Throughout my life I have never truly enjoyed looking at, or searching for bugs. When I was a child, one of my younger brothers put a worm in my hair and it scarred me horribly. I do not like insects, they do not mesh well with me. Every time I see a cockroach I either run away from it or I will spray it with that stuff spray that kills them instantly. Freshman year took my hatred for cockroaches to a whole new level. I literally would scream as loud as I could when I would see one running across the hall of my dorm. One instance that really fueled my hate fire for cockroaches is when the janitors were fixing our water fountain in our freshman dorm. They took out the fountain which left a gaping, dark hole in the wall. Right at that moment when I decided to walk down the hallway that day, at least ten cockroaches crawled out of the wall. It was probably one of the most scary things that has ever happened to me in my mind. I ran to my room and slammed my door shut. I put a towel under the door so none could crawl into my room, and I called all of my friends on the hall and told them to do the same. 

I am not an easily scared person, but cockroaches really seem to bother me more than any other living creature. I believe it is because I do not know very much about them though. I feel like learning about them could help ease my fear and give me the chance to have some kind of respect for them. I am not sure if this is possible due to how much I hate them currently, but I will try my best to learn about them with an open mind. 

I thought the bug bit video was very interesting. I liked how they made it funny while at the same time making it informative. I did not know anything about bugs before watching that video, so everything that they explained was interesting to me. I think they did a really nice job explaining in a short video the basic knowledge of bugs. I am really interested to see what this class does for not only my growth in knowledge about bugs, but also for my feelings about them. I would love to come out of this class conquering my fear, but I guess we will just have to wait and see!

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