i'm a little teapot

I just checked my email and found my final exam marks for Theo! I retained my standing! WHEE!!!

Considering the fact that I wrote the Christological definition of the Council of Chalcedon when I should have explained the Vatican II Council -- which would give me a big fat ZERO on that essay -- I did rather well: 2.33. That grade means I got an average of 3.45 for my five other essays, which is definitely not so bad.

I really, really hate the fact that I completely forgot the Vatican II Christological definition, because I could have had a B+ in the exam instead of a measly C+. Woe.

But that woe isn't enough to excite feelings of gloom and doom because OMG I retained my standing! I am one step closer to getting into the Dean's List, mwahaha!

I FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT!!

The vascular bundle of a monocot stem LOOKS LIKE THE ALIENS FROM INDEPENDENCE DAY while the vascular bundle of a dicot stem LOOKS LIKE THE FOOTPRINTS OF GODZILLA.

The vascular bundle of a dicot plant has TWO extra components - VASCULAR CAMBIA (sing., cambium) and TRACHEIDS. The vascular cambium is the reason why dicots have FIRMER STEMS. A tracheid is an elongated cell inside the xylem that TRANSPORTS WATER.

There are five kinds of secondary walls that may be inside a tracheid. There's the annular, helical, scalariform, reticulate and pitted.

THERE. I SUMMARIZED IT ALL.

I AM NOT GOING TO FAIL BOTANY I AM NOT!!!!