Monthly Archives: July 2017

First Year – Term 2 Course Memories (Each in 10 words)

Math 103 – Integral Calculus with Applications to Life Sciences

FREAKING OSH, converge to 0, +C, Jellyfish live forever, integration

Biology 140 – Laboratory Investigations in Life Science

Tenebrio molitor, Reject Null Hypothesis (α = 0.05, p <0.05), Forcing Research Papers to Make Sense.

Chemistry 123 – Thermodynamics, Kinetics and Organic Chemistry

“Alrightttttttt”, “Ok!”, Chair structures, Entropy, Gibb’s Free Energy, Ice Cream.

Chemistry 123 – Lab

Vitamin C, “the patient is dead”, pure caffeine, no instructions.

Music 119 – Introduction to Music Technology 

“everybody ropes, everybody rides”, MIDI, Technical Difficulties, Goats Beard.

Science 113 – First-Year Seminar in Science

“so, what is science???”, “Weeellllll…”, “alright, carry on”, constant confusion.

Taking Summer Courses for the First Time

A little less than a month ago, I finished my first Summer term at UBC.

And oh my goodness was that a wild ride. Mistakes were definitely made; at often times life decisions were reevaluated with no improvement in sight.

After hearing many stories of 4th years in science rushing to finish their 6 credit communications requirement (Basically English and writing courses of some sort), I didn’t want to be that upper year stuck in a room with 29 1st years, so I decided that I would finish my communications requirement as soon as possible. I didn’t take an English course in first term, and I took Scie 113 (that course made me feel many conflicting emotions that weren’t good) in term 2, so I chose to take English 112 in May.

Being the crazy person that I was, and partially being influenced by my equally crazy and delusional peers, I thought taking 1 course at a time, downgrading from the 5-6 courses I took at a time during the winter term, was kind of an underwhelming course load. (Mistake #1: Thinking 1 core course in the Summer is too little. Past Katie was a very naive soul) I aimed to specialise in Biology, which I got into btw (yay me), so I needed to take the infamous Chem 233 – Introduction to Organic Chemistry. From multiple outlets I’ve heard that the prof teaching Chem 233 during the Summer, Jay Wickenden, was amazing, (which he is, he’s probably my favorite prof so far) and that it would be easier than taking it during the Winter. I had one of the earliest registration times for Summer courses, so I decided I would take Chem 233 and get it over with.

In the end, I took English 112 and Chemistry 233 during the 1st term of Summer.

HAHAHAHAHAHAH OH MAN THAT WAS SUCH A MISTAKE #REGRETS2K17

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