oceantheorem: (gg L geek moment)
oceantheorem ([personal profile] oceantheorem) wrote2007-04-07 09:07 pm
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I'm bad at focusing.

I went back through my Bio 115 (Advanced Eukaryotic Molecular Biology) notes looking for some info on double-stranded break repair for a classmate in my current Advanced Eukaryotic Molecular Biology class (ahhh, the glories of taking the same class twice at different universities... the second university thinks you're so smart...), and I found a review sheet with a bunch of hilarious quotes on it.

Here are some of them, from March of 2005 straight to you:

"If you use the yeast system for aging, you have to ask yourself, what does an old yeast look like anyway? Even though I sort of scoff at old yeast I think you have to take them seriously." --prof

"...where there's lots of cleavage, that's naked DNA. ...120 naked nucleotides flapping in the breeze..." --prof

"Are we more complex than a fly or a worm? Or are we just bigger? I think about that a lot. I think what really separates us, besides the fact that flies can't get tattoos, is our nervous system." --prof

"Mice are fucked up. We mutated the shit out of them." --classmate

"It's that part of the chromosome where microtubules are gonna reach out and touch it." --prof

"If you want to go from some boring little yeast into some clever little fruit fly..." --prof (gee, I wonder what his model organism was?)

"If you inject it into a bunny rabbit..." --prof

"Although, then it kills the cell, so that's not very nice at all." --prof

"homologous recombination machinery feels up the DNA and repairs it" --my personal notes, scrawled in a margin. And yes, this is how I remember everything. You should hear my analogy for nuclear export. It involves bouncers.

And my personal favorite:
"God arranged it this way so I could put it on your test." --prof


We are 46% retrovirus.

[identity profile] wm-james.livejournal.com 2007-04-08 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
Hello. [livejournal.com profile] in_a_space passed on your username. I'm an undergrad at Yale, hoping to transfer to Stanford next year (originally from the Bay Area). Okay if I add you?

[identity profile] oceantheorem.livejournal.com 2007-04-08 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
Yay!
How are you? I feel like I haven't heard from you in a while...
Of course, that's probably because my life is on hold while I write this grant, but still.

[identity profile] either-or.livejournal.com 2007-04-08 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
eh...i'm okay. trying to figure out how to salvage my academic existence in some bearable manner.

[identity profile] oceantheorem.livejournal.com 2007-04-08 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
*hugs* It's gonna be okay!!

=D

[identity profile] either-or.livejournal.com 2007-04-08 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
yeah...it will. i feel pretty capable - i just need to find something to do with it.

Re: =D

[identity profile] oceantheorem.livejournal.com 2007-04-08 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
I have faith. I think you're gonna do something awesome.

[identity profile] wm-james.livejournal.com 2007-04-08 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
Wonderful!