The Human Genome

The Human Genome lecture. Honestly, that was the hardest lecture for me to relate to. The professor went into this strange conversasion about Ancesteral Memory, something I thought I'd never hear outside of a discussion about Assassin's Creed. She went off into all sorts of strange and barely connected tangents and I'm not sure what exactly she was trying to say: that we're already perfect? That we have all that we need sealed away into our DNA? That our species' Nitrogenous Base Sequences are somehow more divine than the Base Sequences of other lifeforms? I really didn't know what to take away from that lecture. I'm not that bad at understanding metaphors, but I'm not a terribly reflective person either. Maybe her lecture just encompassed one of those concepts I do not, and perhaps never will, understand. I think my groupmates felt the same way, seeing as no one had written this entry, even though I specifically asked one of them to do so (Tsk, Tsk). Or maybe she just couldn't articulate her point well. Some other lectures were a lot more steeped in metaphors and allegory, but I understood them well enough to reflect upon them instead of just repeating their words. I really, truely, don't know what she was talking about. It just made me angrey confused.