My Journey Learning the Science of Life

Hi! My name is Elina Vanuska and I am a senior at Notre Dame High School! I enjoy swimming, water polo, surfing and basically anything aquatic. I’m very passionate about sports, especially aquatic sports, and I want to know more about the physical effects of being so active. I also have a recurring shoulder injury due to swimming and water polo that has pushed me to learn more about the human body. This leads me into the fact that I’m interested in human biology, marine biology and biology in general. I’m not really sure what I want to do with this passion, however, I’m taking AP Bio and Sports Medicine to find out more of what I want to do. Along with biology and sports, I also love traveling, baking and hanging out with friends. I’m very excited to start both AP Bio and Sports Medicine to learn more about biology in general, the specific aspects of the human body and sports, and how all that relates back to me. I expect both of these courses to be fun and challenging at the same time, because having to memorize lots of muscles and information on cells is going to be a lot of work. However, I’m definitely looking forward to a good year!

 

 

 

End of the year reflection!

This experience of creating a website and publishing content was definitely one that I will remember and utilize the skills learned in the future. I never thought I would be creating a website in high school, so it was definitely a new experience for me. At first, it seemed very daunting, however, because I use this website to update content for various classes, I have been able to constantly update the site, become more efficient at creating posts and know what the audience is looking for. I personally thought the pages and presentations I did on Progeria and Ebola. Those projects I put a lot of research, effort and creativity to create and I will definitely remember those projects, as we even tried to come up with solutions and cures to the Ebola virus. This website has been a way for me to publish what content I’m learning in biology and connect with people who are also learning similar things as I am. This website has created a community of biology students for me to be able to network with. I also realized that collaboration with other people and students are big parts of education and work and reading and commenting on other people’s websites was definitely interesting, as I was able to see other people’s opinions and projects.

I have learned how to publish and maintain a website, which I believe will be helpful in the future as many jobs and opportunities utilize WordPress, website creation and other digital tools that I have learned to use this year. I’m not sure if I will be using this website the next school year, however I will be keeping it up so other students and interested readers can look at the content. I plan on majoring in a life science related field at UCLA next year, perhaps biology or neuroscience, however nothing is certain and only time will tell. This blog was a great experience and I’m glad I got the opportunity to learn how to not only maintain a blog, but also learn to present myself on the internet and create a presence for myself!

 

Here are my tips for the future students of AP Bio!

 

 

Feel free to look at my posts and pages that I’ve created throughout the year!