from a smell to guelphs.

thought process triggered by a smell:

-weird smell from the stems of a bunch of flowers
-reminiscent of an odor in a high school bio experiment
-google "oxytocin" (turns out, it's a red herring. i must've remembered it because of a times article by david brooks)
-google "plant growth hormone"
-auxin! yes, that's it! and in my head, auxin is always paired with gibberellin.
-the same time we were learning about gibberellin in bio, we were learning about ghibellines in social science.
-ghibellines are always paired with guelphs

the train of thought goes from smell to auxin to gibberellin to ghibellines to guelphs.

the train rumbles on:
third year bio can be summed up in the phrase "cyclopentanoperhydrophenanthrenes are actually steroids."

second year bio in a nutshell is "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny."

college? well. chem 17... the four laws of thermodynamics as stated by Ma'am Cruz:
1. i forget what the first is.
2. nothing is free. (conservation of energy)
3. you always pay for what you get, and you always get less than what you pay for. (entropy)
4. perfection is impossible. ("the entropy of a perfectly crystalline body at absolute zero temperature is zero.")

enough! between this and not knowing who i am, my eyes are starting to glaze over.