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It is understandable that the students in this class all come from different scientific backgrounds and so it can not be assumed that concepts like osmosis/hypertonic/hypotonic/concentration gradients/etc to be common knowledge. But its irritating to find yourself as one of the few that aware of the answer to the "big" questions behind the ink dispersing in the different beakers or the onion cells undergoing inhibition. But its more agravating because you don't amount to anything with that. It felt so unfullfilling.

I constantly see our profs avoiding using the exclusive jargon associated with heavy duty science with good reason. We have come to understand, better said, memorize, how something happens and ignore why it is able to happen. Knowing the technical terms off of the top of our heads does not mean that we understand the topic at hand any better. Science is much simplier than that and so going into this the lab with a clean slate so to speak, allows us to actually grasp the story, not just the title.