Antiquated biochem prof

[gatsbyjo]

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Does anybody else have a biochem instructor that refuses to use current terminology? Do the handouts look like caveman etchings?

Its interesting when i can't even "google" some of the names for enzymes this guy gives us. It makes studying really fun to try and figure out what he's talking about, then figure out the corresponding step in our text, and then decide which name to learn: the one for his tests or the one for REALITY.

grr.

 

[gatsbyjo]

Update: he has now started inventing his own words. Apparently "lysol" is the term I will be using for lysosome space, and "mitosol" for mitochondrial matrix space.

you would THINK HE WAS JOKING BUT NOPE! Complete seriousness.

 

[JunkintheTrunk]

Update: he has now started inventing his own words. Apparently "lysol" is the term I will be using for lysosome space, and "mitosol" for mitochondrial matrix space.

you would THINK HE WAS JOKING BUT NOPE! Complete seriousness.

hahahah....that's pretty funny 😛 our biochem prof isn't quite AS bad...but he is absentminded: "i know i had something REALLLY important to say about this figure but i don't remember what it was..." hahah...any more examples of funny words/enzyme names he uses? i get a kick out of this stuff 🙂

 

[gatsbyjo]

He does end every lecture 4 minutes late, in mid sentence, with the word "cheers"

He is also our only professor to use an OVERHEAD PROJECTOR! yeah forgetting looking THOSE slides up online

And did I mention he has a fascination with how to kill people with metabolic inhibitors? He gave a ten minute tangent on pentavelant and trivalent arsenic and which would kill you faster.....wait, not kill YOU but which one you should use to kill someone, which is even creepier

the other day he was openly mocking the "newfangled" names of the enzymes for gluconeogenesis, apparently his random string of letters is more LOGICAL.