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ksmi117 said:
Stupid exams. 👎
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Good luck! Is it midterm time? Or do midterms usually come in March for you?

brooklynblunder said:
whatup
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Just workin' here.

jackson1 said:
not much, what about you? i went to yoga class then just had a little leftover lo mein and chips w guac for lunch. probably a weird combo but it was delicious. now i'm teaching my little one how to spell the colors and she's drawing them on a piece of paper with the color marker she's spelling. a very exciting day so far as you can see🙂
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Yoga class sounds cool! I've never been to a class for that before. And I love hearing all your happenings as a nanny. Those kids seem so cute!
 
I should be doing the book review or other homework I have due tomorrow.

Instead, I'm catching up on Heroes.
 
Sammich117 said:
I should be doing the book review or other homework I have due tomorrow.

Instead, I'm catching up on Heroes.
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Procrastination!!

I could never get into that show... Isn't the series ending soon? I don't where I heard this...
 
lstone13 said:
Procrastination!!

I could never get into that show... Isn't the series ending soon? I don't where I heard this...
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I only saw the first two seasons and it's one of the only streaming series on netflix right now that I want to watch. So I still have a bunch to go. I'm not sure if it's ending soon. I think the 5th season just ended?
 
lstone13 said:
Yoga class sounds cool! I've never been to a class for that before. And I love hearing all your happenings as a nanny. Those kids seem so cute!
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ya it was fun! i'd been to the pilates one before but not the yoga-it was relaxing and was a pretty good workout. lots of balancing on one arm or one leg so my muscles got tired which i wasn't really expecting.

haha i'm glad you like hearing about my kids🙂 they're really awesome, such cutie pies and good listeners. i'm gonna miss them so much next year! i'll have to buy them a webcam or something so i can still talk to them.


glad you did well on your test met!
 
i loved the first semester of biochem (good prof), but couldn't take the second semester due to credit load and time conflicted with my thesis meeting.. i was a bit sad, but i'm thinking maybe it was a good deal afterall
 
CielloStelatto said:
i loved the first semester of biochem (good prof), but couldn't take the second semester due to credit load and time conflicted with my thesis meeting.. i was a bit sad, but i'm thinking maybe it was a good deal afterall
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i think you got lucky. I did the same thing skipping the 2nd class, but a few of my friends took it and got owned....🙁. Biochem was one of my fav classes though!
 
Yeah, I don't really know what my problem is with Biochem. I just don't like it and I find it very pointless. I know I don't have a good prof, though - so maybe that's part of the problem.
 
metallica81788 said:
Yeah, I don't really know what my problem is with Biochem. I just don't like it and I find it very pointless. I know I don't have a good prof, though - so maybe that's part of the problem.
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I didn't like how Biochem wasn't about principles or patterns...it was just straight up content to be memorized. Granted, a lot of medical school material will be like that, but I came into it expecting a class like Organic (which I loved).
 
metallica81788 said:
Yeah, I don't really know what my problem is with Biochem. I just don't like it and I find it very pointless. I know I don't have a good prof, though - so maybe that's part of the problem.
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i liked biochem much more than most of the basic science classes. i feel like the teacher makes such a huge difference in whether you like a class or not. i had terrible physics teachers in hs and college and hate physics, but i had awesome stats teachers and love statistics, which is a class a lot of people seem to hate. it's kind of sad that a bad prof can turn you off of a subject that could have been really interesting if presented in a different way. at least you only a couple more months of biochem in college!
 
i feel like there's definitely really bad ways to teach biochem (i.e., here's this pathway: memorize it) and other, more interesting ways to teach it (i.e., this pathway works and makes sense because of these principles, which combines with...etc, etc)
 
bobsmith said:
i feel like there's definitely really bad ways to teach biochem (i.e., here's this pathway: memorize it) and other, more interesting ways to teach it (i.e., this pathway works and makes sense because of these principles, which combines with...etc, etc)
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i liked that my teacher tried to tie the cycles or pathways to current research or medical illnesses. it made the information more salient in my mind. and i love little tid bits of trivia. hopefully med school will follow along the same trail.
 
RunningDiva said:
i liked that my teacher tried to tie the cycles or pathways to current research or medical illnesses. it made the information more salient in my mind. and i love little tid bits of trivia. hopefully med school will follow along the same trail.
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yeah, things are definitely easier to remember/more interesting when it relates to something rather than just trying to be learned in isolation

i'm guessing that med school lectures will probably just be the same mixture -- some teachers that are really bad and just drone on and on and some that make things more interesting
 
I'm not a big fan of biochem no matter how you slice it it's just rote memorization. I liked organic because it's more applicaton/problem solving stuff.
 
bobsmith said:
yeah, things are definitely easier to remember/more interesting when it relates to something rather than just trying to be learned in isolation

i'm guessing that med school lectures will probably just be the same mixture -- some teachers that are really bad and just drone on and on and some that make things more interesting
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yeah have totally experienced both. some just really enjoy teaching and make an effort to engage students in the learning. some teach b/c its required for their faculty spot.
 
yeah some of my M1 friends talk about how the really bad lecturers just talk for hours about their really small area of research
 
bobsmith said:
yeah some of my M1 friends talk about how the really bad lecturers just talk for hours about their really small area of research
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😴 unless you want a spot in their lab. then you look like :bow:.
 
DrYoda said:
I'm not a big fan of biochem no matter how you slice it it's just rote memorization. I liked organic because it's more applicaton/problem solving stuff.
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i'm the complete opposite-i'm good at memorizing and prefer that to problem solving any day. i had a much harder time with physics and ochem than with bio, biochem, metabolic nutrition, etc
 
I think most of our lecturers are good. There is this one lady who lectures only rarely and you can just tell the administration is holding a gun to her head to get her into the lecture hall. Only person who i've slammed terribly on evals.
 
DrYoda said:
Recorded lectures are truely a great invention. I don't have the attention span for continuous lecturing.
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I've heard this from a ton of people - that it's not worth going to actual class if it's taped. How many people actually show up to classes?
 
I realized this afternoon that I must make a larger spectacle of myself than I realize. My goal for med school was to lay low... but it seems all kinds of obscure people know me. Grad students, PA students ect they all seem to know who I am:scared:.

Ninja fail.
 
i think it would be nice to go to class sometimes just to see people and not be a loner all day

but i remember one of my classes 2 years ago had audio recorded lectures (so not even video) and i learned so much better just because i could fast forward through stuff i understood and also could pause and process stuff rather than just sitting there confused or zoning out
 
Sammich117 said:
I've heard this from a ton of people - that it's not worth going to actual class if it's taped. How many people actually show up to classes?
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From the lectures I go to it seems there's still about 75% attendance. Although it may depend on the lecturer and lecture time since one of my friends told me only 20-30 (~15% of the class) people showed up for lecture on Monday.
 
DrYoda said:
I realized this afternoon that I must make a larger spectacle of myself than I realize. My goal for med school was to lay low... but it seems all kinds of obscure people know me. Grad students, PA students ect they all seem to know who I am:scared:.

Ninja fail.
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Hm...how exactly does one make a spectacle of oneself? Are you the kid who rides the unicycle to class every day or something?
 
bobsmith said:
Hm...how exactly does one make a spectacle of oneself? Are you the kid who rides the unicycle to class every day or something?
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Nah, maybe he has the 17" laptop monitor so everyone behind him can see he's on SDN as the yoda man.
 
bobsmith said:
Hm...how exactly does one make a spectacle of oneself? Are you the kid who rides the unicycle to class every day or something?
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I have no idea I only occasionaly show up and then I sit in the way back😕. I wouldn't characterize myself as the class clown. I sense conspiracy.
 
bobsmith said:
:laugh: I'm imagining grad students and PA students coming up to him saying, "Ah, DrYoda must you be"
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Voice over included.

DYoda, do you try some mind tricks to confuse them? "Yoda I am not." Then they walk away confunded.
 
rockaction said:
I didn't like how Biochem wasn't about principles or patterns...it was just straight up content to be memorized. Granted, a lot of medical school material will be like that, but I came into it expecting a class like Organic (which I loved).
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Ochem 3 is basically biochem: ochem style.

My biochem was more about doing kinematics problems, knowing general principles, etc than pure memorization (although obviously there was some of that too, but we didn't go over 50+ pathways, maybe 5-8).
 
DrYoda said:
I realized this afternoon that I must make a larger spectacle of myself than I realize. My goal for med school was to lay low... but it seems all kinds of obscure people know me. Grad students, PA students ect they all seem to know who I am:scared:.

Ninja fail.
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They know you through SDN or just through seeing them around?
 
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