Educational level: Associate's Degree
Short term goal: BS or BA in Biology
Long term goal: MS in Biology
Current Semester: Junior
Classes taken or in progress (toward BS):
Microbiology
Vertebrate Zoology
Physics I
General Bio II
College Algebra
Principles of Chem I
Classes needed for BS:
Cell Biology
Genetics
Mammology
Animal Physiology
Chem II
Physics II
Stats
Pre-Calc
Calc
Gen Bio I (for some reason Gen Bio I didn't transfer...)
Ecology
Plus 3-4 electives...
Time until graduation (with BS)- 2-3 years
9/2/10- 2nd week of classes...feeling overwhelmed alreadyy...spent 7-8 hours doing online math homework (I must really love Bio to put myself through this...lol)chem is going to be my most challenging class (one of the classes they use to weed out the intellectually inferior..I'm considered a "Pre-Bio Major" until I pass both Chem I and II)..I have a quiz tomorrow and I'm unsure how well I'll do even though I've been studying all week...love my vertebrate zoology teacher..we've been discussing elasmobrach radiations as well as the heterodont teeth adaptation of modern sharks and differences in caudal fin structure among actinopterygians and the evolution of the jaw from placoderms to members of the Sarcopterygii class...anthropology is interesting..watched a video in which a Hmong shaman beat a drum with beans respresenting the souls of family members on it until they fell into a hole in the center of the drum..aka "sending the soul home"...the length of time it takes is equal to the degree to which one's soul is "lost"...class lasts 3 hours......my roomate is a chem major who suffers from asbergers and autism but seems like a good guy...he always says inappropriate things but hell...he's a chem major and helps me with my homework; so I forgive him...