End of the year whining and other forms of intensive bitchery.

So, it's the end of the year, I'm a senior, and I have one more exam. Here's a list of the high-quality crap I've had to do.

1) 2 Review of Literature articles. Each ~12-15 pages (1.5 spacing). Each containing bibliographies citing ~16-22 sources (yes, I've read each of those citations, the professors check those sorts of things here).
• "An examination of recent advances in phytoremediation, with speculation on future directions of research and implementation."
• "Untangling the causes of PCD in the interdigital zone of higher vertebrates: Protein hierarchy and interactions."

2) 3 Presentations. 2 Scientific, one for a philosophy & technology course (so more like 2.5 presentations).
• The Blue Revolution: Global GM Aquaculture and its Potential Ecological Impact.
• The Effect of BMP2 and FGF4 on Apoptosis and Chondrogenesis in the Chick Autopod
• The phil & tech was actually pretty cool. Two others and I started a pseudo-blog where we disguised our research as a secret government project that was meant to carry out genetic testing of the entire population, and then use this to promote security and help control the citizenry's environment for their own good. Standard dystopian stuff, but our ideas were much better thought out then your usual, "Shadowy government organizations/ziabatzus are taking over with evil voodoo science!!111" you can check it out here: http://signalcascade.blogspot.com/

3) A 12 page follow up paper to the Phli&Tech presentation titled, "Intrinsic Characteristics in an Age of Fluid Identity: The Genomic Revolution and its Impact on Society and Security". It was actually a lot of fun, and while I got a lot of help finishing it up, I really view the core of the paper as mostly novel ideas.

4) And finally, a 5-pager for a GenEd course I had to take called "Wellness". The assignment was to just let your fingers run free over the keyboard and type up whatever you felt like. Being the east-coaster cityboy I so proudly am, I talked about how mass-transit and mixing of social classes was absolutely necessary to democracy.

In terms of exams, I got off lucky, I've already taken my Developmental Bio final (Dev Bio is what Hell wants to be when it gets older and grows a pair), so now all I've got to do is finish up getting ready for my Plant Physiology final (non-cumulative! Fucking SWEET!!)

So yay, that's my whining quota for the week, back to work.