blog by zahra

Jello Wrestling!

Jeopardy!

Prof Pageant!

Paralympic athlete Andrea Holmes!

And Much More!!!

What: The most exciting week for science students!

When: January 23-27 (this week!)

Where: Mostly at Abdul Ladha and the SUB…check out http://scienceweek.ca/ for exact times and locations.

What you can get out of Science Week:

• $20 gift card prizes for the most creative or most nerdy photo from Science Week 2012!
• Get entered in a draw for a $20 UBC Bookstore gift card when you use the #SciWeek2012 hash tag on Twitter – the more times you use it, the better your chances!
• Be one of the first 100 people to answer the daily SUS trivia question (posted on the blog the night before) and win a prize!
• And you’ll get even more prizes and free SUS swag if you participate in the events!!!

I know there are a lot of exclamation marks in this post, but I’m just sooo excited about the week ahead!!! 🙂

Are you or your friends feeling your anxiety levels rise at the mention of chemistry?  Are you worried that your GPA will drop because of *shudder* o-chem?  If you need help with CHEM 123, I might just be the person you’re looking for…

• I received an A+ in CHEM 123
• I have completed CHEM 233 (2nd year organic chemistry)
• I have previous tutoring experience

I hope that you’ve all had an awesome jump start to Term 2.  I certainly have!  Here are my thoughts so far…

MICB 202 – Introduction to Medical Microbiology and Immunology

The professor I have for Immunology is a little dry when it comes to lecturing, but she’s still good.  And I find the content really interesting, so that’s keeping me tuned in.  I like how there are course notes – it helps consolidate the readings.  Definitely don’t want to fall behind in this course, since I’ve heard the exam is BIOL 112-esque.

BIOL 201 – Introduction to Biochemistry

So far the material is not thoroughly difficult and not too interesting.  The prof’s okay and the class seems to be the longest 50 minutes of my life, but the lecture notes are really thorough.  Again, there are specific course notes, which is lovely.

CHEM 205 – Physical Chemistry

I’ve only had one class so far, so not too many thoughts on the course material itself.  The prof is a little hard to understand.

FNH 250 – Nutrition Concepts and Controversies

I have this once a week, for 3 hours all together.  It’s tiring, and the prof is pretty boring.  The material seems like it will be interesting though.

CLST 301 – The Technical Terms of Medicine and Biological Science

I’ve also only had one class for this course, so I have no idea what the quality of lectures will be.  We’ve gotten our first vocab list to learn – it’s harder to learn suffixes and prefixes which can’t be said out loud (because they don’t form a coherent sounding word).

Happy New Year!!!  I hope you’ve all had a restful break.

Enjoy the last few days of the holidays!  Reality Check: Term 2 starts on Wednesday…

Try to prepare your bookstore shopping list for the week by checking out your personalized booklist: http://shop.bookstore.ubc.ca/default.aspx