I wish I were taking microbio or biochem now. No, I saved Physics (5 unit course) for last...
Anybody else save your hardest classes for last semester??
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Ouch! I did well in physics but worked VERY, VERY hard. Math is not my forte. Just reading the posts on the Pi day thread made me feel a tad woosey.
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I have no problems in math but I still shake my head about that Pi thread. I just don't understand it.
By the way tricolor..... I could use your signature with just a small change... "turning around and watching your dog run to the corner and sit down and pose for the video camera at the national specialty... priceless."
My dog never saw a camera she didn't want to pose for! I was VERY embarassed especially as I have a friend who bought the DVD and loved to show me the clip.
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Oh don't get me wrong, I LOVE genetics! I love labs in which you work with really cool equipment and stuff... but micro was just so... i dunno... not glamorous (at least in undergrad lab class anyway)??? 😛 I mean, those experiments have been around for sooooooooo many years! A lot of genetic experiments on the other hand, tend to be really new and shiny just from the fact that most of the techniques haven't been around for very long.
Biochem lab, we got to use MALDI-TOFs and 2D NMR. Orgo, we had unlimited use (unsupervised) of the NMR machine. Genetics and Cell Phys we did quite a few cool things too... but Micro? In Micro we just pretty much got fisher burners and sterile sticks, and bunch of different types of media. And on top of that we had to keep coming back outside of lab time to inoculate cultures and stuff. Talk about lame.
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StartingoverVet,
Well, this is definitely off topic.........Before I started agility, I went to a trial and filmed the novice class. One very big gal fell on her doberman at the beginning of the run. I caught it on tape. Saw this gal 2 or so years later and I recognized her because I watched this tape over and over and over. She was not pleased when I greeted her with, "I know you don't know me but are you the one who fell on your doberman during a novice run a couple of years back?" I just had to know.
Her reply was something about burning the tape.
Yeah, my people skills are still a work in progress.
If you can post it on youtube I promise to watch it!
Well, this is definitely off topic.........Before I started agility, I went to a trial and filmed the novice class. One very big gal fell on her doberman at the beginning of the run. I caught it on tape. Saw this gal 2 or so years later and I recognized her because I watched this tape over and over and over. She was not pleased when I greeted her with, "I know you don't know me but are you the one who fell on your doberman during a novice run a couple of years back?" I just had to know.
Her reply was something about burning the tape.
Yeah, my people skills are still a work in progress.
If you can post it on youtube I promise to watch it!
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physics was no joke...hard and painful class that i only did well in because i got tutoring. good luck der.
takin cell and mole bio this quarter...tues is the final and i just don't care anymore (my last undergrad class). haven't really been all there mentally this quarter w/ interviews and the waiting, but have been doing well enough. two more days
takin cell and mole bio this quarter...tues is the final and i just don't care anymore (my last undergrad class). haven't really been all there mentally this quarter w/ interviews and the waiting, but have been doing well enough. two more days
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I have biochem and mammalian anatomy and physiology this semester. It isn't that I left the hardest classes for last but that I left two fairly hard classes for when I am brain dead and have no motivation for school anymore. I just want to graduate and go to vet school but I have to make sure I get C's this semester and it is amazing how I can't get myself to do any work.
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Parts of this are truly tedious, I'll give you that. I work with anaerobic organisms. Processing tissue samples in a Coy chamber for 8+ hours is definitely not the highlight of my career.
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Finishing up with anatomy, embryology, physics, and biochem last 2 quarters.
motivation has been seriously lacking during interview season but I am at least interested in the material. Once I make my decision I think I won't mind so much. Uncertainty is the killer.
motivation has been seriously lacking during interview season but I am at least interested in the material. Once I make my decision I think I won't mind so much. Uncertainty is the killer.
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I'm not in class but since my vet school acceptance, I've become somewhat brain dead at work. I also want to just get on with being..😏..err..becoming a vet student.
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I'm doing biochem this semester, and after blowing off the first test for interviews, I'm terrified about it. I usually have a pretty good buffer in classes, where if I screw up a test, its no big deal, but now I'm in the position where I really have to kick ass on the last few tests in order to pass with a C. I'm debating dropping it, and starting over with an online class.
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!!! That would have made the lab so much cooler! NMR was one of my favorite parts.
where are you taking your classes? UCLA or CalstateLA? I'm in LA too 🙂
Just need to get through it...I'm sure you'll do fine!
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UCLA (mostly extension).. actually getting easy now because I am finished with my job! Suddenly have lots of time on my hands. What do I do with my time? Study? No, I read SDN constantly.😳
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Eukaryotic Cell Biology =😡👎
**Just to make it that much worse.. now that I did not get into Michigan, it is a waste of time class as it is not needed for Missouri or Ohio.. what a *fun* elective**
I must've had the easiest professor for this class. Everyone I know who took the class, either with a different professor or at another school entirely, has hated it. I really enjoyed it, but that's probably because it wasn't chemical engineering.
We didn't have to know the amino acids for this professor, which is a huge part of the other professor's class, and it probably helped that we had the information spread through 6 tests, which meant 6 study guides that were specific enough to help you learn what you needed to know.
Anyway, I do not think I'll have saved my hardest classes for my last semester. The hardest part will be having to sit through an all-Powerpoint lecture with my advisor. He's so intelligent, but he's so monotonous and puts the derivations for all the equations we need to use on the slides... but then never lets us know what the "big" equations are. Oh, and most of the class uses files because his homeworks never change. Basically, his classes should be easy, but they end up being difficult because his homework (for those of us who do not use files) and grading is BS. Fortunately, I've made it through 3 of his classes already... just one more to go!
