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It's a intro genetics class. This stuff hasn't changed that much in the last ten years. (Lac operon and all the other classic experiments were done in the 60s and 70s, come on.) I didn't come to MIT to teach myself about yeast tetrad analysis by googling up the sense-making, well-written discussions of the subject from other colleges because the ( Read more... )

now I am become 20.110, destroyer of souls

(ok, they say we're at the hardest part about now, and I can't decide whether or not to believe that. because on one hand, it's fucking hard. on the other hand, I don't see it getting easier.)

We've got a brain anatomy quiz on Wednesday. I have to hand it to the 9.01 staff, they made it very clear exactly what would be on it (and it does NOT include the cranial arteries, arkh be praised ( Read more... )

Aargh, finding out I put the wrong answer on a test because I didn't think of an obvious thing.

Aargh, nonlinear library organization schemes.

Aargh, lecturers that can't listen to student questions, and can't conceive of presenting the material a different way, and teach like recitation instructorsAargh, BookEx ( Read more... )

Damn it. I got a sore throat ( Read more... )

20.110 and 9.07 conflict. (MWF10 and MW9.30-11) respectively.

What do now?

Take both anyway?
Flip out and talk to advisor?
Drop 9.07, thereby deciding to be course 20?
Drop 20.110, thereby either deciding to be course 9 or being unable to apply for 20 until end of spring term?
Drop both and be course 7?

(Obligatory apology for the long hiatus. Pointful excuses do not exist.)

So I finally went and had an eye exam today. Long overdue. My eyes have really gotten worse -- worse enough that I noticed my glasses becoming less and less effective ( Read more... )

Ok, that paper took a lot longer than it had any right to.

...Although I am moderately proud of the final product. I wasn't expecting to be, given that the class is such bullshit.

*debates: shower and then collapse, or collapse and shower later?*

It really bothers me that Facebook is so much in the habit of introducing new features -- and making them default-on, or even mandatory -- without pre-announcing them to users first. Why on earth do they think there's a fair number of protest groups for every single new thing they introduce? (And why do they ignore the groups who are in favor of ( Read more... )