I've been digging around for various books and things, particularly my Gen Bio II lab journal. Because a lot of the microbes we need to identify for our first lab practical are ones we had to do in that class as well, and I knew I had good notes on how to tell them apart. (Clearly, along with all the time spent on comparative taxonomy systems, ( Read more... )

Grades posted last night. I didn't think they'd be up yet, so I hadn't checked until now, and that only because Patsfan said something ( Read more... )

And that particular campus is out forever, actually. They weren't even waiting around for exams to be done, they were actually moving the lab while we were testing. That can't have been good for the folks that get exam anxiety ( Read more... )

Writing this essay on the challenges of terrestrial versus aquatic animal life and the evolutionary solutions to them, I was going round in circles trying to find one more. I knew it had to be staring me in the face. The usual "take breaks and do unrelated stuff" was not helping, so I lay down, set the alarm for two hours later (and slept for ( Read more... )

And now we also have an essay for bio that will be part of the exam, because we've run out of time to cover chapter 31. So we get to write an essay on it instead. If this were the only class I was taking, I wouldn't mind ( Read more... )

Extra credit essay - as done as it's likely to get ( Read more... )

Psych discussion contributions posted - check
Lab practical exam taken - check
Lab journal turned in - check
sshg_exchange fic turned in - check

::stifles the urge to go back and play with the fic some more::

Now everything's all about the psych class until Monday. Well, with breaks for visits with bluedolfyn (yay! -- but you need to call me so I know when to be where ( Read more... )

Pulled out the original list of animals. In very few cases do we need to know the formal genus and species names. Either she has taken pity on us because of the end-of-semester cramming of three kingdoms into six weeks or there will be other sneaky stuff on this test, because I'm pretty sure we can all identify a garden spider without studying, ( Read more... )

( Cut for length and boringness. But bluedolfyn has to read it anyway. )

Wheeeeeee ( Read more... )