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Class Summary
Jan. 17th, 2007 08:41 pm*sigh* I was going to go to a bunch more classes, but I slept through a couple of them this morning; I have no idea why. Sometimes I just get ridiculously tired, and today turned out to be one of those days. Putting one foot in front of the other seemed to take so much energy....
Yesterday was fantastic, though. I went to three classes. The first was a systems cell bio course, which looked interesting but was also heavy on the histology. And histology is great and all, but I don't think I could take an entire course based on looking at slides of tissues. I'm sorry, I just don't think my attention span is that long. Okay, I KNOW my attention span isn't that long. I probably couldn't even handle an entire quarter of histology before I got sick of it, and semesters are like twice as long.
Anyway. The second class I went to was Advanced Eukaryotic Molecular Biology, and seems like some of the material will be similar to the undergrad class of the same name I took at UCSC. However, this one is offered by the biochem department (UCSC's was offered by MCB) and is aimed at graduate students, so there's a big emphasis on reading primary literature. I know that some of those papers will be absolutely painful to read--I mean, NO ONE wants to read crystallography papers, not even crystallographers--but the subject matter sounds captivating, and might even go into more depth than I've covered before. The class is also largely concerned with regulation and feedback, and frankly, that makes me super excited in a really nerdy way.
The third class yesterday was the pseudo-required Methods course. I can get out of it if I want to, because I took pchem. However, it's not really a pchem course; it's a methods course, which I've never had before. And since it's required, all the other first-years are in it, and it might actually be detrimental to my social life for me to miss out on a first-year bonding course. I know that's a weird reason to take a class, but I can't get a hold of my mom to ask her opinion, so this is my slant on it. I'll probably take the class.
Today I was supposed to go to Cell and Molecular Physiology, which focuses on the transport of molecules across membranes. That might have been interesting, but I probably would not have taken it. The same goes for Macromolecular Interactions and Dynamic Properties, which I also slept through. That one was a biochem course and would have focused on the molecular basis of interactions such as DNA binding recognition motifs in proteins. Alas. There are more semesters in my future.
I made it to the RNA seminar today. I'll probably take that. It's taught primarily by S. Altman, a Nobel Laureate, and meets once a week to discuss two contemporary papers on RNA assigned the week before. It sounds insanely rigorous and absolutely fascinating. It will probably kill me. I have my two H's, though, so I needn't worry about grades this semester. So I'll probably take it and brave my academic death.
On Monday a Pathology of Cancer class starts. Unfortunately it meets at the same time on Wednesday as the RNA seminar, so I probably won't be able to take it. But I'll go to the first meeting and see how it goes.
Anyway. S'all for now.
I'm knitting a kitty.
Yesterday was fantastic, though. I went to three classes. The first was a systems cell bio course, which looked interesting but was also heavy on the histology. And histology is great and all, but I don't think I could take an entire course based on looking at slides of tissues. I'm sorry, I just don't think my attention span is that long. Okay, I KNOW my attention span isn't that long. I probably couldn't even handle an entire quarter of histology before I got sick of it, and semesters are like twice as long.
Anyway. The second class I went to was Advanced Eukaryotic Molecular Biology, and seems like some of the material will be similar to the undergrad class of the same name I took at UCSC. However, this one is offered by the biochem department (UCSC's was offered by MCB) and is aimed at graduate students, so there's a big emphasis on reading primary literature. I know that some of those papers will be absolutely painful to read--I mean, NO ONE wants to read crystallography papers, not even crystallographers--but the subject matter sounds captivating, and might even go into more depth than I've covered before. The class is also largely concerned with regulation and feedback, and frankly, that makes me super excited in a really nerdy way.
The third class yesterday was the pseudo-required Methods course. I can get out of it if I want to, because I took pchem. However, it's not really a pchem course; it's a methods course, which I've never had before. And since it's required, all the other first-years are in it, and it might actually be detrimental to my social life for me to miss out on a first-year bonding course. I know that's a weird reason to take a class, but I can't get a hold of my mom to ask her opinion, so this is my slant on it. I'll probably take the class.
Today I was supposed to go to Cell and Molecular Physiology, which focuses on the transport of molecules across membranes. That might have been interesting, but I probably would not have taken it. The same goes for Macromolecular Interactions and Dynamic Properties, which I also slept through. That one was a biochem course and would have focused on the molecular basis of interactions such as DNA binding recognition motifs in proteins. Alas. There are more semesters in my future.
I made it to the RNA seminar today. I'll probably take that. It's taught primarily by S. Altman, a Nobel Laureate, and meets once a week to discuss two contemporary papers on RNA assigned the week before. It sounds insanely rigorous and absolutely fascinating. It will probably kill me. I have my two H's, though, so I needn't worry about grades this semester. So I'll probably take it and brave my academic death.
On Monday a Pathology of Cancer class starts. Unfortunately it meets at the same time on Wednesday as the RNA seminar, so I probably won't be able to take it. But I'll go to the first meeting and see how it goes.
Anyway. S'all for now.
I'm knitting a kitty.
