Thursday, October 31, 2013

Buhay Bio

BS Bio students should be able to remember a lot of stuff in order to get through life. Processes, cycles, chemical formula, equations, solutions, scientific names, and tons of facts make up most of our every growing vocabulary. Let me use this skill or innate human function to remember the best memories in my biology courses.

Bio 11
- First bio subject which I only got during second year, unlike the new curriculum which offers the course for freshmen
- I got sick during finals week! It was the first time that I had to go through the paper work just to get a make-up exam.  There's a new procedure for this, and I don't need to know about it now.
- Fascinated by the experiment with photosynthesis. The plant in a tube that produces bubbles, and another experiment involving a tube, a straw and a pH indicator.
- Tried to pith a frog

Bio 12
- Forever with the poor drawing
- A lot of scientific names
- First failing mark in a long exam (first or second), recovered with a 80+ exam in the genetics and ecology part
- Onchorynchus tshawytscha, Plasmodium falciparum, Cnemidophorus uniparens
- Pangalan nito
- Wacky lab prof
- Special report on Drosophila because I served as a color bearer during Gawad Chancellor Awards
- Always late for lab period because I had Physics
- Ecological succession, hay infusion!

Bio 180
- Frequently sleeping during lectures, regardless of prof
- Terrible seatworks!
- Histograms, the classes and the 0.5s

Bio 115
- The botanical terms for plant morphology
- Seeing the different plants up close, and knowing them a little better
- Cananga odorata, Magnifera indica, Bauhenia purpurea, Ixodes, Ixora, Saccharum officinarum, Pterocarpus, Dipterocarpus
- My love for the herbarium
- Lecture report was fun, new topic and a special groupmate
- Fun field trip! Strong rains, electricity gone and fieldwork under nimbus

Bio 118
- Catch the 150!
- Same lec and lab prof!
- Fun fieldtrip! During my birthday! Spent it with great friends. Family went to LB, ate at Max. Enjoyed all field work, amazed by IRRI! Stayed at TREES, the isolated one. Played fun games at night and caught a lot of insects! Met a grade school friend!
- Failed to oven-dry some insects that i submitted, so i guess my insect box really stunk, sorry Sir :))
- Unlimited ipis, dissection!
- Learned to catch butterflies, damselflies and dragonflies with my bare hands
- Became less scared of living organisms
- Odonata, Orthoptera, Collembola, Formica, Hymenoptera, Blattodea, Reduvidae, Grylloblattodea, Brachycera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera, Mantodea, Phasmatodea, Bombylidae, Lampyridae, Cicada, Isoptera, Neuroptera, Thysanura

Bio 120 Take 1
- Hell in lec, sleeping time during lab
- Washing glass ware never felt this good, and at the same time life threatening
- Began disinfecting surfaces everywhere, and all the skills needed for microbiology
- Ubiquity of microorganism
- Helicobacter, Brucella, Leptospira interrograns, Bordetella, Yersina pestis, Xanthomonas, Epulopiscium fishelsoni
- Walanf magagawa yung lab grade mo
- Unang singko
- Beware of malachite green

Bio 101
- Drawing forever
- Ipomea batatas
- Sobrang daming cambium, xylem, phloem

Bio 102
- For me, the worst bio course I took. Bad lec and lab performance
- Lec, sleep sleep. Only got my book for the second exam and the following exams. Failed to read the book, so I got low on exams.
- Teeth pattern, appendage pattern, cranial nerves, the parade of organisms
- For lab, I enjoyed the dissections, but dreaded the exams up to every question and result
- Cat's name was Pussy Cat Balls, i forgot if that was ours =)), had only one contaminated cat
- Skinned a cat for an extra time, almost had a perfect brain extraction! Cats were swimming in wiping solution and sometimes concentrated formalin
- Cat review at blockmates house, slept again.
- Did not have fun with the shark and the laterality of bones, apart from the rest of the lab topics.
- Locker 66 was born

Bio 150
- A whole new world, always late for early lecture classes
- Didn't have a copy of the book until the second exam
- Lab period was easier, fun groupmates
- First time to drop a subject, had to heed the advice of the lecturers. Kinda regret.
- Dr. Kandel's lecture, professor's distinct jokes and laugh
- Lab classes without a whiteboard marker! We have but it doesn't write!
- Beware of the EtBr

Bio 121
- I had to take this early since my thesis was on Plant Physio
- Enjoyed the lecture and lab, greenhouse trips! Best experiment was the nutrient testing.
- I accidentally dropped the contents of one chlorophyll extract tube, and I didn't tell my groupmates. I reported the readings were bad.
- First time to hear of a refrigerated centrifuge, used one as well.
- I forgot my report in the lec, plant hormones ata. Ethylene and Giberrelins
- Favorite topic: Stress Physiology

Bio 122 (shit i forgot to add this)
- Enjoyed lec class very much, galing ng lecturer. Topics were not boring because of him, but at times I kept my eyes shut for some uncontrollable factor. A lot of applications or you get to have this "ohh" realizations
- Sana marami pang courses na kunin si sir. Bitin raw lagi yung lec time, pero minsan tumatagal o maaga nagsisimula. Was not happy with my performance.
- Enjoyed lab classes as well. Two instructors. Fun experiments, even tried to mimic them outside the lab.
- Fun messing around with frog muscles and organs. Bottomless pithing!
- The blood, the worms, the oxygen, the LabPro and the exercises for the LabPro experiment. Napa-squat thrust for science!

Bio 140
- Minsan natutulog sa lec, our prof usually has a story about his laptop wallpaper
- A lot of paper work for lab classes. Chromosome cutting, rules and laws of inheritance, probabilities.
- Onion experiment! Pepsi pogi! tried to count the onion cells by myself
- A lot of incest situations in our written exercises

Bio 196
- Laging kabado pa rin kapag nagrereport, may mga di tuloy ako nasasabi o binobola ko nalang yung mga nakikinig.
- Had to attend seminars, porma porma din kapag Friday

Bio 150 Take 2
- Bawing bawi!
- First time nakasama ang maraming lower batch
- Journal Club, medyo hassle lalo na nung sinama sa exam lahat ng topics. Reported on Candida
- Had the worst lec exam scores dun sa pinakamadali daw na LE. Had high scores dun sa mahirap magpaexam :))
- Favorite experiment: DPPH Antioxidant Assay
- Slept in one lecture class, teacher asked a question, i failed to answer. Teacher asks another question, now addressed to the class, I answer, and scored a come back. Then natulog sa following classes.

Bio 160
- Fun field works, batting, herping, counting trees, plants and organisms along the way.
- Became interested in freshwater and stream ecology. Riffles and rapids!
- Applied 118 skills for our Land SP. Didn't know shit about MPN (since I was sleeping during 120) for our Aqua SP.
- Best field trip! Leave it there :)

Bio 191
- So much information, too much that I died
- Wingless gene and EFalpha alpha whatever gene.
- Favorite words: Concatenated trees, PAUP, Parsimony

Bio 120 Take 2
- Bawing bawi!
- Enjoyed the experiments and understood them now!
- Lab periods was somehow dragging.
- No fear in lecture classes, but I wasn't able to recite as much as I wanted.
- First time that I really memorized Bergy's Manual (120 version not the 4(5) volumes)
- Synthesis paper about Bacteriophages and wrote about Chlorobium
- Most useful lessons in life are seen in this course

Bio 132
- Best subject, best lecturer, best instructor! So much inspired by my lecture prof, but the urge to keep quiet and let your knowledge inside me was strong. Recited every now and then. Got fine marks in lec and lab exams, no failing grades!
- Dahil sa nabasa ko tungkol sa insulin activation pathway, binawasan ko na pagkain ko sa kanin
- Dahil sa nalaman ko tungkol sa stress at yung dulot nito sa katawan, lalong tumindi ang pagtulog ko
- Dahil sa 132, madami akong susuriin sa anak ko
- Ngayon ko lang nagustuhan, naintindihan yung mga tinuro nung 102, halos magkadugtong o pareho lang sila.
- Egg died, named it Spong
- Wait wait, Slideeees, the anatomically correct heart and the perfect pig representation

Bio 200
- Ayoko na balikan. Please lang =))


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