Grades. Obligatory. Shoot me.
My grade in BIOL 220 left something to be desired, but that really isn't much of a surprise given how much I feel like my understanding of physiology could be diagramatically represented as a slab of Swiss cheese. Honestly, they tried to cover far too much in one five-credit introductory level course. [Miracle happens here] just doesn't quite do it for me, and they did a much better job of avoiding that issue in the first two courses in the sequence. I suppose that the main issue for me is that when you're working with differentiated cells and you have to know so many specific proteins, steroid hormones, transmission methods, and the like, it just gets overwhelming. Not to mention that I was late to lecture almost every day because of OCEAN 210 professor Luanne Thompson going over her allotted time...
That said, I definitely predicted my BIOL 220 grade to within 0.1 of the grade I was assigned. I seem to be good at having a gut feeling for the grades I've received in biology department courses, and I must say that I agree with every grade they've given me. It's not like the physics and chemistry grades that I've received so far and that I think are an entire crapshoot. I mean, seriously. I thought I'd tanked PHYS 121 much, much worse than I actually did. I swear I'm not retaining any knowledge from that class but I still ended up with a B.
In spite of my BIOL 220 performance that doesn't quite hold up to my own standards, I still have a plenty high enough biology GPA in the intro sequence and elsewhere in the department to go for departmental honors and Tribeta if I so desire. Speaking of Tribeta, their applications are due soon. Shiat.
BIOL 354 would have been better had I actually allowed myself enough time to do a bang-up job on my final paper. I'm not about to complain about an A [albeit a low one] in a 300-level biology course, but I still have to say that I think I left something on the table there.
OCEAN 210 is still out. We'll see what happens when those finals are graded.
That said, I definitely predicted my BIOL 220 grade to within 0.1 of the grade I was assigned. I seem to be good at having a gut feeling for the grades I've received in biology department courses, and I must say that I agree with every grade they've given me. It's not like the physics and chemistry grades that I've received so far and that I think are an entire crapshoot. I mean, seriously. I thought I'd tanked PHYS 121 much, much worse than I actually did. I swear I'm not retaining any knowledge from that class but I still ended up with a B.
In spite of my BIOL 220 performance that doesn't quite hold up to my own standards, I still have a plenty high enough biology GPA in the intro sequence and elsewhere in the department to go for departmental honors and Tribeta if I so desire. Speaking of Tribeta, their applications are due soon. Shiat.
BIOL 354 would have been better had I actually allowed myself enough time to do a bang-up job on my final paper. I'm not about to complain about an A [albeit a low one] in a 300-level biology course, but I still have to say that I think I left something on the table there.
OCEAN 210 is still out. We'll see what happens when those finals are graded.