Wednesday, January 21, 2004
all right, a few things to adress here
1. Mike, i posted about the itunes for windows coming abd how all you bill gates biotches would realize how good this program is. so next time the guy thats into macs tells you about an awesome FREE program that you have the privelage of trying, LISTEN, it will do you right.
2. Brad, I know you mean no harm (or maybe you do) but comments like that can't help anyone.
3. Bobby should drive more carefully on wet roads. NO. People named Robert should drive carefullyer on wet roads (Bob and Rob spun out last night before and after the pantry, respectively).
4. I was ridin my bike ot the gym and i saw Princess (don;t remember if i blogges about her but shes a grad student who went to MIT for undergrad adn i had a class with her). I stop and she asks me how its goin. I took my headphones off and she asked me again cuz i gave her the "wtfdys?" look. i was like "allright," didnt mention the events of recent, as it would jsut induce apologies for something someone did not do, adn i dont think she realyl cares. she then asked how many classes i am taking. five: my answer. five?!? thats a lot, she replies. no, thats about average here. really? even at a semester schol five is a lot. i said not here. i know i complain an awful ot about the workload here. im nto sure poeple realize how rediculous it is. stupid MIT. i like it here though. so thats good
5. fuck i cant remember the other things i was going to post (muster) about.
6. oh, i know
7. i am taking Bi/Ch 111 Biochemistry of gene regulation. interesting class but it has the stupidest structure. there are two one hour lectures a week and a two-hour section each week. the classes consist of the prof going through his powerpoint presentation (he transitioned to powerpoint last year, half his slides are scanned hand-written notes(this is an exaggeration)). the other seven-fifths is about RNA polymerase (I,II,and III) and its 50 subunits. gel after gel after gel afte gel. all telling me something-if i were awake. oh andthen hell have a chart with the results of some experiment. but the chart is huge (i.e. has lots of info on it, which if it were a size i could read would fill a page, but it fits on the damn projection screen, so i cant). oh a note on the projector: this bun cant get it straight, literally. this little feet on the bottom of the projector dont work so well so he uses a combiation of phone books and caltech catalogs to prop it up jsut right. well just wrong. the way the screen is the projection has no parallel sides!!!!! so annoying. ok. the sections consist of students giving presentations. everyone is in a group of four or five people. each group presents twice. and it presents two papers each time. no homework! two presentations thats it. the tests come fomr the papers. never once are we going to be held accountable for the lectures, WTF mate? im not complaining its jsut wacky. i know this is a bad thing to say after i complain about hte workload. but idgaf.
so the point of explaining all this (98% was not neccessary however). the group presenting htis week had a paper where they used this ubiquitin (an awesome protein, but whatever) thing, not important what was going on, except that they had to differentiate between the carboxy terminus and the N-terminus of ubiquitin. so all over the presentation was Cub(ub in subscript) and Nub (ub in subscript) man was i giggling on the inside.
also the other paper had some protein where the a lysine was important. but as the guy looked at his slides as he talked he said potassium instead of lysine. i htink hes a chemist.
if you get why thats funny, good. if not it goes like this. scientists try with very little success to make sense out of the letters they use to represent larger words. Like C for carbon. well they always fuck it up right form the start by naming everything by starting those names with the same letters. as a result the single letter code for lysine is K (leucin gets the L honors) and potassium gets K cuz fosforoos gets the P (though this may be some latin thing like lead, but idont care it was funny, but oh so nerdy).
1. Mike, i posted about the itunes for windows coming abd how all you bill gates biotches would realize how good this program is. so next time the guy thats into macs tells you about an awesome FREE program that you have the privelage of trying, LISTEN, it will do you right.
2. Brad, I know you mean no harm (or maybe you do) but comments like that can't help anyone.
3. Bobby should drive more carefully on wet roads. NO. People named Robert should drive carefullyer on wet roads (Bob and Rob spun out last night before and after the pantry, respectively).
4. I was ridin my bike ot the gym and i saw Princess (don;t remember if i blogges about her but shes a grad student who went to MIT for undergrad adn i had a class with her). I stop and she asks me how its goin. I took my headphones off and she asked me again cuz i gave her the "wtfdys?" look. i was like "allright," didnt mention the events of recent, as it would jsut induce apologies for something someone did not do, adn i dont think she realyl cares. she then asked how many classes i am taking. five: my answer. five?!? thats a lot, she replies. no, thats about average here. really? even at a semester schol five is a lot. i said not here. i know i complain an awful ot about the workload here. im nto sure poeple realize how rediculous it is. stupid MIT. i like it here though. so thats good
5. fuck i cant remember the other things i was going to post (muster) about.
6. oh, i know
7. i am taking Bi/Ch 111 Biochemistry of gene regulation. interesting class but it has the stupidest structure. there are two one hour lectures a week and a two-hour section each week. the classes consist of the prof going through his powerpoint presentation (he transitioned to powerpoint last year, half his slides are scanned hand-written notes(this is an exaggeration)). the other seven-fifths is about RNA polymerase (I,II,and III) and its 50 subunits. gel after gel after gel afte gel. all telling me something-if i were awake. oh andthen hell have a chart with the results of some experiment. but the chart is huge (i.e. has lots of info on it, which if it were a size i could read would fill a page, but it fits on the damn projection screen, so i cant). oh a note on the projector: this bun cant get it straight, literally. this little feet on the bottom of the projector dont work so well so he uses a combiation of phone books and caltech catalogs to prop it up jsut right. well just wrong. the way the screen is the projection has no parallel sides!!!!! so annoying. ok. the sections consist of students giving presentations. everyone is in a group of four or five people. each group presents twice. and it presents two papers each time. no homework! two presentations thats it. the tests come fomr the papers. never once are we going to be held accountable for the lectures, WTF mate? im not complaining its jsut wacky. i know this is a bad thing to say after i complain about hte workload. but idgaf.
so the point of explaining all this (98% was not neccessary however). the group presenting htis week had a paper where they used this ubiquitin (an awesome protein, but whatever) thing, not important what was going on, except that they had to differentiate between the carboxy terminus and the N-terminus of ubiquitin. so all over the presentation was Cub(ub in subscript) and Nub (ub in subscript) man was i giggling on the inside.
also the other paper had some protein where the a lysine was important. but as the guy looked at his slides as he talked he said potassium instead of lysine. i htink hes a chemist.
if you get why thats funny, good. if not it goes like this. scientists try with very little success to make sense out of the letters they use to represent larger words. Like C for carbon. well they always fuck it up right form the start by naming everything by starting those names with the same letters. as a result the single letter code for lysine is K (leucin gets the L honors) and potassium gets K cuz fosforoos gets the P (though this may be some latin thing like lead, but idont care it was funny, but oh so nerdy).
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