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[19 May 2008|10:16pm] |
It's the night before my first actual exam and I don't know anything. It's the most material I've had to study ever in my life (for one class). I have to know the details of DNA replication, transcription, translation, the cell cycle, the basics of neurophysics, quorum sensing, bacteria, viruses, cancer, the adaptive immune system, the innate immune system, and tons of methods and experiments used to figure all of that stuff out.
The hard part isn't understanding the biological processes. The hard part is integrating the material together with the experimental methods. Very little of our tests asks us to regurgitate info. Most of it is giving us hypothetical situations and making us design our own experiments to figure out a novel problem. Essentially, you have to REALLY understand your stuff. you also have to memorize all of the proteins involved in every process, because they always ask you to list the fucking proteins. There are about 3 billion, and all of them are something like "RB" or "E2F" or "Ras" or "Rag" or C3B" or "CDK" and you get the idea.
Don't get me wrong, I love how it's taught and the emphasis on really understanding how things work and such, but it's just hard to get a good grade.
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