The end of the botanical Sciences

Today the University of West Florida held the regional Science Fair. Since Dr. Winter is asked every year to judge the Botany section of it, she asked that I would also help judge. So I spent my night looking at the projects from middle school and high school students.

So I get to the Science Fair and receive my packet of information. I see about 16 projects dealing with Botany, the funny thing is there are about 5 different projects, since this is regionals most of the students do not know each other. It turns out to be really repetitive since they are all the same. Of course there are a few that were just horrible and then a few that were decent. Out of the 16 I would really say that only one student was truly enjoying doing Botany as a project. I mean how hard is it to do a light experiment with plants?? Looking at the other sections of the fair, Botany was dwarfed. Which is unfortunate because all the people in my classes the only reason they are taking the botany courses are because they are required by the school. Which is a shame, out of the entire biology department there are about 4 Botany Grad students, of which 2 are about to graduate, leaving myself and another person. Not looking good for the future of botany. After talking with Dr. Winter and Dr. Fox, I have learned that many of the botany programs around the country are being incorporated into other programs. Hell UWF doesn't even have a botany program anymore, they decided not enough people were taking it. See people care more about animals then they do plants, shit look at what you eat and you'll notice the majority of it is plant products. You have organizations like those terrorist fucks PETA, don't harm the animals but let's cut down acres of trees, we don't need to fucking breath. Granted 80% of the worlds oxygen comes from the cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae. You can cut down the rainforest, you will lose probably hundreds of species of plants and animals that may have some kind of medicinal benefit.

Well enough of that rant there.

"Friends"

So you wonder who your friends are. You have really good friends from high school, you hung out all the time together, spent a ton of hours playing RPGs. And yet you leave to go to school, which you're the only person to do so out of your group of friends. Yeah some went off to school but none of the left the state for 4 years. You would think that when you came back for winter breaks and what not they would want to see you, but alas that is not the case. So you think to yourself excuse me for leaving to learn and damn I'm sorry I left the state to pursue knowledge. You shrug it off and then graduate. So you think to yourself once again hell I think I'll come home and work and it will be like old times. Wrong again, hell they don't even recognize you when you walk by them. So you work alot to make up for it and then find other friends. And then decide fuck this I'm wasting my time working, I really want to pursue my education further. So you decide to leave and then all of a sudden they are like man it going to suck not having you around. And you think to yourself what the fuck, if that is the case then you could have called, not hard to pick up the damn phone now is it, of course you forget to mention that you tried several fucking times but they just ignore you. Shit one friend leaves the country and they talk to him more than they do you.

Then one friend decides to get married, and they have your address, or so you would think. And you think to yourself will you get an invitation? Probably not. Will you really care? Not really. Would you go if you got one? No. Why?? Because you get tired of being treated like shit, even when you tried, so you think to yourself fuck it.