It Will Never End

I forgot to correct my spelling in the title for last time I wrote. "Foramena" is supposed to be spelled "Foramina." A foramen is basically some kind of hole that goes through a bone. Not to be confused with a canal, a fissure, or a fossa.

I have been really busy this past week, but I decided that I might as well take some time to send an update to all of my fans. :P When I say it like that, it makes me sound like a celebrity. Bwahaha.

All of my classes seem to be going rather well. I love them all, even though some of them are extremely demanding on my sanity. For example, I still have yet to completely understand how to solve problems that involve electric fields, mass, electric potential, and/or kinetic energy of particles in my Physics 106 class. If any of you would be so kind as to enlighten me, I would be quite grateful. (However, I think the biggest thing I need to do is study more.)

My Family History class is amazing. I feel the Spirit more in that class than in any of my religion classes before. Including Institute. My teacher says that it is because the Spirit of Elijah is also there. I totally believe it. Something interesting he said yesterday that inspired me not to give up (since it seems as though all of the temple work for all of my great-great-great-something grandparents has been done on all sides.) He said that just 500 years back, we each have something around 1,000,000 "grandparents." AND all of their siblings. Which makes something around 10,000,000 ancestors (give or take) 500 years back. It's just incredible to me that so many people can have existed before and still somehow be connected to me.

The Marriage Prep class that Emma and I are taking together is turning out to seem more worth the credits than it seemed closer to the beginning of the semester. Our teacher is very intelligent and spiritually aware. He has great ideas and is able to connect things that the apostles and prophets have said that make perfect sense when he ties them into "Ideal Marriage." I look forward to finding out what he has to say about the Dating Scene. Bahaha.

As for my Chemistry class, (which Emma happens to be TAing--but for a different professor), so far everything is really basic.. and if I have a pressing question I can always just lower my book, look across the room at Emma and ask her my pressing question. Usually she'll know the answer. Most of the time, though, I can figure it out on my own using the book and my notes and whatnot. Which is good. (I should hope I can seeing as I've already taken two college-level chemistry courses...)

Introduction to Clinical Laboratory Techniques is an incredibly fun class for me. I've already been able to test my own blood for hematocrit and hemoglobin levels. (Mine are average-ish.) I have also been able to actually use a microscope and look at the teeny tiny eensy weensy white blood cells and red blood cells and platelets and differentiate between them all. It took me at least twenty tries to actually make the slide, though. It's really hard to get blood to go down to only one-cell-thick layers. I finally got it and I was so happy with myself that in my celebration I forgot which side had the actual blood on it. And I wiped it all off. So twenty more tries later and I had another one. Needless to say, I am now very careful to remember which side of the slide actually has the blood on it before I go to wipe off the precipitate.

Unfortunately, I have been spending too much time explaining my classes this morning. I need to go make another attempt at figuring out how exactly to approach my Physics homework. Thanks for listening!