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*Sad girl coffee photo*

My AP Government field trip to The Capitol was actually a lot more fun than I thought it’d be. Field Trip to The Capitol We got to be part of the gallery in the senate today. Senator Grassley was talking about many homeland security issues and touched on things like missing FBI texts, and release the memo. Also, nothing boosted my self esteem more than when my friend told me (while we were in the room where McCulloch v Maryland, and Dred Scott v Sanford) that one day that’s going to be you (in reference to me becoming a lawyer)

Some more super low quality photos of E.Coli colonies (especially visible in the first photo even though those were conditions it was not supposed to grow under) Basically, my class genetically engineered E.Coli with Pglo, so that, in essence, the E.Coli would uptake the naked DNA and thus glow.... (it was more complicated than that but tbh I didn't understand half of it, and was preoccupied with trying ti not get E.Coli)but I'm pretty sure the people running the lab totally botched it and mislabeled something because the wrong ones grew, and the wrong ones fluoresced but oh well, it was still fun. 1-19-18/1-22-18

That old vintage smell :)

Here’s some super low quality photos of onion root tip. Root tips are what allow a plant to grow throughout the entire lifespan, both up (branches, leaves, limbs etc.) and down (roots). The reason it is able to do so is because this portion of the plant is abundant in a group of stem cells called meristematic cells. In the above photos, you can differentiate between the cells in interphase, and the mitotic cells by looking for chromosomes. The cells in interphase look like regular cells, only enlarged, with two nuclei instead of one, and possibly even a cleavage furrow. The ‘mitotic’ cells look like they have stripes all over them, those are the enlarged chromosomes lining up at the metaphase plate preparing for division.

Current obsession. Tbh is never heard of her until Spotify’s “I’m with the banned” This movement spotify sponsored honestly touched my heart so much… just really shows how impossible it is to create true and infinite borders. People will always find a way to be somewhere even if they are unwanted. In this case, that was accomplished by music… they may have been banned physically but pieces of them will still be able to cross over into America. The will of a person filled with good intention is so much stronger than any border designed to inhibit the flow of ideas.