Megan’s Mind

  (These were pulled out of an AP Environmental Sciences textbook) Guys, it's just science. Single organisms depend on consistent inputs of energy in order to live, grow, and make babies. Literally everything beyond an organism can be seen as converting energy into an organized structure like sticks and those green things that grow on them. Like think of a whole forests ecosystem or whatever its called, the trees absorb water and carbon through the ground like a straw. But later, a deer grazes in tree leaves, and then after that a mountain lion devours the poor deer. At every stepping stone of this process, energy is changed by organisms into action and movement. And if you don't know what I mean by actions and movement, I mean that any type of PHYSICAL ACTIVITY that is done in order to achieve something, like an award that I've never gotten.  Guys, its literally just science, the amount of energy thats there in a place depends on what life lives there. For real though, pla...

     If you were to ask younger me what her favorite candies were, she would probably say those coffee candies. The same ones that were sold at the local Vietnamese market, or those chocolate sticks that she and her brother shared since it was a two in one package. They were both completely different sweets, yet every time I ate them they tasted like home. When I was in kindergarten I would have to wait in the classroom to be picked up afterschool. There was this one kid Allen (fake name) who would also always be in the classroom waiting to be picked up. One day, I spotted this bright yellow packaging in the side pocket of his backpack. Didn’t think anything of it. Then this one kid asks him, “can I have some of your sour patch kids?” What’s a sour patch kid? Allen proceeds to grab that yellow bag out of the side of the backpack and tear it open to hand this kid a “sour patch kid”. When I first saw these, I really thought they were erasers. I mean how could something be s...

    This week in class we read and analyzed This is Water by David Foster Wallace. We confirmed that his targeted audience was to college students, as he refers back to his younger self that was in college. I enjoyed this piece and wanted to talk a little bit more about the “water” metaphor that Wallace used. In the beginning of the text he starts off by telling us a fable of two young fishes “swimming along”. As they are swimming they run into an older fish who says to them, “morning boys, how’s the water?” Later the young fishes contemplate, what is water? If you think about it, fishes don’t know the outside world out of their “water”. They think that the water that they live in is just normal life. My take on this is that the young fishes represent college students who haven’t gotten a taste of the real world yet, hence them being in the water still. Too add on to this, he brings up another reoccurring metaphor about your “default setting”. The meaning behind  default ...

  These past two weeks we’ve been focusing a lot on memorials and the deeper meanings to these memorials. But there was only really one that caught my attention. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial located in Washington D.C.. Previously, we were assigned to read a passage from Postcard from the Trenches by Allyson Booth. Throughout the passage there was a reoccurring idea, the relationship between corpses and corspelessness. I believe this means the balance and between life and death. In the Vietnam Memorial, the memorial is built to where it is placed in the center of a field surrounded by trees (as seen in the photo above). I’m assuming this was done on purpose to show the contrast of the dead and living, but how there is a harmony in between because there is no death without life. To add on to this the architect of the memorial Maya Lin, even said that she wanted to create an interface between “our world” and the “quieter, darker, more peaceful world beyond”. I also find the little de...