the way it is. Until I figure it out, I won’t let it rest.
But, I am also very strict in my morals and beliefs that Science can cross the line between what is right and wrong, and that line is a very thin line. Who’s right and wrong it is can be questioned at any given point. Most of the time it’s my standards. So, you won’t even find me cloning a sheep or growing ears off the back of a mouse.
I suspect this class will further my need to know…well, know whatever it is I feel I “knead” [sic] to know at this time. I will get my hands dirty and wring my head around the subjects and information I didn’t know I had an yearning to learn until it came to be in front of me.
My mother-in-law and uncle (in-law) were saying yesterday that I will be 50 years old and still in college just because I need to know. That is very likely. But at one point, I hope to find myself not having student loans to pay off.
