This past Tuesday, I checked myself into the infirmary after feeling pretty lousy over the weekend. I slept for 13 hours both Sunday and Monday night, had a very bad cough, sore throat, and major congestion, and knew that something was wrong. After getting some blood work done I found out that I had mononucleosis, or mono for shit, or even “the kissing disease”. I didn’t know much about mono, but knew that it wasn’t very good. So I decided to do a little research on it, and see what I had gotten myself into.

I have felt almost ALL of these symptoms in the past couple of days…

Mononucleosis is caused by a virus that can be transmitted through saliva, which is where the name “kissing disease” comes into play. But it can’t only be caught by kissing, as it can be transmitted through coughing, or sharing food and drink with another person. When you have mono, you might have symptoms such as fatigue, chills, loss of energy, and also loss of appetite, all of which are symptoms noticed early on. Some more intense symptoms include fever, severe soar throat, and also swollen lymph nodes. One of the most dangerous parts of mono is if your spleen becomes enlarged, it can rupture.

As you can tell, mono pretty much sucks. And after doing more research, I found out it could be worse… According to this report, it has been stated that mono can increase your chance for cancer.

The larger cells are from Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

Hodgkin’s disease is a type of lymphoma, which is a cancer of the lymphatic system. This cancer is most commonly found in young adults, just like mononucleosis. Researchers looked at a total of 17,000 people in Denmark with mononucleosis caused by EBV (virus that causes mono) and a total of 24,000 people with mononucleosis with no traces of EBV. The researchers found that the risk of Hodgkin’s was higher in those with mononucleosis caused by EBV than those with mono not caused by EBV. Also, their studies have shown that there is a higher rate of the cancer with people who have had a history with mononucleosis – 50% of these Hodgkin lymphoma tumors show that the virus is present in them. Another thing found in their most recent study on this issue was that mono caused by EBV quadrupled the risk of Hodgkin’s disease and mono like illnesses that weren’t caused by EBV but other viruses had no link or association with Hodgkin’s.

What is important from this is that mononucleosis does not cause cancer. There is no evidence that someone getting mononucleosis has caused them to later on get Hodgkin’s disease. Because both are involved with one’s lymph nodes, mononucleosis weakens them, when they are meant to fight off infection and cancer. Once the lymph nodes are weakened, Hodgkin’s disease (cancer of the lymph nodes) has an easier chance to take over. But, once again, you are not guaranteed to develop Hodgkin’s disease; there is a greater chance that you can get it however.

This topic is something that I found to be very important to myself, and I hope important to all of you reading it. Mononucleosis is very common for our age group, and it is very common right now around the university. When I found out that I had mono, the doctor said I was the tenth person just in the past two weeks to be diagnosed with it. What you should take away from this is that if you are feeling any of the symptoms I currently stated before, go get checked out. You might not have anything wrong with you, but its better to make sure you are okay before you start spreading it to others in our community. So, if you do have mono, stay away from making out with people at parties, don’t share your Starbucks, and eat your own food, for your sake and everyone else’s!

After my last blog post, “The Good in Caffeine”, I got a suggestion from a fellow classmate to discuss “The Bad” in caffeine. And I decided to do just that.

Caffeine Master

In my last blog post on caffeine, I discussed study that was conducted that found that caffeine can improve your memory. Now while this is very interesting and beneficial, there are many other parts to caffeine that are harmful, and almost not worth some of the benefits you get from it.

After finding multiple articles on caffeine being bad for you in terms of blood pressure and things of that nature, there was one study I found striking to me. According to this study, caffeine can increase the risk of breast cancer.

Breast cancer is cancer that forms in the cells of the breast, most commonly found in women. In 2015 alone, it is estimated that over 200,000 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed. There are no known causes for breast cancer, besides just a damage to a cell’s DNA.

Since breast cancer is most commonly found in women, this study followed a total of 38,432 women over a ten year span. All of the women followed were of age 45 or older when the study began and were asked to record how much caffeine they consumed on a regular basis. The results from this study were that over the span of the ten years, about 1,200 women ended up with breast cancer. The study stated that “drinking more than four cups of coffee a day increased the risk of the cancer by 68%”.

Diagram of where one of these tumors could be located

Not only this, but it increased the chance of growing tumors larger than two centimeters by 79%. This piece of information is extremely important in regards to breast cancer because breast cancer is a malignant tumor, and can continue to grow in size to about five centimeters in size. These tumors can grow out of control, very quickly, and spread to other parts of the body, especially those closest to the breast area. Knowing the size of the tumor is very important because it helps determine what stage of the cancer you are in. The higher the stage (the larger the tumor size), the more serious the cancer is.

What I want to make sure that I cover here is that these findings do not say that caffeine causes breast cancer. What these findings simply say is that there is a chance that caffeine consumption may affect the progression of breast cancer. There is however, a correlation between consuming a lot of caffeine and developing breast cancer. Like we always say in class, correlation does not equal causation!

What I would take away from this research and my last research done on caffeine increasing memory is that you can consume, but just be careful how much you do. Obviously, caffeine has its benefits and downfalls, but if you are smart about how much you consume, you should be okay!

these have saved my life since the third grade

Since I was a child, the third grade to be exact, I have had glasses. Every doctor visit, my vision gets worse. I have been wearing contacts since the fifth grade and can honestly say that without them, I would almost be blind (yes I have 50/20 vision which is pretty high up there). From time to time I get asked the question “can you hear well?” because apparently there is the idea that if you have very bad eyesight that you have really good hearing, and vise versa. I’ve always wondered if this was something for all people like me with bad eyesight, so I decided to do some research.

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While there are little to no studies done on this topic, or at least that I could find, I was able to find one study on this issue of hearing and seeing. In this small study, conducted by Franco Lepore and his colleagues, they tested to see if those who were blind were better able to locate sound than those who could see perfectly fine. He used nineteen participants, seven who were able to see normally and twelve who had gone blind at a very early age in their life. During their experiment, all participants were put into an “echo-free chamber” and asked to locate where a sound was coming from. This might remind you of hearing tests that would take place in elementary school, where the nurse would put headphones on you and you would have to state which side the noise was coming from. This test was a little different however, because there were more than just two spots to choose where a sound was coming from. The participants were tested on locating the sounds with just one ear and also both.

After conducting the experiment, the results showed that all participants, both blind and those who could see had no trouble detecting the sounds when both ears were used. However, five of the blind participants (five out of twelve) were able to locate the sounds correctly with one ear. The results also stated that “most” of the normal visioned participants could not spot any of the sounds.

These results are very vague. To begin with, the amount of participants in the study is extremely small. Also, when stating that the normal visioned participants could not spot any of the sounds, they did not state a specific amount, they just said “most”. This is not very reliable data which makes it hard to determine if the conclusions made by the experiment are valid or not.

After looking over this, I still am unsure if better vision comes with worse hearing or vise versa; maybe it does. This experiment gave small insight to it, but there is just not enough data to prove it. For now, I’ll stick with my glasses and contacts and hope that I wont need a hearing aid in the future.

Since I’ve been here at Penn State, I can say that I have consumed more caffeine here than I have in my entire life. I have always drank a cup a tea, almost every day, but it was always decaffeinated – I didn’t need it for the caffeine, I just liked it for the test and warmth. But this is not the same for me anymore. I am constantly drink a mix of caffeinated tea and coffee, up to three to four times a day. I can barely make it through the day when I don’t have my cup of coffee and need that caffeine to keep me going. Since this is new to me, I am wondering if there is anything good coming out of this consumption, or if it is bad.

Where all your memory is stored

While I am sure that we all know that caffeine can give you that burst of energy and alertness you need to study and cram for a quiz or an exam, there is something else that caffeine gives you that you might not have known about. According to this study done by researches from the John Hopkins University, caffeine has been found to enhance your memory. What is interesting about this is that they were the first to ever look at caffeine’s affect on memory since most studies done on caffeine look at cognitive-enhancement and increases in energy.

The part of your brain that involves memory is the hippocampus. The hippocampus is a very important part to this study because the hippocampus plays a large role in declarative memory. This type of memory is the ability to purposely recall things, which is exactly what the researchers in this experiment are testing.

This study was was a double blind placebo trial with 160 participants in the study. An important aspect to this study was that the participants were all people who did not regularly drink or eat caffeinated products. Those who consistently eat and drink caffeinated products will have a higher tolerance to the affects from caffeine, therefore their data would not help the findings of the study. Participants looked at a series of images and then were given either a placebo or a 200-milligram caffeinated tablet after viewing the images.  Each participant’s caffeine levels were tested and then the next day a series of images were shown again, some being the same from the previous day and some being brand new ones.

The researchers found that the group of participants who had taken the caffeine tablet were more likely to answer correctly on recalling images from the previous day. To the right, you can see multiple diagrams showing the results at the bottom and also diagrams at the top outlining their experiment.

I think the study that the reasearchers conducted was well done, except I would have provided/stated numbers when it came to how well participants were to recall the images. It was not very specific but could have been. If this were to be conducted again, I would also recommend using more participants; 160 is not that small of an amount, but the results can definitely be more reliable if there are more participants being looked at. Also, declarative memory is a form of short term memory, so maybe there can be another experiment that tests caffeine’s affect on long term memory. This could possibly be done by look at people who have been consuming caffeine for many years instead of people who do not consume it like in this experiment.

I found this study to be extremely interesting and important because we often look at caffeine with negative effects. So the next time you drink coffee, or tea, or have any caffeinated product, start to study a little, then consume it, study a little more, and you should be good to go for your next exam!

Its obvious that we all use our cell phones in class. With every thing going on in social media, we can’t help but take a glance every once in a while. But this is not the case in some schools. There are now schools that completely ban having cell phones. While cell phones can be used to help with class room discussions, just like our comment wall in class, are they doing more good than bad? These schools that ban cell phones believe that they do more bad than good, and research has found that.

What would our days be like without cell phones in class…

The use of smart phones in the classroom have a negative impact on grades, performance, and test scores. A study was conducted by the London School of Economics that showed that not allowing students to carry their cell phones made an improvement on their test scores. The study “looked at how phone policies at 91 schools in England have changed since 2001, and compared that data with results achieved in national exams taken at the age of 16. The study covered 130,000 students”.

The results found from this study found that a ban on phone use in school increased the school’s average test scores by 6.4%. This difference was just for regular students, and an even more significant increase in test score average was found in underachieving students, at 14%.

This specific study has been talked about in many articles and I have had some trouble finding more studies on the issue. We do get a good understanding however on the negative impacts from the use of cellphones from this study. By not having cell phones in school, students are performing better, they are getting higher test score averages. While I agree with their findings, it is hard to decide whether cell phones should be banned entirely, because they can have benefits…

According to an article from the Boston Globe, “88 percent of American teens ages 13 to 17 have or have access to a mobile phone, and a majority of teens (73 percent) have smartphones” and from this percentage, “ninety-two percent of teens report going online daily, with more than half saying they’re online several times a day. Twenty-four percent say they do so ‘almost constantly.'”

I for one use my cell phone pretty much all day long but not just for social media (shocking right?) but for educational purposes. There are many educational apps that smart phones have where you can do research and complete assignments.

The decision to ban or allow cell phones in school is very controversial and is important to discuss, especially for us because we are students and this is impacting us first hand. My opinion on the issue is that cell phones should not be banned entirely, but shouldn’t be allowed unless the teacher is instructing you to use them. Cell phones can be a HUGE distraction (not going to lie, it is a distraction for me in this class), but they can be a great aspect to our learning.

I’m sure we all have been feeling a little under the weather these past few weeks. Everyone seems to be sick and not feeling well thanks to the “Penn State Plague” going around. I for one never get sick, but this is the first time in a while where I am. The stuffy nose, the loud obnoxious cough, you name it, I have it. One of the most bothersome is the pain in my head. Because I am usually never sick, I had no idea if it was a headache or a migraine; what’s the difference?

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The term headache and migraine are often used interchangeably when they actually shouldn’t be because they are two different things. They are similar, but there are specific distinctions between that two that can help identify what kind of pressure you are feeling in your head. Let’s first take a look at what a headache really is.

The reason why migraines and headache often get mixed up is because headache is a very broad term. Its as simple as it sounds, a pain that occurs in any part of the brain, meaning in the front, the back, the sides, anywhere. To get more specific, there are two types of headaches, primary and secondary. These explain the causes of headaches and how they differ. Primary headaches occur when there are problems with pain sensitive structures in the head, such as blood vessels, muscles, and nerves of the head and even neck, this is the category that migraines fall into. These problems are considered stand alone illnesses, compared to secondary headaches, which are things like brain freeze from eating something cold, or even a concussion. Some might thing that this could be primary, but it is considered secondary because it came from an injury that caused the nerves or muscles or blood vessels to have problems and cause sensitive pain.

The only good thing really that you get out of a headache is the fact that you are only feeling this uneasiness in your head. Even though that this is not that great, migraines can have symptoms not just in the head but in other parts of the body. Some other symptoms that migraines come with besides intense head pain is also nausea, vomiting, seeing spots and flashing lots, and dizziness.

We can pretty much understand what secondary headaches come from, like the cold Berkey Creamery ice cream you had that caused that awful brain freeze. Or that concussion you got from getting hit pretty hard in football. But what about primary headaches? What about migraines?

Its hard to say what exactly is happening that causes it to happen but it has been said that medical researchers believe that migraine headaches are caused by altered blood flow and abnormal levels of naturally produced substances in the brain. This can be treated with medication, but sometimes this does not always work. The Mayo Clinic has conducted research where they have found an alternative to taking medication for migraines if the medication is not working for you. They have found that using occipital nerve stimulation (ONS) can stop or relieve pain. Their study consisted of 16 patients, 13 who were female since the majority of the population who suffer from migraine are female (70% of 32 million to be exact). After stimulation, six of the patients fell little to no relief, eight patients found 50-95% improvement of relief, and two found complete relief.

This experiment does have data, but not enough to make it very reliable. There were only 16 people used in the experiment, which is a very small amount compared to the 32 million Americans who have reported to have migraines. And the success of ONS was very low; only two people felt complete relief. There were eight who did feel improvement, but exact amounts of that improvement were not given; the Mayo Clinic gave the range at which patients ranked their improvement, but for all we know seven of the eight could have said a 50% improvement with only one person that said a high 90%.

So what’s the point? For the most of us that suffer from secondary headaches, stay away from all the ice cream and protect yourself out on the sports field. If you are one of the unfortunate that suffer from migraines, take your medication! And if that does not work for you, then maybe consider ONS. Even though it hasn’t worked for many, it has worked for some. Who knows, maybe if there were more participants in the Mayo Clinic study, there could have been a larger amount of people that said it was successful for them and they saw improvement with the feelings of their migraines.

Looking for that silky smooth hair? Maybe conditioner will help. But how does conditioner actually work? What does it do???

I’ve always understood that shampoo is what washes your hair, but have never really understood the concept of conditioner. Yeah, it makes your hair soft and smooth, but how? One of the ingredients in conditioner called cationic surfactant is what really does the trick. Your hair has dead skin cells that wrap around a cuticle layer. The cationic surfactants is what holds these skin cells and cuticle layer tight together, making your hair smooth. If they weren’t wrapped tightly together, that’s what would cause your hair to be frizzy and rigid.

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Conditioner also has other chemicals and oils (good ones of course) that will make your head and hair have a balanced pH level. The pH level of your hair is what determines how dry your hair will be, or even if your hair looks a little greasy. Too much conditioner will cause this greasy look to it, most likely on the top scalp of your head.

Like I said before, conditioner has oils in it that also help detangle your hair. After shampooing and scrubbing, your hair is clean, but can also become extremely knotted. This is what the oils are for. The oils in conditioner are like a lubricant that smooth out the coated conditioned pieces. But what people don’t realize is that your hair is really just dead skin cells, meaning that its really just dead tissue. So when people are concerned about the health of their hair, they are really worrying about an unreal thing; dead tissue can’t be healthy. So, the point of conditioner isn’t to save your hair or make your hair healthy again. It’s job is to simply make it look “healthy”, and that can be whatever definition of healthy you think it should be. The takeaway from this is that conditioner has a purpose, and there are reasons why it acts the way it does. If you want detangled, silky, smooth and shiny hair, using conditioner is your best bet for  that “healthy” look!

Here is a video that I found that explains what I talked about. Enjoy!

After talking about it in class, I became more interested in the topic of adderall. In high school, this was a common type of stimulant easily found among our peers, especially among mine. Whether it was for the midterm exams, finals, or the SAT, students were buying adderall left and right. I for one have never taken it, nor do I feel the need to. However, I always wondered what the big hype was, and if this hype would die down when I got to college…

What the drug does is increase attention spans , meaning it keeps you focused and controls your activity. Adderall is a stimulant that is prescribed to people with ADHD and also to treat narcolepsy. If you don’t have either of these, you shouldn’t be taking Adderall, unless you are prescribed for other medical reasons. However, so many people do anyways. How are all of these people getting access to this drug? Well, people who have it sell it.

In high school, kids were selling these pills everywhere, and if I really wanted to have it, I easily could. Now that I am in college, I’ve wondered if it’s the same. Is it still just as popular? According to this article , Adderall is the second most common form of drug use on college campuses. According to CNN Its been found that full-time college students are two times more likely to use Adderall when they aren’t prescribed it to people who are not full time students. This same research found that almost 30% of students at universities use stimulants, such as Adderall, non-medically. This is considered to be abuse especially since it is not being taken to treat something. 90% of these users are doing it for concentrating while studying, and similar purposes to this.

Need to focus on studying for that chemistry exam…?

The one scary thing about this abuse is that taking Adderall affects your frontal cortex . This part of your brain is responsible for things like focusing, problem solving, planning, etc. For those who abuse this drug, it can damage this part of your brain and the amount of dopamine that is produced.

What I have taken away from this is that the use of Adderall is still evident in colleges. The amount of Adderall being abused in the nation is rising. What you should take away from this is that if you aren’t prescribed Adderall, don’t take it. In the long run, you are just going to be harming yourself. Turn off your phone and close Facebook while studying. It’s not as hard as it may seem!

Bad break up? Death in the family? Broke your ankle? Long line at Starbucks?

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Yes. These are all reasons why one might cry. But the question is, why? Maybe it’s the fact that you’re trying to get to your 8 AM and grab a cup of coffee on the way but the line is so long you won’t get to the front of the line until the end of the day, but what I really want to know is why?

Whether it is for any of the reasons stated, crying occurs for “a biochemical purpose. It’s believed to release stress hormones or toxins from the body.” So when you are stuck in any kind of stressful situation, your body may feel the need to cry. The break up, death, broken bone, and even Starbucks create stress, which is why you are more likely to cry than in any kind of regular, day to day situation.

Let’s say that something has gone terribly wrong, and you begin to sob. There is a reason why you can’t hold back the tears. When tears start to pile up in your eyes, your lacrimal punctum becomes full, and cannot take in any more tears, hence the downpour of tears down your cheeks. The tears that do however make it in the lacrimal punctum is the reason why you get a runny nose when you cry. Everything up there is all connected, so those tears that made it in the lacrimal punctum have to come out somewhere, even if they aren’t tears anymore…

You cry for a reason, and it’s not to ruin your makeup or make you look like a baby. Their purpose is to smooth out the surface of the eye, which maintains a healthy eye. Tears keep the eye moist, hence, not allowing them to dry out. Not only this, but tears contain lysozyme which fights against infections from forming in the eye.  They also clear out toxins from within your body, especially tears from stress. This isn’t the case for all tears, however. Not all  tears are the same. A great example of this is the fact that “several studies have shown that tears brought about by stress are different biologically from tears brought about by working with onions”. Cutting onions is not a very stressful or emotional action, which is why it is odd that they make you cry. Onions actually make you cry because they produce a chemical called syn-propanethial-S-oxide, a chemical that irritates the eye and starts it to water. Obviously, this is not the case in other tearful situations; there is not always a chemical that will cause your eye to tear up, but that doesn’t mean you will never cry.

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Crying is a natural process, and sometimes needed. The next time you begin to cry and ask yourself, “Why am I crying?” remember that there is a reason, and it’s not just because you’re a baby or insane (only if you’re crying about the Starbucks line…)

“Can I have diet please?”

Which would you choose?

The typical phrase you here by most people when ordering a drink at any type of restaurant. In reality, soda isn’t that great for you, but when we choose to drink it, most will ask for diet in hopes that they are doing something a little better for their bodies. About “20 percent of the U.S. population” drinks diet beverages and it is certain that these drinks are not helping people lose weight or diet. It’s doing the opposite…

Without even realizing it, if you drink a diet soda, you are more likely to consume more calories from eating something to replace the calories that you’re missing from that soda. Not all might believe that this is true and think that “they are making a healthy choice, but then they end up consuming more calories later“. Whether it is junk food or snacking, those calories are being consumed in some way.

This compensation for soda has been tested before, and it has been found that people “eat an 69 calories, on average, of sugary, fatty, salty or cholesterol-raising foods” when they have a diet soda. And this extra calorie intake doesn’t just come from soda, other drinks will do the same amount of damage…

The same study found different averages for different beverages. These beverages included alcohol, regular soda (which had a higher average extra calorie intake than diet soda), coffee, and even tea. This information made me nervous. I have never been a big soda drinker which has made me believe to be a healthier person. But, I am an avid tea and coffee drinker, and neither of these drinks are helping my calorie intake. The study showed that tea had an extra 64 calorie intake and coffee at an extra 108 calorie intake, which is worse than diet soda. So if you’re like me and don’t even drink soda, you might want to watch what else you’re drinking. Looks like water might be your best bet!

What’s important from this is that no matter what you drink, you have to watch and record your calorie intake. Diet soda is not going to help you lose weight. It is all about the quantity and quality of your intake. Moral of the story is to drink and eat healthy, and hit the gym every now and then if you want to lose weight… and not gain it!

If you got the chance to read my introductory blog, you’d know I’m into sports, especially when it comes to softball. My nationally ranked high school softball team (seventh in the country on Maxpreps if you want to check it out) had always been in the battle with the baseball team as to whether or not softball or baseball was a harder sport. You could guess that all the girls would say softball is harder and all the guys would say that baseball is harder, but girls aren’t the only ones to say that softball is harder, now guys stay with me on this but there is actually science behind it. Watch ESPN’s Sports Science video with all the details.

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The video does a great job explaining the difference of hitting between softballs and baseballs. While some argue that hitting a baseball is harder than hitting a softball because baseball pitchers are throwing at speeds 30 to 40 mph faster than a softball pitcher, they are wrong. Hitting a ball depends on the reaction time given to hit that ball. And this reaction time depends on the distance the ball initially starts at from home plate. A MLB pitching mound is distanced at 60 and a half feet away from home plate while a softball mound is distanced at 42 feet. When comparing the speed of the pitches to the distance the mound is from home plate, you get your reaction time. To give an example of this, a 60mph fastball from a softball pitcher requires a reaction time of .42 seconds. This equivocates to an 87mph fastball from a baseball pitcher, which to me is pretty fast. If  you were to look at it this way, a lot of college softball players pitch way over 60mph fastballs regularly, so they really are pitching at speeds the same as MLB baseball players. Take a look at Jennie Finch for example, an Olympic player who pitches at speeds of 70mph, she is one to believe that softball is harder than baseball.

Lets look at some of the comparisons between the two sports that aren’t mentioned in the video above; first being the size of the ball. A baseball has a circumference of nine inches while a softball has a circumference of 11 to 12 inches. At first glance, baseball players will argue that it is harder to hit a ball that is smaller. However, with a smaller circumference, a baseball has a greater chance to be hit farther and harder, increasing the likelihood of the batter to get a hit. While a softball is bigger, meaning that it will not have the capability to travel the same distance as a baseball would because of the surface area and also surface friction, making the chances of getting a hit less likely.

Everyone will probably always have their set opinions on which of the two sports is the harder one to play. Until the answer is completely certain, I won’t take “You play like a girl,” as harsh as I once did before, and actually take it as a compliment

Hey guys, my name is Emily Lippincott. I’m a freshman, currently undecided, and hoping to either major in Marketing or Advertising/Public Relations. I love to play sports and go out with friends when ever I get the chance. I’m from Southington, Connecticut, and really excited to be at Penn State!

I decided to take this class for two reasons. The first reason is that I initially enrolled in the Meteorology course which I had NO interest in and my adviser at NSO suggested I take. As you can tell I dropped that class pretty quickly because I don’t see myself becoming a weather woman any  time in the future. My second reason is that I hated science classes in high school. I was actually good at science, but it was just too boring for me. After my poor science experiences in high school, I realized I would never want to major in science or have a career in it.

Like I said before I love sports, so here is a picture of me and my teammates after we won our third straight state championship title in softball. (I’m the one jumping all the way on the right!)

and for my link that we need to add, here is a video of the end of the game!

3-Peat State Champs !