Random biology student things no one talks about
Having strong opinions about the ethics of gene therapy, stem cells, etc. And by ethics I mean, why is this wrong? It makes no sense.
Knowing more about cancer than about literally anything else.
Seriously, they talk about cancer in every biology class.
Please worry about the earth. Global Warming is real, climate change is real.
*Walking, sees an interesting plant/animal/fungus* What’s that? Gotta find out about it. Cue 15 minutes of googling while your non-bio major friend stands and stares, exasperated.
Everything boils down to your genetic material, everything.
Rosalind Franklin deserved better!
Being mistaken for a medicine student by your relatives and non-science friends.
Knows more about recreational drugs than you ever will, believe me.
No biological system is perfect. No, not even DNA polymerase.
Knowing the right interpretation of “Survival of the fittest” and cringing every time it is used for an individual instead of a population.
Seriously, please worry about the earth.
*Cell biology professor voice* You know what we biologists are the best at? Borrowing stuff. Physicists make instruments, we borrow them. Chemists make dyes, we borrow them. Seriously, all we do is borrow everything from everyone and mix them together with a cell culture.
*Random date friend voice* Maybe you can teach me some “biology”. Me who hasn’t thought of the human reproductive system since class 12th: I don’t know how to say this to you, but you really don’t want me to do that.
Rosalind Franklin deserved better!!!
Being obligated to say “That’s a pretty colour” every time you take a solution out of the water bath and it has changed colour.
*Heard in a laboratory* Friend 1: Can I drink this dye? Friend 2: You can, but you’ll probably get cancer, or die. Friend 1: That’s the point.
Normal people: Stay away from liquid nitrogen. PhD scholar in a lab I interned in, 3 gloves on a hand: Imma put my entire hand in it for retrieving the Eppendorf tube.
Rosalind. Franklin. Deserved. Better.
Instrument’s called Gene Gun. Is a box.
Please, please worry about the earth.
Can spew random facts about Covid 19 off the top of their head. Same with the vaccine.
You will never get correct results on the first try, never. You are lucky if you get them the second time.
Non-bio major friend: It must be so easy for you, no maths in biology. Me: *flashback to all the equations in every single course of biology I have taken* Yeah, right.
ROSALIND FRANKLIN DESERVED BETTER
Please worry about the earth, please.