Hi, my name is Wes Alexander and I’m a freshman from Wayne, PA about 20 minutes outside of Philadelphia. I am taking this course because when I was scheduling classes I was told to pick a science course, any science course, in order to fulfill my science general education requirement. After looking over a list of hundreds of science courses I came across this class at just about the bottom of the list. My advisor told me it is an interesting class, that the professor has a cool New Zealand accent, and that its geared for students who aren’t necessarily ecstatic about science. Sign me up. Majoring in some field of science just wasn’t something that ever crossed my mind. I have never hated or necessarily done poorly in my science classes, it just wasn’t something that came easily to me or I enjoyed. I then made the mistake of taking AP Physics my senior year of High School and as i sat bored out of my mind through a year of vector addition and force diagrams I had pretty much made up my mind, there was no way I was going to be a science major.

In other news, if anyone is looking for a good show to binge watch on Netflix, I would highly recommend “Stranger Things”. It just came out in July and has already received record breaking ratings. It also has a sic-fi kind of theme so it is partially relevant to science. Here’s the trailer if anyone is interested.