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Like the mid-term, the BioChem final is not as hard as it should be. It’s slightly more challenging I suppose, with wordier problems, but then again, there wasn’t a lot of material covered since the midterm. So, let’s just party down with a video to celebrate the end of EXCEL BioChem!

Today was the last EXCEL lecture on Biochemistry! Horrah! Nothing too difficult, just a brief overview on signal transduction and three different pathways taken with epinephrine, insulin, and epidermal growth factor (EGF).
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It was a hot day… 95 during hottest hour! Boston is supposed to be cool year round, what’s happening?! In class, we did citric acid cycle review, then went into lipid metabolism.
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Dr Park said we all did very well on the test. But just a moment ago, I looked over at what we’ll be studying over at Drew’s computer, and it’s not going to be so easy.
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Summary:
We went over the citric acid cycle today… and that’s it. Pyruvate > Acetyl CoA + Oxaloacetate [...]

Midterm exam today. It wasn’t very hard at all – even if it’s fake, it’s too easy.

Time really flew by today. I didn’t pay much attention since I was fiddling with DNS settings for the domain change abouts. I’m gonna get a new domain! Maybe something better than rodtv.com ~! So… we went back over glycolysis, then went into gluconeogenesis! Nothing to id really
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Ah, the same o stuff… getting it down to a routine now.
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Summary:
Started off with discussion about various types of carbs, then what they can bind to in regards to proteins and each other. Then we went into glycolysis. Pretty simple stuff and review from DAT, BioChem, even general biology!

Arizona Ice Tea helped me stay awake I think.
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Summary:
Recall Michaelis Menten equation, and memorize all amino acids! That’s all.

8 am sure was tough to deal this morning. Went to bed at 1, accidentally set the alarm for 4:30 — I felt as if I got enough sleep though, too bad I just couldn’t stay awake for the class. Maybe it’s because most of the material today was review from Genetics ~!
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Taught by Dr Park
The information taught might be somewhat redundant from undergrad classes, so far the depth isn’t anything we haven’t covered in prior – so not bad at all.
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Summary:
Went briefly over the component of a mammalian cell, then some very basic general chemistry (acid and bases, bonds and force of attraction, hydrophobicity), and [...]