Genetics update = BORING!!!

Last Friday I attended a genetics update conference with my fellow IB biology students. The conference was from was from 9-1. Everyone was really excited to go on the field trip because we were going to get to miss a day of school. However the excitement immediately died down as soon as the conference started. As a first year IB biology student we were forewarned that we may not know some of the content that was going to be discussed. However I don't think that anyone realized that we would only understand two words, phagosytosis and fortuitous. The first hour crept by except the person who was giving the lecture who was talking 90 mph. I am not exaggerating either I could barely keep up with him and I was typing notes on my computer. I am sure that the information was very interesting to most people but I am just not that interested in biology. By 10:30 I was ready for my ten minute break. The break went by really fast and before I knew it it was time to go back to the freezing auditorium. At one point I was trying to conserve my laptop battery so I put my laptop on sleep and I acted like I was taking notes. I did this so that I looked like I was paying attention so he wouldn't call on me to answer a question. Even though my biology class had come up with a plan before the conference and if Mr. Rhine called on any of us and we didn't know the answer we would say that we were from Daviess County. Luckily, no one had to use that excuse. When Mr. Rhine used the word fortuitous you would think that I had won the lottery because I was so excited because I knew what that word meant. Everyone in the row started laughing and smiling because we knew one word that Mr. Rhine had used. (By the way, thanks Mrs. Matthews!) By 12:00 I was ready for the other break and then Mr. Rhine announced that it was 90 seconds so I didn't even bother getting up. As soon as 1:00 came around everyone was so excited because we were going to lunch and that is what we had all been waiting for. Lunch at Buffalo Wild Wings was worth the four hour conference. I even got a coffee drink at Books-A-Million even though I was a little late to the bus. The conference taught me one thing and that is that I don't want to go into anything in the biology field, it is just not for me. I love Starbucks :)