Done with classes; 84% in one class and 89.2% in the other. With an 89.5% cutoff for A- in the second class, I am less content with my B's than I might otherwise be ( Read more... )

Me: ...and analytical chem can DIE IN A FIRE. An uncalibrated fire!
Roommate Number Three: Why do you always study at the dining room table?
Me: You've seen my tiny computer desk. With that in mind, would you say I'm taking up 60% of this generous table, or 80%?
- Socratic dialogues of 2011


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Didn't I switch from a chemistry major to biology to avoid exactly the sort of spectrophotometric blah blah blah "rocks fall hemolysis rises" I'm slogging through today ( Read more... )

If I ever taught immunology, I'd teach it as Genetic Defects of the Immune System. Ninety minutes of immune system, maybe broken up a bit with 30-45 minutes of student presentation(s), and 30 minutes of applications, or And Then You Die (without a bone marrow transplant).

I'm just saying.

Ha ha ha, a Gram negative bacteria has LITTLE PEP(...tidoglycan). Get it? Get it?

Oh, Svedberg. Only a biologist could make 30 + 50 equal 70.

Whoever decided to name staff-straight bacteria streptococci and grape-clustering prokaryotes staphylococci is on my anti-mnemonic hit list ( Read more... )

Back from my cousin's wedding! She is happily hitched, I happily saw my family, I had a window for every leg of the trip, and my flight home picked up a tailwind, to my delirious joy. The approach was southeast-to-northwest over the Bay, letting me revel in landmarks: the San Mateo bridge, the Bay Bridge, Sutro tower, the Transamerica pyramid and ( Read more... )

First, I survived volunteering for Oakland Pride. The biggest incident I dealt with all day was Roommate Number Three's long distance text message, "what do you do for multiple wasp stings?" Many sighs of relief all around ( Read more... )

"Blah blah blah biochemistry (or whatever is at hand ( Read more... )

Seven geeky icons, with (what a surprise!) a biology/biochemistry bent. Please comment and credit if you take. Feedback always appreciated. 3 and 4 are from one of my non-lj friends; 1 and 5 from the science jokes website.

Hope you enjoy!

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Call me a bitter undergrad, but everyone's about to get the pedagogy lecture. (We know I've jumped the shark because I said "pedagogy" with a straight face.)

First: if you are writing on a blackboard, stop talking.

Second: if it's important, put it on the blackboard. Like this: "important term: means this." Corollary: no tangent should be longer ( Read more... )