Spring 2013 4.0 Competition

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I don't find it the least bit depressing, but that's just me. I agree distain for evolutionary pysch (which I personally find a crock of ****) but I haven't found any issues with bio...

 

[aspiringdoc134]

Going for my first 4.0 with newfound confidence and work ethic

Physics II w/lab (5 credits)
Philosophy II (3 credits)
Calculus II (4 credits)
Research in neuroscience lab (3 credits)
Christian theology II (3 credits)

In addition, I'll be prepping for the April MCAT (about halfway thru content review thus far) and volunteering around 3-4 hours per week. Also, im trying to win the NCAA intramural flag football league at my school after getting eliminated in the semis last semester on a heartbreaking pick...back with a vengeance this semester

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

I don't find it the least bit depressing, but that's just me. I agree distain for evolutionary pysch (which I personally find a crock of ****) but I haven't found any issues with bio...

So classes that basically spend the majority of the time describing that women are mistreated, raped, battered, abused, and give absolutely no solution to the problem are not depressing to you? I mean there's no empowerment in these classes, it's more mortifying than anything.

Eh, I feel like a lot of feminists disdain it because they don't really understand it or claim that it is a system that validates patriarchy or genocide. I personally believe it explains a lot of phenomena a lot better than many other theoretical backgrounds. But then again, evolutionary psychology is more than parental investment, there is a lot more to it. Which is why evolutionary psychology is a paradigm a lot of anthropologists adhere to.
That being said, I tend to dislike feminist theory because it is highly dismissive of anthropology and biology when it goes against it. Very few feminist theorist spend time in the field studying why gender roles arose that way and are more interested in blanketly generalizing that gender is completely socially learned and that there's no reason we should look towards the bioanthroplogical roots of why these behavioral systems arose and whether or not they were in fact superficial or advantageous.

But that's my limited experience with feminist theory. I personally think it at many points simply contradicts itself.

 

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Idk what kinda feminist theory classes u hav taken dear but this one is about lady gaga and the post modern...so yeah I don't really see where u are coming from :/ that kinda stuff is usually covered in gender studies 101...fem theory is about applications of feminism and using it as a critical lense to talk about pop culture..

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

Idk what kinda feminist theory classes u hav taken dear but this one is about lady gaga and the post modern...so yeah I don't really see where u are coming from :/ that kinda stuff is usually covered in gender studies 101...fem theory is about applications of feminism and using it as a critical lense to talk about pop culture..

Hmm, well I've only taken Women's psych, and that class is pretty much 100% about how women are abused. So I somewhat assume all women's studies classes are like that.

 

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No... I mean I understand how womens pysch cud have that as part of the coursework but feminist studies is all feminism in an academic sense...so not really havving anything to do with rape or abuse

 

[NontradCA]

So feminism is a theory which implies that all social, political, economic discourse is based on power and domination over women. Abuse is just one aspect, where feminist theory would argue that the focus should be on gender.

 

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Not exactly... feminist theory looks at subordination of women and assumes that most women are in asubordinate position but in no way asumes it is the only power structure at play in the world. And those systems(political, economic, etc) are not based on patriarchy and the oppression of women- they are a part of those systems but its not the basis for them.

I'm not sure I understand what ur point is about abuse.

 

[NontradCA]

Not exactly... feminist theory looks at subordination of women and assumes that most women are in asubordinate position but in no way asumes it is the only power structure at play in the world. And those systems(political, economic, etc) are not based on patriarchy and the oppression of women- they are a part of those systems but its not the basis for them.

I'm not sure I understand what ur point is about abuse.

Um they absolutely think that those systems are based on patriarchy and my point on abuse is that feminist minimize female abusers.

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

No... I mean I understand how womens pysch cud have that as part of the coursework but feminist studies is all feminism in an academic sense...so not really havving anything to do with rape or abuse

It was actually more like 99% of the class. It was depressing, from rape, to abuse, to human trafficking. There were no sunny topics in that class.

 

[docmayer]

Sweet 4.0'd first semester!

 

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Um they absolutely think that those systems are based on patriarchy and my point on abuse is that feminist minimize female abusers.

As a feminist I completely disagree with you.

 

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It was actually more like 99% of the class. It was depressing, from rape, to abuse, to human trafficking. There were no sunny topics in that class.

I'm sorry you had a rather depressing experience. I have a good deal of respect for u here as a poster and I hope u don't. Base your entire opinion about women and gender studies on that one class which to me seems only tangentially related to the field.

 

[NontradCA]

As a feminist I completely disagree with you.

Well as a Sociology major who has already taken the 3 classes on Women's Studies, I know you're wrong.

But if you wanna talk further on this let's pm instead of derailing this thread.

 

[Cuongoff]

Neuroanatomy (3)
Inorganic Chem + Lab (4)
Film Studies (ugh) (3)

Research, conferences, scribing, 2 presidencies, and interviews.

I probably won't get a 4.0 seeing as it's my last semester.

 

[StudentofHonors]

Awesome thread! I'm definitely down for the challenge!

I am taking:

Biology 1 (6 crds)
OChem 2 (3 crds)
Ochem Lab (4 crds)
Public Health course (2 crds)
Research (2 crds - ten hours/week)
I will also be volunteering 4 hrs/week, and in some student groups!

Good luck to everyone and leggoo!!

 

[Hopefull22]

I'm down! I need some outside pressure to do well this semester. My classes:

Organic 2 (3 cred)
Protein structure and function (3 credits)
Contemplative thought (1 cred)
Evolutionary theory (3 cred)
Religions of the world (3 cred)
Biology research (2 cred)

This is the first semester I'm taking less than 19 credits, so I think I'll finally have time to get that 4.0! Good luck everyone!

 

[NontradCA]

Did anybody take any classes over winter break? What a terrible amount of work.

 

[HeronsBeak]

First 4.0 in college last semester but never joined the thread. Here's to another one this spring!

MicroBio w/ lab-5 credits
Colloquial Arabic- 2 credits
Orgo 1- 3 credits
Immunology- 3 credits
Environmental Global Health- 3 credits

Total 16 credits
5-8hrs volunteering/week
co-chairing premed org

Good luck everyone!(And to the person asking if we are all 2018 prospectives I can affirm that I am at least.)

 

[Wallace12]

I'll join in on this, I ended up with a 3.5 last semester 🙁

Ochem 2 - 3hrs
Bio: evolution, ecology, and diversity (retake)- 4hrs
Principles of health and disease- 3hrs
Physics 2 lab- 1hr
Microbiology- 3hrs
Individual fitness- 1hr

Studying for the MCAT after spring break...

 

[sausalito]

I wonder why I didn't see this thread. I posted on the one in allo and was wishing there was one for osteo lol. Hope I don't get in trouble for posting here too *looks around*

Semester started at university 1/29 (1/23 at cc):

The unit cap for Cali SU's is now 16 units (at my school anyway), so I couldn't take Bio or Physics at uni this semester like I'd wished. Luckily I was accepted off the bio waitlist at a local cc. So, here it is:

French Conversation - 3 units
French Translation - 3 units
French Civilization - 3 units
Gen Chem 1 w/ lab - 5 units

Gen Bio 1 w/ lab - 5 units

19 total.

EC's:
Working part-time
Tutor Algebra

Goals this semester:
Find another volunteering position (I had to drop volunteering in the ICU because I couldn't find another shift that works with my school schedule)
Find DOs to shadow for summer
Exercising would be nice.
Oh, and of course, 4.0 😀