The Perfect Duo: Chemistry and Zoology
What am I after all? Who am I? A mere creature of God. Yes, a creature made out of clay and molded skilfully by the powerful hands of Him whom we call Father. He made me just like that, and for what reason? To suffer the temptations herein? Am I really important? What am I in this world? To eat, play, drink, and study? Study. Why do we have to study? To gain knowledge and be superior overall beings here on earth? Or do I study merely because of pride so I may not be counted among the ignorant idlers. Why do we have to study and take examinations? Why not let life be only for eating, sleeping, or pleasure. Why do we have to suffer the pains of the damned? Why was I born? Why babies have to leave their mother’s womb when it is much secured there than outside. There you’re kept warm and you don’t have to bother about food, clothing, or shelter. Lastly, why do mothers have to suffer just so we can be brought out into this world. They love us, and yet, very often we fight them when we are grown-up. I don’t think that is right. One should never give his parents cause for worry. God created us in order to be happy with him after death… why do we have to die before we can see God?
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That was a piece that I got from a book (actually, it were some of my high school classmates who discovered it) when I was still in high school for an oral examination in English. If I’m not mistaken, the author of this piece is unknown, but if you know who he or she is, please let me know.
Have you asked yourself with those kind of questions. In my case, yes. And most of the times, I don’t get the answers. And if I have, it would lead to yet another question. One of the questions that I always asked myself is the one that I bolded.
Yes, okay, it is a fact that we should learn in order to know something. But why do we need to know those unnecessary things? Let’s have Math for example, even if I like it so much that I would gladly trade it with Philosophy if given the chance, I still don’t get the point why do we have to know algebra, trigonometry, geometry, and other stuffs that has something to do with Mathematics when simple MDAS — the four basic Math skills — would make you survive life even without those complicated Mathematical skills. Besides, what’s the use of calculators? Lol.
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Chemistry and Zoology are driving me crazy! With tons of jargons to memorize, who would not turn into a lunatic? But hey, I’m not one yet, I’m still in the process of becoming one. Lol.
Yesterday, I was memorizing the frog’s bones (e.g. humerus, occipital condyles, fenestra, mento-meckelian, astragalus1). And this morning, I had a test about them. Boy, it was brain damaging! There were even some bones that I did not recognize because they were cut and chopped into pieces. For instance, the pectoral girdle that has ten (more or less) parts was cut, making it too hard for me to recognize as pectoral girdle that consists of clavicle, fenstra, epicoracoid, coracoid, episternum, and other parts that I’m sure you don’t want to know and don’t care about.
And later, I have to review for Chemistry because I have a test tomorrow about lipids. Yes, about those fats you have in your body.
Until now I still don’t know why do we have to study all of this things. Why do we have to memorize names of chemicals such as “acetic acid” (IUPAC name: ethanoic acid) when you can simply say it as “vinegar.” I’m sure, nobody from you would go to the nearest sari-sari store2 and ask the owner “Do you have acetic acid (or ethanoic acid)?” If you don’t want him to pour vinegar on you! Yuck!
On the lighter side, there are some interesting things that I knew this semester, thanks to my excellent Chemistry instructor3 and Zoology laboratory instructor. My Chemistry professor told us that you can create diamond (synthetic) out of methane gas which consists of one carbon atom and three hydrogen atoms. (Are you already getting bored? Or am I already killing you with all these terms? Haha.) She even also told us that putrescine (IUPAC name: 1,4-butanediamine) and cadaverine (IUPAC name: 1,5-pentanediamine) are reasons why dead animals have unpleasant odors. (So the next time you smelled an unpleasant odor, just simply say “Gorss! It smells purtescine and cadaverine!4) And oh, you could also make vinegar (or any other carboxylic acids) have a pleasant odor just by adding alcohol (this process is termed as esterification).
With all of these, I’m just so glad that I’m doing great with these two subjects… and I’m still alive!
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- Hey, it’s only the word “humerus” and “occipital” that the spell checker of Firefox has recognized as correct. [↩]
- My English instructor last semester said that “sari-sari store” is already included in the English lexicon so I’m not going to italicize it. Lol. But a simple search of it in Dictionary.com would not give me a positive result. [↩]
- Who enters the classroom with only her chalk box. All of the things that she teach are programmed into her brain. Lol. [↩]
- But who would understand you? Lol! [↩]
