whee *half-hearted floppy cheer*

just finished bio S paper prelims and i am now officially screwed beyond belief. what i don't get is why we have to have the S paper prelim before everybody else even sits for their main papers. it's ridiculous! it's like filling your brain with all permutations of knowledge which you really don't need to know- for eg, i'm sure it's really critical to learn about how 5 types of californian salamander have evolved through allopatric speciation- and all for nothing! because ultimately nothing you study ever comes out since we all know that rule no.1 of taking exams is that All Teachers Are Out To Fuck You Over, and so, you should expect nothing less.

read Campbell if you want to do well for bio S, they say. well guess what! after reading almost HALF of the bloody 1200 page affair, i have concluded that campbell indeed makes no fucking difference, especially since what actually comes out for the exam are questions like 'are wetlands major concerns?' or 'describe inter-specific relationships'; in which case all you need to do is really bullshit till your brains fall out or your hands cramp up (whichever comes first) and pray that you'll get the faggotty teacher to mark your script because he doesn't look much brighter than you are.

anyway, seeing as to how fish are one of the fugliest creatures alive and so naturally i know shit about wetlands, and seeing as to how inter-specific relationships would possibly only fill up 2 paragraphs and not 5 pages, i decided to write about how the behaviour of chromosomes during meiosis contributes to observable patterns of inheritance and food biotechnology. for the first essay, i am most positively screwed left right centre because i couldn't remember any of mendel's shitty pea plant experiments, and also couldn't remember if it was a CGG trinucleotide repeat or a CAG repeat which causes Fragile X or whether that even constitutes a chromosomal duplication in the first place. and for the second essay, i ended up spending half the essay talking about how poor eritrean kids were starving because Bt-corn was never distributed to them, and the other half of the essay talking about how the bacillus acidophilus in yakult and saccharomyces cerevisae in lactose-free milk are good for us- which would actually be pretty accurate if not for the fact that it's LACTObacillus acidophilus and KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS. saccharomyces cerevisae is a yeast culture. hooray.

and also, i said that maltate is this revolutionary artificial sweetener which is 1000 times more concentrated than sugar so it helps create low-calorie foods. except that it's MALTITOL and maltate doesn't even exist.

teehee can you say screwed!