1. Three main things in BIOL463

Please describe, briefly, the three things that you learned in BIOL463 and that you consider to be the “most important” ones.

 

1. Things are never ever as simple as you hope.

 

2. There are million ways to explain how a certain phenomenon could have occurred; proving a certain one is a completely different matter.

 

3. The human genome has a yielded a massive amount of information at a rate that scientists cannot fully interpret the significance of the data; the limiting factor is not the information available, but the information you understand. Attempting to complete my final project has shown me that my limitations are not what data humans currently lack, but what information I can manage to understand and use to create my hypotheses with, and eventually use to interpret experimental results with.

 

1. Identify types of knowledge

For each of your three “things”, please try to identify what type of knowledge it represents (Factual, Conceptual, Procedural/Skills, Metacognitive).

 

1. Conceptual
2. Conceptual
3. Conceptual

 

1. What makes “things” stand out for you

For each of your three “things”, please indicate what made it stand out for you.

 

They stood out to me because they were not factual knowledge, they were broad overarching facts that influence my line of thinking when considering scientific querries.

 

1. Relevance/use

Please describe, briefly, what you expect each of these three “things” to be useful or relevant for.

 

As stated above, I believe these concepts can optimize my line of thinking when considering scientific querries. These heuristics can optimize my objective assessment of many different system, regardless of whether it is directly relevant to the genome or not.

 

1. Three main things in your undergraduate education

Please describe, briefly, the three things that you learned during your undergraduate education and that you consider to be the “most important” ones. Why do you find them so important?

 

 

1. Knowing things from class doesn’t mean much in the work place; experience in learning new things and skills is the most desirable ability for most real-life employment. This is important for practical reasons, such as finding a job.

 

2. An extreme amount of factual knowledge pertaining to biology, especially to humans. This knowledge is the amalgamation of my education and the justification and validation for me spending more than 5 years of my life spending money to work instead of working to spend money.

 

3. I learned to passively view things from the perspective of an organism. This sounds bizaar, but I find it helps me rationalize and understand why culture and people act the way they do. Believing in god, hating people with different colour or reproductive organs, or making off-hand mean comments are all more easily understood when seen in the light of evolution and natural selection.

 

While I feel 3 is the most important for a greater-than-thou view of the world and helps to understand the situations faced in life, 2 will likely be most beneficial to my longterm.

 

 

Hey, thanks for the course. It was one of the best ones I had.