Quest 1
demonstration of critical thinking, problem solving and effective communication skills
Senior Paper: The Brain
The Brain is the universe of your body. There are so many things that we have found out in the past years and so much more to find out. I am very interested in this because of many personal connections I have to wanting to study it, now and in the future. There are so many levels of what you can invest your time in studying. I will cover the bases of anatomy on the brain, the purpose of those parts, and the way drugs and alcohol chemically affect the brain.
The human body, along with almost all multicellular organisms, has its own communication system. The cells are specialized to carry messages to each other; this makes the body efficiently perform every task in an organized and direct way. The nervous system is part of these specialized cells, our nervous system responds to inner and outer stimulants by overseeing and controlling all of our functions.
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I went to Aspen High School for 2 ¾ years, almost completed my junior year. I had never been into science or given it a second though until I took Biology II with Karen Zohar. She was the most amazing teacher, she and I would talk all about the brain and “how we have thoughts.” You would have thought it was a twist on philosophy. Thought provoking, open-ended questions were always the starting point of a stimulating conversation. I invested time into deciding that I officially wanted to go to college because I knew what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, find out how we have thoughts. It is all just impulse flowing through neurons by electricity and passing to the net with help of chemicals. If that is how every brain works, how are we all unique with different thoughts and different dreams?
I am so curious about our brains. We use our brain all day, everyday. We mess with it on a daily basis, whether something small like sugar or caffeine, or something major along the lines of drugs. I love how there are so many possibilities of what we can learn about the most complicated technology known to man: our brain. Even further, what we don’t know because we don’t even know what is there.
The human body, along with almost all multicellular organisms, has its own communication system. The cells are specialized to carry messages to each other; this makes the body efficiently perform every task in an organized and direct way. The nervous system is part of these specialized cells, our nervous system responds to inner and outer stimulants by overseeing and controlling all of our functions.
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I went to Aspen High School for 2 ¾ years, almost completed my junior year. I had never been into science or given it a second though until I took Biology II with Karen Zohar. She was the most amazing teacher, she and I would talk all about the brain and “how we have thoughts.” You would have thought it was a twist on philosophy. Thought provoking, open-ended questions were always the starting point of a stimulating conversation. I invested time into deciding that I officially wanted to go to college because I knew what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, find out how we have thoughts. It is all just impulse flowing through neurons by electricity and passing to the net with help of chemicals. If that is how every brain works, how are we all unique with different thoughts and different dreams?
I am so curious about our brains. We use our brain all day, everyday. We mess with it on a daily basis, whether something small like sugar or caffeine, or something major along the lines of drugs. I love how there are so many possibilities of what we can learn about the most complicated technology known to man: our brain. Even further, what we don’t know because we don’t even know what is there.