I just got another wrong number caller again. This Jamaican-accent middle aged lady keeps calling at around 9:30am for three days, I keep telling her she has the wrong number. When I pick up I would say hi and she’ll say hi so then I say hi again since the caller didn’t present an objective. So she says hi again. Finally, perhaps after a two minute exchange of hello’s, I go, you called yesterday too. Doof.
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An incident today faced during rush hour of returning home involving discrimination, and retaliation.
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Today is the first Monday of the new year. What will you do with it?
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The Similes of Finals is what you would like to call finals as it feels and pertains to you. What are finals? They’re not just exams. They are more than that. They are pretty much what your life is, and in fact, they’re this month.
10. Finals are like burnt toast, you were looking forward to it in the morning but it just have to be ruined.
9. Finals are like your mother telling you to clean your room, and you decided to do so but only superficially so everything looks nice but you stuffed most of your belongings under your bed. Your mother eventually decides to vacuum and upon seeing your junk all over the place, you get in trouble. In other words, please study so you won’t have this problem.
8. Finals are like the smelly guy who decided not to shower or brush their teeth this morning to make it to the 9am exam because they decided to cram all night. Please, take care of your hygiene.
7. Finals are like ordering coffee from the new hip and chic cafe down the corner. There are so many options you go with your intuition. Yes, I bubble in my scantron – with intuition.
6. Finals sure are exams, but what are they exams of? They are exams of how well you read and how you interpret things. Thus, finals are like reading the opposite sex, you read or interpret them wrong and you get on their bad side (especially females). Finals are sure moody.
5. Finals are like rainbows (at least in my school). There are at least 8 different versions in 4 different paper colors.
4. Finals are like marathons. It’s the end of the semester, the final stretch. You run and run and… oh crap there’s next semester. Make this a decathalon until graduation.
3. Finals are the holidays. No, it’s not because this occurs in December and we have X’mas around the corner, nor is it because it occurs in May/June and you have summer vacation (yes it’s a holiday!). Finals are like holidays because they are special, they only occur once throughout a year. Just like the holidays, there is not enough time for them.
2. Finals are like playing football. You got a question right? SCORE! What? You’re stuck at a question? Yea the question pwned you back a few yards. Well, this technically applies to any other sport too, but football is rather painful and I for one is a tiny gal so finals are like huge guys to me.
1. Finals are like fancy guys (or pretty women for you males). They present themselves in an eloquent, formal way with verbal elusiveness. They entertain you, capture your focus, and when you think you finally got them, they turn you down. Finals are like that, they play hard to get with your grade.
In the spirit of finals, here’s a site Kura linked me on good eats for your brain during finals week: http://startcooking.com/blog/303/10-Tips-for-Healthy-Eating-During-Exams.
Two little cutaru waru pups are irresistibly kawaii! The creative minds behind webcomic Nemu-Nemu are Audra Furuichi and Scott Yoshinaga, who have recently reached their 200th comic! They created the funny and lovable webcomics about two little pups Anpan and Nemu in their journey of understanding the human world. Popularity is sure rising with their loyal fans displaying the pups on their facebook and myspace pages.
Each comic strip consist of a 3-4 panel scene. The two pups fall into the hands of tween girls Anise and Kana, who each takes one pup as their own pet and pretty much treat them between a friend and their little sibling. The naive little pups do everything from making pancakes from magic, directing traffic toys and taking cocoa and donut breaks, to arguing with the sky and it’s thunderstorms. Every comic comes with a dose of silliness and adorable factor that I have come to appreciate! The comics at times seem to move quite slow because it doesn’t really stimulate your brain to think much, but I think it’s a nice and relaxing comic to ease your mind.. it’s like yoga, for the brain! There’s even a production of stuffed pups (which cost a bit steep at $50 a piece) and products to go with your addiction to the pups. Follow the journey of Anpan and Nemu with Anise and Kana at nemu-nemu.com! Enjoy this sampling! 
Priorities are going to be a series of posts where I point out flaws that I see, and things that need to change. Please freely express your ideas and comments.
Since I attend school away from home, I rarely get a chance to know what goes on in the outside world. College dorm life is pretty much living in a bubble of campus atmosphere. Occassionally, I like to burst this bubble (and procrastinate from studying) when I decide to go to the world wide web and read some news. You might ask, well you have a tv don’t you? Sure I do, but when you’re a science student you’re pretty much reading your book most of the time than watching tv. In any case, I went to www.ny1.com for my hometown news. The top story: Yankees And A-Rod Reportedly Close To Deal. Please imagine me doing this: …-_-?? Great, that’s the top story that everyone is very concerned about? Don’t get me wrong, if you love sports good for you. But sports is not something that is do or die, unless you’re a sports gambler and please stop gambling. I read on for further stories: Fire Rips Through Lower Manhattan Skyscraper. Now why is this story not the top story? Why is the preference of sports over a skyscraper? In fact, why isn’t there a top story of a missing child that needs to be found, or an emphasis of a robbery or murder happening in your next zip code? I mean, are you going to worry about sports when you should have paid more attention to the picture of a robber who is standing behind you on line for a morning coffee?
Immunologists attempt to achieve an understanding of how our body responds when under attack by antigens. The following is an explanation of the importance of T-cells in the immune response system. T-cells are part of our adaptive immunity to foreign pathogens. Two children of the Islayev family were found to have a flaw in their MHC. Tatiana and Alexander often suffered from chronic respiratory infections despite immunizations as infants. Analysis of their blood found low levels of CD8 T-cells, but normal levels of IgG, B-cells, and other lymphocytes which showed normal humoral immunity. Their parents and siblings were found to have normal levels of CD8 T-cells and immunity. The difference in CD8 T-cells expressed in Tatiana and Alexander from the rest of their family was directly related to their inability to respond to respiratory infections. CD8 T-cells recognize MHC class I molecules which present endogenous antigen. The antigen is cut into peptides by proteosome and transported into the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) by TAP where it binds to the peptide binding groove. The MHC molecule is assembled in the ER by chaperone proteins and leaves in a vesicle to present itself on the cell membrane. When a CD8 T-cell binds to it, an immune response is made. The cytotoxic T-cell recognizes the viral antigen presented and kills the infected cell. A second class of MHC molecules is MHC class II, which present exogenous antigen. MHC class II molecule is synthesized in the ER with an invariant chain on binding groove and travels by vesicle into the cytoplasm. The invariant chain cleaves and leaves a CLIP fragment on the groove. Antigen enters the cell and antigenic peptides bind to the groove displacing CLIP fragment. MHC molecule expresses the peptide at cell surface to CD4 T-cells. CD4 TH1 cells activate macrophages. CD4 TH2 cells activate B-cells to become plasma cells and release antibodies. In Tatiana’s and Alexander’s immune system, their MHC class II molecules were functioning properly but their MHC class I molecules weren’t. A mutation in TAP would prevent MHC class I molecules from fully maturing, therefore unable to present endogenous antigen to CD8 T-cells. Because Tatiana and Alexander inherited homozygous haplotypes from their parents, they have mutated TAP. The homozygous genes lower the number and type of peptide antigens presented because of the absence of MHC class I molecules on cell surface. With minimal MHC class I activity, they’re still able to have normal humoral immunity because their bodies produced normal levels of B-cells, T-cells and lymphocytes which recognize MHC class II molecules.
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