Xavi's 2019 Psychology Blog

The article i found list some cool facts about hearing. I found it pretty cool that earwax has been used by anthropologist to trace early migration patterns even though i don't really understand why. I also found out that certain organisms like snakes and mosquitos use other ways to hear things like their jawbones or antenna. I also found out that if you listen to music that is as low as 120 decibels, you can damage your hearing in just seven and a half minutes.  In addition, I thought the craziest thing that I read was that during WWI, Paris placed parrots on the eiffel tower because of their incredible sense of hearing. They would alert the French government if they ever heard danger coming their way. The picture i put below is a picture of a superhero i really like named "Daredevil". He is blind but because he is blind, is sense of hearing has heightened to an extreme level. He fights crime with his mask covering his eyes and locates bad people throughout the city b...

The life of Xavier Ibarrola... It all started on a dark stormy night. The day was September 17, 2001, six days after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. I do not remember my first steps or my first words but from what I've been told, my first word was ma-ma. When I started puberty, it was really weird. I started getting an extreme abundance of voice cracks and my behavior was unordinarily erratic. I developed emotional attachments to my friends and family that enabled me to become a sociable person in my classes. I started to visit them more and more the farther I went into puberty because it was always fun to hang out with them. Up to this day I still hang out with my friends and family all the time so that I establish longer relationships and have fun. In the future I hope to graduate with a strong GPA and a strong rank in June of 2020. I hope to go to A&M or UT Austin and get a degree in chemical or mechanical engineering. I have family that went to UT and family that...