Graduation Time in Cell City

Graduation in Cell City

This is the story of graduation time in Cell City. As students at Cell City School (ribosomes) reach graduation (endoplasmic reticulum) time, they begin to realize that they must now find a career or job that they will hold for the rest of their life. Although their time under Principal Lipid (nucleoli) was fun, it is now time to move out into the world. They are the future generation of the city, making up an entire population (microfilaments) of their own. Some of the students will become the security guards around the town (cell wall), while others will become security within the city, or police officers (plasma membrane). Both of these occupations would deal with working with a jail (nuclear envelope). Another job may be working at the town hall (nucleus), or maybe at the library (chromosomes). Some may go on to be construction workers (intermediate filaments) that build the houses (microtubules) of the city which make up the neighborhoods (centrioles) which then ultimately lead to the city’s skyline (cytoskeleton). Other jobs available include working at the city power plant (mitochondria), working at the grocery store (vacuoles), working at McDonald’s (plastids), working at the local Kikkoman factory (golgi complex), and last but not least, working at the town dump (lysosomes). All of the graduates are excited to move out into the world. Some will remain in the city, while others may leave, but one things for sure – no one will ever forget the beautiful landscape of the trees (peroxisomes) and lakes (cilia, flagella) that made up their home town. Thank goodness they grew up in Cell City. Goodbye Cell City School, hello world!