Kitty

Why is writing so hard? 

WAIT. 
          
          HOW IS THIS ACCOUNT ALMOST 10 YEARS OLD???????????? 
          
          bruh I know I'm graduating from college in a couple months but ????? how???? Is anyone still around???????

Hey all - I wanted to say thank you to everyone who has read ACOGL. <3 It's kinda crazy that something I wrote when I was a kid has over 300K reads.

BOOP

I come on here, for the first time in a hot minute, and somehow ACOGL is #8 in the hoo tag??? How???? What happened? I took a 6 hour practice exam today, so maybe I'm dreaming or something? 
          
          Also, the only thing I've written recently is stuff for Crippled Kingdoms for a class. My professor liked it. She's awesome. She had to deal with me submitting a 60 page final project for my assignment instead of the original 15 pages she requested, rip. 
          
          //hi! =) life's good on my end. I survived junior year, I'm going to Taiwan, I'm almost free of the clutches of MCAT hell (even though it's actually kind of fun since I'm learning new things...), I pestered my favorite professor to let me do research in traditional chinese medicine, and apparently I'm good at public speaking. how're things going for y'all?

Your username is killing me :D

For the record, don't take advanced biochemistry for funsies 
          
          Don't. 
          
          Trust me on this. :) 
          
          A couple people messaged me recently, so I just wanted to say that I'm still alive. I really appreciate the concern though! I'm just really busy right now since I decided that I wanted to take classes that sounded interesting. (Alas, the interesting classes are also the really hard classes. But at least they're fun!) 
          
          One of these days, I'll be able to finish Know the Difference, since that story only has 5 or 6 chapters remaining in it. Maybe over winter break? Honestly, I don't even know when that's going to be updated, other than not anytime soon. Life's gotten really crazy lately.

Also, I might be wrong, but your profile pic looks like it has Bakugo from My Hero Academia. Are you a fan?

OMG A FELLOW MBTI TYPE FAN FINALLY. IM AN INTP, AND YOURE AN ENTJ. Lol we're almost opposites. You should check your enneagram type too, I'm a type 8 according to a site

I really, really like genetics. When genes are working fine and they're doing what they're supposed to, everything is cool and your body is happily making proteins. BUT, what I think it's REALLY fascinating about genetics is how these teeny, tiny mutations in genes can cause so many diseases. 
          
          Like, think about it, cancer is caused when your cells start to divide uncontrollably. And the reason why your cells divide uncontrollably is because there's a mutation somehow your cell's genes, which usually tells your cells to go back into the cell cycle when they're NOT supposed to. And then, what makes it even worse, is that there's usually some type of mutation that causes your cells to not die like they're supposed to. 
          
          Or, or, think about Huntington's disease, which is caused when the replication machinery for your cell doesn't work the way it's supposed to and it causes your cell to make too many of a specific protein. And this causes the nervous system to effectively shut down basically.  BUT, the problem with Huntington's disease, is that it only shows up in older adults, and it's actually really easy to pass down to the next generation. Theoretically, you could cure this by using this super cool technique called CRISPR-Cas9, which comes in and cuts out the mutation that is not supposed to be in your genome like a pair of tiny scissors, but it's sometimes not accurate and... there's a lot of cells in your body by the time you start showing symptoms for Huntington's... 
          
          Okay, CRISPR-cas9 is actually interesting. It's a pair of scissors that comes in and cuts mutations in genes that causes a disease. It can actually cut any region of DNA. But, like, it's not always affective and can cut sections that it's not supposed to cut.
          
          Okay, I'm done ranting about genes for now.  I really love learning science things and I got obsessed with genes last year.