Week 5

This webpage article was about the sense of taste and giving 12 interesting facts about it which most people would not have known. In class we have actually gone over some such as taste being controlled by the brain or how without smell, taste essentially does not exist. But some new things were also brought up such as how sweet foods actually help develop episodic memory. Episodic memory is memory that’s associated with an event particularly small so maybe the taste of something. Also I did the color challenge and found out that I can see colors perfectly fine. In fact I got a 0 which is a perfect score, so that’s pretty cool.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/72232/12-delectable-facts-about-science-taste

Week 4 Life Story

I was born on September 18th 2001 in New York City. Both my mom and my dad were born in different parts of South India. They both traveled together to America where they had my older brother Allan in 96. 5 years later they decided to have me. I guess I was just too much to handle because all of my parents generation of both my mom's side and my dad's side stopped having kids after I was born. As such I grew up the youngest in my family and with a pretty big age gap between all my cousins. However, I didn't really care for that because most of my time was spent with my closest friends Arun and Rufus who I met in New York. One memory that I can clearly remember was the first time visiting New York again and seeing them for the first time since I was 5. I was 9 and even though it had been 4 years, our friendship was still strong. I remember we made all sorts of promises with eachother like how we'd be the best man at eachother's weddings and we'd all have kids that would be best friends with eachother. In elementary school, things were different for me. Obviously as a kid, I hated the fact that I had to move away from my friends and go to Texas. As such I had a hard time really making myself at home or making any close friendships in elementary. Going into middle school, I completely changed. I became a more open minded person and more adventurous when it came to trying new things. In high school, I learned a lot more about what I wanted to be like and the things I wanted to accomplish. I started especially becoming more involved with my church. Balancing social life with school work and church activities really helped me learn my strengths and see my weaknesses as well.
Future: After graduating high school, I'll go into college for a program in radiology. If I can preferably UT would be my choice as they have a great program there. Before I get married, I would want to have myself established financially. I would marry before I'm 30 and do not have a preference on the number of kids I have. I definitely would like to have a girl however because my Mom always wanted to have one. I will probably retire once my kids have jobs and I would want to live life for as long as I can so I could see my grandkids or even great grandkids.