I hate it when it happens. It's ok if it's some topic that I dislike (like biochem)... I can miss all the lectures it has and couldn't care less (hmm... putting grades aside for the mo). But not when the lecture is on amphibians!!
My alarm didn't ring. I overslept. Arrrghh... there goes my vow of attending every single lecture this module has. That's not the point though. The main point is that it's on AMPHIBIANS! One of my fav groups of animals... and when I got the notes, guess what's the big pic on the first slide? An axolotle!! Ahhh~~ AXOLOTLE!! Go do a search on Google for 'axolotle', and look at that cute face! Oooooo I miss Abbotsleigh's lab pet Aristotle the Axolotle. I hope the new students are catching enough tadpoles for it to eat.
The second lecture was on REPTILES! Lizards! Snakes! Even the famous tuatara (apparently nobody here has heard of it before?) from New Zealand was featured, albeit a cameo. Learnt about the evolution of reptiles as well - which includes the dinos. So just like yesterday, we went to the Natural History Museum to take a peep at the displays of extinct marine reptiles. Visited the arthropod (insects, spiders etc.) section as well.
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