This girl is back in school! Today was the last day of my first week of classes and man am I beat! I still had to go home at least once every day this week to take a nap and rest up between classes which is something I was hoping to avoid this semester but that's ok! My NP who has become so dear to my heart keeps reminding me that I'm headed towards my "new" normal. I might have to make extra efforts here and there to beat any oncoming fatigue. Even though is a "new" normal I still like the idea of normal!
I'm so pumped about the classes I'm taking and the excitement continues to intensify as God reveals to me the things I have to potentially gain from each course.
I have already been down the beaten path of anatomy and physiology classes and somehow managed to come out unscathed. Those classes did wonders for my understanding of other everyday things. My amazement by our almighty God grew tremendously as I learned about each complex organ system. The events that have to take place in order for us to maintain homeostasis are so complex, it's a wonder our body gets it right every time. Which enforces God's Word when He mentions that Jesus holds all things together. Someone has to be holding it together because there's just no way that! Its a wonder we don't get a "system error" every time our body goes through the complicated process of secreting a couple of digestive enzymes so we can pass our lunch without getting a blockage. and if we do happen to get a blockage, the muscles in our intestines are designed in such a way that they can squeeze any undigested pieces to break them up. This is the 27 foot long tube by the way that is constantly contacting it's muscles to get our food from one end to the other that amazingly never gets tangled or knotted up. This is just one example of the millions of processes our body goes through. I don't know how that makes you feel, but I get chills down my spine because God is declared and glorified in his intricate creation.
You can tell I loved my biology classes. Not only did they aid my faith in our almighty creator, but they helped me understand other things as well. In high school, chemistry was a subject that I never understood. I just memorized equations and by some great miracle, passed the class. I never understood the subject, because I was never given the big picture. Where in the world are all of these chemical reactions taking place, and why? My biology class made me totally conquer this subject as we learned the levels of organization. These things called atoms make up molecules, the molecules make up cells which make up tissues. When you put tissues together, they make up organs. When organs are put together, they create organ systems. Finally, when organ systems are put together, they make up an organism (human). So when you break us down into our smallest component, you will find that we are totally made up of chemicals. OKAY! There's my big picture, now I can make sense of this!
This semester I'm taking a totally different biology: Bio 101. which is a life science. After our first day of class learning about what this course is all about, my big picture got a little bit bigger. There are two other subjects that I don't understand at all: history and politics. I'm embarrassed to say that I don't know anything about the civil war and I'm super embarrassed to say that I can't even grasp why we're fighting in war right now! Don't worry, I've tried really hard in doing research but I just don't get it. Then I had a major breakthrough as I learned the objective of this course I'm taking. Those organisms that I just talked about? We took it a step further: when you put them together, they make up a population. Populations put together make up a community. And you work your way all the way up to a biosphere. I don't know about you, but thats my big picture right there. Learning about people together coming together as a population, creating a community and then the whole world and everything in it that makes up a biosphere. What a perfect foundation for understanding politics! Going all the way back, breaking it up into it's smallest component.
As for history? Guess where we're starting in Bio 101? Breaking up history into it's smallest component, going all the way back to evolution. No, I don't believe in evolution as some of you know from my previous post, "doubting? " but it makes sense to go back to the very beginning of time to get a solid foundation for history.
I hope this post hasn't scared anyone away from continuing to read my blog! For those of you who struggle understanding anything: your job, finances, school, maybe even politics like me... Have you found your big picture? Do you have a solid foundation? Sometimes we have to pause and rewind to grasp understanding and knowledge with more things in life other than biology ;)
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