another life blog

Today, Ms Thomas took over for Dr Von Kalm and boy, she really went over the stuff quick! I think she wrongly assumed that we know this stuff already and just zoomed past everything! I don’t quite understand any of it still, but meh, whatever.
Lecture Notes
Summary:
We went over the prokaryotic transcription today. [...]

I don’t know the details about the Schiavo’s case, but as I scan over the article on CNN, I can’t help but wonder — “why the hell didn’t they just cut her O2 supply?! why did they have to starve the poor lady to death?!”
It’s cruel and stupid! If I’m gonna die, I’d [...]

What lecture? Dr Brophy skipped out again. We turned in the crossword puzzles and the red quizzes. That’s about it.

How much about enzymes do I need to know? Apparently, everything! Well, maybe not everything, but more than enough. Took pretty crappy notes today. Oh well!
Lecture Notes
Summary:
4 types of enzymes (though Dr Cunningham only says there’re 3… repeatedly). The competitive competes against the inhibitors for the active site. The [...]

Wow, this was a really long test! Or is it because I’m just not ready for it like I was for the last two? I know I missed some questions, and I know I didn’t do very well. *sighs* If only if I wasn’t so sickly.

Don’t continue if you do not want to read about fecal matters.

It’s always nice when different classes overlap in information and you know the material already. DNA translation and transcription was covered pretty good in general biology, so it’s really easy to fall asleep in the class. We’re now going into sick cell anemia, and boy, we already covered it to enough depth in [...]

I closed on the house on Friday, May 25th, 2005. On saturday, Darlene and I went to pick out a bed, a desk, and some blinds for the new house. I think the new bed is too soft… my back is hurting like mad today, even after 10 hours of sleep, I [...]

Lecture the entire class! I’m surprised. Dr Brophy told some good stories about his father-in-law and the various brain problems. People kept falling asleep, I looking forward to him tossing water on people =)
Lecture Notes
Summary:
Today we first talked about mini stroke and stroke. Then many different parts of the brain and [...]

Simple algebra. Right. Cool story about exploding chemical today. Something less than half an aspirin, took out an entire room. Very cool =)
Lecture Notes
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Today we continued where we left off with the Michaelis-Menten equation and the various interpretation of the data. I think I can grasp the concept of plugging [...]

We finished up chapter 22 today and went over a couple of homework problems. Test is on Wednesday, will probably be pretty hard since I’ve been slacking pretty badly. Did 9 hours of organic homework last night to review, but still failed. I suck.
Lecture Notes
Summary:
Haloform, which would convert methyl group next to [...]

When I don’t want to waste away hours playing video games, I usually waste away hours, reading news on Yahoo or Google. Today, I discovered something that changes the positive remark that I made about Wendy completely!
Apparently, a lady found a processed finger in her chili, this news article. This isn’t what I [...]

I’m not sure if I first watched Gunbuster on VHS or AVI, but it left a memorable impression. I remembering crying at the ending when the hot-blooded girls Noriko and Kazumi return to the Earth and the whole planet is waiting for them after thousands of years.
GunBuster relies heavily on theories of relativity and [...]

Today, the madness began. It was all nice and peachy before, but all of the sudden, Dr Cunningham starts throwing numbers at us! Sure — this is just simple algebraic manipulation, but what kind of insanity is it?! How are we supposed to know what to assume and etc unless we memorize [...]

So I haven’t scanned the notes for Chapter 22 yet. See how everything is a downward spiral? Soon as I start slacking (skipping on the day of the biochem test), I start to fudge everything. Ah, I’m stupid like that. At least I still come to class =) That’s a [...]