Today, the speaker was Georgia M. Dunston and she was a very encouraging woman. She was so ecstatic about our arrival at Howard that she barely got to show us her power point slides! She called our generation the “problem solving generation.” She spoke on how the generation before us, which was her generation, messed everything up for us and left us with so many problems and unanswered questions. She said that we are part of the “knowledge revolution” and that knowledge by itself is definitely no guarantee of success, and that you also need wisdom. Her powerpoint began with, "Age of the Human Genome Knowledge." I learned that we have 23 chromosomes and trillions of cells. These cells contain very important information that concerns our appearance as well as some specific talents that we will inherit. She stated that a genome doesn't only tell us about our biology, but also about our history. She then went on to rhetorically ask us, "Who taught the DNA how to make the body?" She informed us that the genome study was the study of human kind. She told us that genomes are the language of God and that they’re also the language of life. I liked her lesson. It was somewhat inspiring and I definitely liked how excited she got about our first year here and how that almost completely distracted her from her presentation.
-Rebecca Zoll
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