I'm a biiiiiiiiiiiig science nerd!! i LOVE science--all kinds (thankfully some schools don't consider physics to be one
). My favorite science classes from undergrad include Molecular and Cell Biology, Molecular Neurobiochemistry, Organic Chemistry, and Advanced Physiology. I enjoy rewriting my notes for these awesome science classes and color-coding them. I even saved more than half of my hot German professor's lectures on Cell Biology last semester (for both his hot accent and the cool content
. I can take the "easier" version of physiology at my school for my major but I love to learn science so I am taking the "harder" version (and praying I pass
)When I am bored, I sometimes make huge drawings of some particular aspects of cell biology (e.g. the mitochondrinal signaling pathway). I sometimes attend multiple discussion sections for my science classes to learn more.
For O-chem, I enjoyed doing all the problems in my Vollhardt's Organic Chemistry textbook that I even bought another ochem book (Loudon's Organic Chemistry) that the upper division o-chem students here at Berkeley use so I could do more ochem--I even bought the solutions manual so I now have 4 ochem books sitting on my bookshelf. At Berkeley, we have something called "study groups" that are lead by students who have taken the course and each group meets 4 hours a week and I went to 2 study groups for ochem (so 8 hours/week) because I couldn't get enough of my love
In addition to that, I did most of the problems offered by Harvard's O-chem department and found it to be thoroughly satisfying. This semester, I am auditing Molecular Immunology at my school to prepare myself for immunology in pharmacy school. Because I greatly despise paperback books and demand that all my science books be hardcovers, I refused to buy the immuno textbook at Berkeley. Instead, I bought the Molecular Immunology textbook written by a USC pharmacy professor and used by USC pharmacy students and enjoy reading it in my spare time, especially when I am in the kitchen cooking. During finals week of Spring 2004, I lived at the library for about a week (I went home to shower and eat, of course). In the yr 2004, I took over 50 semester units and also worked. I find that my grades are better when I take more units than when I take the minimum at my school (13). In preparation for my interviews, I went thru a ****load of questions (all of the ones in the interview feedback section) (oneday_9 and lexian can testify, haha). In my spare time, I enjoy watching Court TV's Forensic Files--shhhh, but it can be so addicting that I can watch it from 6PM till 4AM
Is that nerdy enough?
[EDIT]: at the place where i currently work part-time, I have to photocopy all these science journals and it always takes me forever to photocopy b/c I take time to stop and skim some of the very interesting articles (thankfully my boss hasn't caught me yet
shhhh ). I've considered subscribing to magazines like EID (emerging infectious diseases) but am going to wait until pharmacy school begins to see if there are any discounts for pharmacy students