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Started by Mesozoic Mister Nigel, September 05, 2014, 05:51:06 PM

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Mesozoic Mister Nigel

"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Nephew Twiddleton

Maximum amount of credits this semester. Two days in and I'm wondering how crushing the workload will end up being. But at least this semester there's no more math courses, and it's largely stuff that's directly relevant to what I'm aiming to do from here on out.

Evolution, and lab
Bioinformatics and lab
Chemical Principles II and lab
Black American Music (which, funny enough, an old lab partner from BHCC is in)

Labs are considered separate co-requisites at UMass, so I'm technically taking 7 classes.

Professors for Chemistry lecture and BAM are professors I had last semester (for Chemistry and World Music).

Also, I gotta do finishing touches on my resume and gimme an internship essay. For once, I'm glad I put it off a little. I'm now considering changing my third choice to working under my Bioinformatics professor.
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Mesozoic Mister Nigel

That is a hell of a load.

The labs at PSU are mostly 2 credits, but for some reason they are almost always as much homework as a full 4-credit lecture class. The only lab I'm taking this term is Physics, and every lab is a nightmare clusterfuck of outdated instructions and malfunctioning equipment. My labmates, who are all lovely people, seem mightily confused and appear to entirely rely on me to do the data analysis, which is alarming because it's been years since my last math class and I never even took trig.

This term I'm taking Behavioral Endocrinology, Neurophysiology, Physics, and a McNair seminar class which is essentially a repeat of the Honors thesis class I took last term. I don't actually have to go to that one, and assignments are functionally just editing my assignments from last term and turning those in, so really it's like I'm only taking three classes plus the lab, and also 2 credits of research.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Mesozoic Mister Nigel

OH AND NEXT TERM

NEXT TERM

I am only taking two lectures, two labs, and one seminar class for McNair. And then I'm DONE with undergrad lectures except for the thesis support class over the summer. I'm also taking trig online, because if I'm going to need calculus for my grad program I'd better get warmed up.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Freeky

GOOD LUCK ALL YOUSE SPAGS WITH THE SCHOOLING AND THINGS

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

THANK YOU!

The Spring schedule came out, and of course biochemistry clashes with the recombinant DNA techniques lab. And technically I'm supposed to have taken a full year of Ochem before taking biochemistry, but I've only taken the first class.

According to the WSU graduate handbook, students admitted to the neuroscience graduate program are expected to have had biochemistry, or to take it in their first year of grad school. However, I am a molecular biology major, so I've had molecular and cell biology, which they may consider equivalent. Not only that, but WSU doesn't offer biochemistry. Furthermore, I think that recombinant DNA techniques will be WAY more practically useful in the lab I want to do my grad work in than biochemistry.

I'm seriously thinking about just going for it, and taking Earthquakes and Volcanoes to make up my last three "other science" credits.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Mesozoic Mister Nigel

I'm definitely taking biochemistry, so next term is biochem, recombinant DNA theory, cell bio lab, and micro lab. And that's it for the degree, after that all I need to do is write my thesis and get ready for grad school.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Freeky

Recombinant DNA theory sounds like something you need for to be a mad scientist.  And therefore awesome.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: Choppas an' Sluggas on February 11, 2016, 08:54:20 PM
Recombinant DNA theory sounds like something you need for to be a mad scientist.  And therefore awesome.

Yes! I will need it for some of the stem cell therapy experiments that I want to do.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Freeky

Every time I hear of your plans for the future and what all you are studying, it blows my mind.  You are one of the coolest people I know.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: Choppas an' Sluggas on February 18, 2016, 01:40:24 AM
Every time I hear of your plans for the future and what all you are studying, it blows my mind.  You are one of the coolest people I know.

Damn, thanks! :)
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Well, it's technically almost a month out from the start of Fall term, but since I'm already in the lab anyway my advisor has started me already. We have five litters of the most adorable baby noodles, which I have been feeding, and we spent yesterday setting up for the snakes we're bringing back from Manitoba in a couple of weeks. Which means I am going to Manitoba, yayyyy!

Manitoba road trip. A van full of scientists and snakes driving across the country. Yep. The stuff dreams are made of.

I am doing my graduate work on deiodinase 2 and deiodinase 3, which is gonna be awesome given that I don't know what they are or do.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Oh and I can't find my passport anywhere. :(
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Suu

My first module for my professional certificate program starts tomorrow. It's an online course offered through Cal State Long Beach, and its for collection management and care of costume and textiles in a museum setting. Conservation, preservation, etc. History is over, now I get to learn the SCIENCE. I find it generally hilarious, and yet not at all surprising, to become a specialist in a museum field takes another year or so of extra work on top of a graduate degree. Because I haven't spent enough money yet.  :roll:
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Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: SuuCal on September 02, 2016, 01:28:46 AM
My first module for my professional certificate program starts tomorrow. It's an online course offered through Cal State Long Beach, and its for collection management and care of costume and textiles in a museum setting. Conservation, preservation, etc. History is over, now I get to learn the SCIENCE. I find it generally hilarious, and yet not at all surprising, to become a specialist in a museum field takes another year or so of extra work on top of a graduate degree. Because I haven't spent enough money yet.  :roll:

Is that like a post-doc fellowship sort of thing?
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."