Archive for April 8th, 2007

O Professor, Full of Hate

Steve, the professor for my genetics course, is the devil.

I’d just like to express my frustration at the quiz that he set for us this past Thursday.  I studied my ass off for this test. I was prepared. I was psyched.

I took one look at that test, and I was screwed.  God!  How could I have been so off mark with the study material?  I knew none of this stuff, or very little. The more I scanned the pages of the test, the more I thought to myself ‘oh man, i’ve studied the wrong units for this.’  I left the exam after about 25 minutes, drenched in the scent of failure.

But to my surprise, I wasn’t the only one who felt this way .   The others agreed - the content of the quiz was discontinuous with the content in class.  It was clear after the test that we should have focussed on the minutiae; silly us, studying the ‘bigger picture’ things like gene regulation and the consequences of errors in regulation.  No, that stuff is clinically relevant – it has no place in Biomedical science.  All of this for 10%!?

Steve, why do you hate us?

Adrian.


One Version of Things

I'm a 24 year old gay medical student living on the Gold Coast in Australia. This blog started as a way to blow off steam (ie procrastinate) during the tedious med-entry period, and snowballed into a sort of outlet of self-therapy. It's my way of pulling back to look at the bigger picture. So here it is - the bigger picture. Or one version, anyway. I hope you enjoy it here.

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