Personal Essay: My Cape Henelopen Journey

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”- Benjamin Franklin. The Cape Henelopen trip would be a prodigious and beneficial experience for me to have because; when I get older I plan to become a neurologist or a veterinarian. And in the much nearer future, I plan on taking honors science and going to college for a degree in a science. Also at a younger age I went to Calvert Cliffs (Chesapeake Bay) to find fossils. To start off when I get older I plan on being a neurologist or a veterinarian, and to be a part of this experience would allow me to enhance my knowledge of the anatomy of the animals and as it says in the info packet we will be dissecting a perch or sunfish. It also states that we will collect any wildlife we can obtain within our limits. I will also be able to experience first-hand how quickly the animals we study will be to registering recognizing and reacting to fear (the fight or flight response.) I will also be able to see what it takes to trigger this reaction. And while there I will be able to see how the environment effects …show more content…
I will need this when I take honors science next year and in many other classes because the same principles apply. To add on I will learn more prospectively in science out there than I ever will in the three days I’m missing of the classroom setting, because as Benjamin Franklin said “tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” And as statistics show, you will be able to retain about seventy five percent of what you learned if you’re involved in the subject. It will also give me sort of a diminished experience of being in a dorm room or sharing a room with others. While looking towards the future is always good, sometimes you have to remember the past in order to learn and move