Reflection over semester

 I always thought that natural selection was the strongest, most prominent and popular factor. I have learned how influential and powerful genetic drift is, especially quickly fixing traits/genes in a population. I also learned a lot more details about sexual selection that I have never considered before. It didn’t necessarily surprise me, it made sense, but I just have not thought about it before. Also, I want to say that for my response to the very first prompt, “Is evolution a fact or theory?”, I said a theory because that is what a biology professor at K-State had taught us in one or our classes — no joke. I have never considered it to be both before. I have learned that there is something other than dominant-recessive. I can’t think of what it’s called off the top of my head (also its 11pm at night as I write this), but that is very important to consider: not all allelic relationships are dominant-recessive. I learned that I am still pretty great at interpreting graphs. I got a perfect score on the Science portion of the ACT because of this strength. I also learned that I need someone to hold me accountable, because it is very hard for me to hold myself accountable. I need restrictive, hard deadlines, and I need stress. I’m going to die at 50 years old from stress, but I will have gotten all my work done. I learned that you can write a blog post, spend a bunch of time on it, be super proud of it, and no one will read it (If you are reading this, stop and go read my “Wild-cats” post. Do it). And the posts that you don’t put as much effort into nor particularly like will have 15 views. C’est la vie.