Posted by alexandra_k on November 3, 2014, at 19:30:45
In reply to Re: one down, posted by alexandra_k on October 31, 2014, at 20:34:49
so i discovered that they expect me to have a B average to transfer into health science next year. at which point i discovered, like, 5 typos on that webpage. sniff. i suppose that is fair. i feel... somewhat nervous... i wish they would take course selection into account... still... i should get a B+ or better out of animal biology, i reckon. And i am keeping my fingers crossed for some kind of B out of physics... i would have thought it impossible before the exam, but now i do have some kind of hope... and i guess... i'll just have to hope for the best with respect to law. try my best to write my exam like... like i really want to get into law school. which is, of course, what most of the others will be doing... trying to impress the external examiner with all the knowledge they have from their OTHER law class this semester. sigh. nothing much i can do about that.
the A&P book is making me really very happy indeed. it is succinct. not many wasted words / diagrams. it is very logical in its progression. i like the way it introduces words in bold with a pronounciation guide and a little blurb about where the term came from. i like the beautiful pictures... the glossy paper... it really is a delight to read.
campbell's biology... getting over it, i am. it goes into a lot more detail about cell processes, in particular. a bit too high level for me at the moment, i think.
the A&P book... and the courseguide notes that i have for one of the classes next year... are reminding me of what i loved about some of my psychology classes... of what really stayed with me over the years as something that i missed... the idea of a manageable chunk of content. 3 things. or 5 things. or maybe 7 things. then you learn them so you can repeat them. maybe you describe them, too. or describe how one leads to the next. and then there might be 3 parts to the first thing and 4 parts to the second... and there is a logical accumulation like that.
i get a lot of satisfaction from learning a managable chunk of content. and i know that it is preparation for the getting to think ABOUT the content that you get to do once you've got the content in there... i enjoy it, at any rate.
i'm not finding animal biology to be so very much like that... which is demotivating for me, rather. the rat lab (in particular) will stay with me as a memory forever, though. anyway...
i was sort of thinking about doing a chem paper for summer school... even though it says it isn't designed to prepare you... anyway... i see the physics one i tried out last semester... won't actually let me enroll in it since i've done the one i've done... i think i'll just go and audit it. because... i'm finding i'm seeing physics everywhere... pressure here and diffusion there and electrical conductance here and waves there... and little equations and stuff... and, well, it isn't supposed to be hard in biology... the point is accumulating the masses of information. but i guess a huge part of what makes it 'not hard' is that one has focused on harder aspects... it will do me good to revisit the concepts even if i don't get particularly better at calculations. setting up the equations... seeing how variables are related... i see why it is required for bio-med. they let me get away with avoiding it if i major in physiology... but that isn't to say that the concepts won't haunt me forever after...
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