Tavishi When I tell someone I'm interested in marine biology, the general assumption is that I love warm-water tropical animals. While I do love a good turtle or dolphin, my interest is piqued more by cold-water strange animals. When it comes to pinnipeds, I'm especially fascinated by the Antarctic species, or the lobodontine seals, including the crabeater, leopard, Weddell, and ross seals. Unfortunately for me, this means if my future follows my goals, I'm going to live in t

Tavishi College continues to go swimmingly! I've started to run into the issue of having too many events I want to go to and too little time. Thankfully, I have time management skills (I CAN do everything I just need to lock in!!!!). Jokes aside, I did have to skip a suturing practical with the Surgical Society that I REALLY wanted to go to... I did, however, do all the pre-reading beforehand (I cannot help but read about whatever I'm about to do before I go in.) I thought I

Tavishi I love being able to understand the minutia of how an enzyme or tiny little protein works, and how that echoes into greater pathological conditions. Currently, the class (module is what we call it here) that we are working through at school is Inheritance, Genetics, and Evolution. This is great and really scratches my microbiology itch. One of my favorite classes of enzymes are methyltransferases, which are enzymes which add methyl groups to things. A methyl group is