Happy New Year?!

Internet, 2010 has arrived and once again I am somewhere disgustedly astonished by how fast time flies.
Yes this is the obligatory self-reflection blog that arrives maybe once in a blue moon with an unusually high truth ratio.YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

It seems only like last year when I was a young and optimistic freshman at NYU and now here I am an aged amorphous hag lady graduating from college this May. Where has all this time gone? Now, I would like to say that it went towards building up knowledge...but let's be realistic. Information flies out of your head faster than Sonic the Hedgehog on drugs. Fast drugs. So what little information has Saiyan L retained this year?

Well... first, lets start with archaic information that I don't know if I will ever forget even if I wanted to. You know, the sort of information you retain because the professor made you feel like an idiot for not knowing. Let's see theres the fact that cells operate in steady state and not equilibrium. That little gem of knowledge, Internet, has been stuck in my brain for about 3 years now, proving once and for all that I have a memory superior to a goldfish's. Great Success!

But as for information that I've learned in 2009...hmm... I'm actually not sure where to begin. This semester, I took some frivolous classes that made me realize how lame attending school at NYU, aka Not YHogwarts University is. The Y is silent. But anyway, I honestly don't think I can say I've learned anything from 75% of my classes in the academic sense. I have, however learned that Logic is quite possibly the most frivolous class of all. Do NOT be fooled by how practical that class sounds. What I learned from Logic was not how to become a more logical human being. It was how to pretend that upside down A's and backwards E's were signs of genius and not signs of dyslexia.

I think I've also learned enough about Microbiology to make up a convincing novel bacteria. Introducing, Ferasivae Cantaparasiteinthefaceibus! An gram positive rod shaped alphaproteobacterium with high GC content that is able to use quorum sensing to infest your eye sockets! When many of these bacteria are present, they produce an autoinducer that induces the transcription of the gene saiyanl which encodes the protein SaiyanL. This protein is part of a dimer for a flagellin-like protein which allows the bacteria to crawl into your eye socket causing the host's eyes to twitch unstoppably. Other symptoms include local edema and when left untreated, the host will spontaneously combust. The mechanism for this remains one of modern medicines most intriguing mysteries. Moral of this story? Wash your face kids!

Ah..so much for that high truth content I said this blogpost would contain. I am having fun. But anyway, I just wanted to wish all of you a happy new year and I hope all of you succeed in keeping your new years resolutions~! What are my new years resolutions? Not to make any.