Week 7 Journal

 This week was calm other than a midterm that I had to study a lot for. I have really enjoyed my immunology lab as we look at case studies related to what we have talked about in lecture. It was especially apparent this week the specific pathways that were affected in different conditions. Additionally, the groups that were presenting were engaging, so I was locked into what they were saying. The test in that class was hard because, even though I knew all the concepts, I mixed a few similar terms together in my brain. Now, I know I need to focus more on that for the next two exams. In my other honors class, we learned how the settling of artists into an area can be indicative of future gentrification. We also learned how media often portrays the artists rather than the previous residents as the victims when gentrification does occur. Virology was fun, because it reviewed and connected what I was studying for the immunology exam with specific anti-viral pathways. Finally, our class and the movie this week made me reflect on how much of my personal life is out on social media. As a result, I spent time going through my followers list and unadding people who I had not talked with in years. There were a lot of people that I had befriended in the first semester of college and not talked with since. Several of them had even graduated and moved across the country. While I enjoyed seeing their lives progress, we were never really that close, and I prefer to keep my posts limited to people I actually know and still interact with.

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