So, it has been a crazy transition back to the world of working. As many of you know, I am a professor, and with school starting again, I have been rather busy. On one hand, it is good to be back. On the other hand, it has made it increasingly difficult to keep my blog up to date. The sad part is that I am constantly thinking of new blogs. If I had the time, and the energy, I could probably write 20 blogs tonight, but alas, I am tired, and must go to bed soon.
With the new semester comes new students, and yet the same students. I teach biology for non-majors. What that means is I have about 150 students looking at me wishing they were somewhere else. They do not see the value in biology, and if they could avoid taking my class, most of them would. Our university requires a science lab course, of which my class qualifies. On the first day of class, I often ask the same question: How many of you would not be here if you didn’t have to be here? I would say about 95% of the students raise their hands. I will also ask them; How many of you think biology is NOT relevant to your lives? This response to this question is generally less depressing, but only slightly as approximately 80% of the students respond with biology as irrelevant to their lives.
Biology irrelevant? Seriously? How can this be? Biology is the study of life. How is life irrelevant to your life? This is simply impossible. Granted, I am biased, but I simply do not understand how people don’t appreciate the need for biology in their lives. Now some of this I blame on biology teachers, or science teachers in general. We all have had experiences, including my self, of having science teachers that were boring as hell. Of course, if you take biology from me, you might call me many things, but boring is not one of them.
Quick side note: At what point did hell become boring? How do boring and hell go together? I can think of hell as many things, but I am quite convinced that it won’t be boring. The druggies, alcoholics, and gang bangers alone should make it quite the ‘exciting’ place. I’m just sayin … OK, too early for that. I digress.
My point is: I can’t think of any subject more relevant to a person’s life than biology. Here are a list of subjects that I think are cool, relevant, and 100% biology:
Food – You are what you eat, literally. Everybody eats, and everybody poops (I refuse to say more about poop). Bammm!!! Biology.
Breathing – You can’t live without air. Boo-Ya! Biology.
Dancing – Exercise, grooving to the beat, getting your freak on with the local barfly. BaBam! Biology.
Beer – Yeast, fermentation, Yummy goodness. KaDoosh! Biology.
Sex – Need I say more. Crazy face making, toe curling, heavy breathing, loud screaming (if you roll like that), spasm, then coma inducing freaky sex. And you know this maaaaaaan! Biology.
Appreciate it. Know it. Love it. Can’t live without it.
Biology.
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If someone were to videotape you during sex, would you want to see it? I don’t think I would. It’s not because I am prude or anything, it’s just that I am not convinced that the facial expressions produced during sex would appear natural, especially at the summit of lovemaking. But if I were to walk by a screen showing my big butt bumping and grinding, I would have no choice but to watch. It be like a bad car wreck; I know I shouldn’t watch, but I just have to. For those of you reading this that know me, try getting that image out of your brain. I’m just sayin …
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