25-04-2005 03:46									#1
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I'm thinking of doing a beginner's Swedish course next year (in addition to the shitload of biochemistry courses) as a break from the, um, aforementioned **** load of biochemistry courses.

Ah swedish....like an angel with a head cold sighing.

	25-04-2005 03:54									#2
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Couldn't you take up something a little more 'relaxing' to take your mind off the sh*tloads of biochemistry?

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Starchild, what is the biochemistry like? I've been reading about it, and it seems fun, but how is it different from a straight chemistry course?

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Maybe it involves a lot of "swedish" biology specimens ....

	25-04-2005 05:19									#5
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quote: Originally posted by Krill [threadjack] Starchild, what is the biochemistry like? I've been reading about it, and it seems fun, but how is it different from a straight chemistry course? [/threadjack]

There's a far bigger focus on the biological aspects of chemistry and the chemical processes necessary for biological life.

The impression I've gotten here, at least, is that the biology courses touch on the chemical side of some stuff and the chemistry courses touch on the biological side of other stuff, but my biochemistry course focuses on that other stuff and takes it into much much more detail. So while I'm losing out on general all-round-i-ness I'm gaining in deeper understanding of where the two meet.

	25-04-2005 10:50									#6
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If you want to learn to speak Swedish properly, like an angel, start here

	25-04-2005 10:56									#7
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I'd slå till den.

	25-04-2005 18:32									#8
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You can do it, Starchild! Only you can save us now.

	25-04-2005 18:37									#9
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ohh.. svenska... .. good luck, maybe you learn how to say good morning and what time is it in swedish, because by nature you are not determined enough! Or are you? PS. since I'm a foreigner and have learned swedish, you shouldn't learn swedish. You should learn finnish, to keep the balance .... then again you don't believe in balance, ,do you, you heretic you..

	25-04-2005 20:34									#10
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It's all a moot point now anyway as I found out the microbiology course does a module in prion diseases so I switched out of Swedish as fast as I could.

Prions are so cool.

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quote: There's a far bigger focus on the biological aspects of chemistry and the chemical processes necessary for biological life. The impression I've gotten here, at least, is that the biology courses touch on the chemical side of some stuff and the chemistry courses touch on the biological side of other stuff, but my biochemistry course focuses on that other stuff and takes it into much much more detail. So while I'm losing out on general all-round-i-ness I'm gaining in deeper understanding of where the two meet.

thanks for the info I have to apply to uni in september, so every little bit of info that helps me uderstand is useful.

	25-04-2005 21:15									#13
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don't do it. Scientists suffer.

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Aye, we do. My English Lit friends have seven hours of lectures/seminars a week and have to write essays. I had double the number of lectures, plus 5-7 hours spent in a lab each week, plus two sets of seminars (one for bio, one for chem), plus a freeeking maths unit so we can all add up the pretty numbers, in addition to the essays, the lab reports, and the reading during our spare time.

That said, I love this course.

	25-04-2005 23:29									#15
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Why is biology so popular?

	26-04-2005 00:02									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Sandman Why is biology so popular?

Because all the cool people study the biological sciences

	26-04-2005 00:38									#17
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quote: Why is biology so popular?

For the same reason many kids and teenagers wanted to be astronauts at one time - At least that's what it was for me: The drive to be on the frontier of human discovery and accomplishment.

Of course, the reality, in both cases, slaps people on the face with a large trout.

	26-04-2005 00:52									#18
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quote: Originally posted by Az quote: Why is biology so popular? Of course, the reality, in both cases, slaps people on the face with a large trout.

I still have huge, trout-shaped red marks on my cheeks

	26-04-2005 00:55									#19
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I just have the huge part.

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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison I still have huge, trout-shaped red marks on my cheeks

Fear not, my friend, this is a part of current life for people who wanted to be "real scientists" and achieve greatness: I am pondering my GMAT and MBA already.

	26-04-2005 01:06									#21
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I want to do Chemistry/Biochemistry/Natural Science at Uni as they are the only things that I have a decent amount of skill at...

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How are your people skills?

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quote: Originally posted by Az quote: Why is biology so popular? For the same reason many kids and teenagers wanted to be astronauts at one time - At least that's what it was for me: The drive to be on the frontier of human discovery and accomplishment. Of course, the reality, in both cases, slaps people on the face with a large trout.

That doesn't explain why it's more popular than physics or chemistry.

	26-04-2005 01:42									#24
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quote: That doesn't explain why it's more popular than physics or chemistry.

Sure it does.

Biology is portrayed as the coolest science in current movies and books ( not sci-fi, but action) and is acknowledged as the one facing and fighting the greatest human fear, the fear of death and aging, for example.

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People skills are OK, I've worked as a salesman in the past, so I am approachable.

	26-04-2005 02:47									#26
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get a Bachelor's in biology or stuff, and unless you're accepted by the top heads of the field as a grad student, don't bother. That's what me thinks, personally.

	26-04-2005 02:50									#27
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I got out of research, I felt it was a road going nowhere for me...I've done alright since and I've struck a nice big vein of ambition too

	26-04-2005 02:51									#28
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But in doing what, really?

research is the essense of scientist's work. That and development, maybe. All the rest is bad. At least that's my POV.

	26-04-2005 02:54									#29
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got to get into Uni first though. That is the problem...

	26-04-2005 03:42									#30
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I've got an interview tomorrow for a paid studentship over the summer working on a project isolating, identifying, and cataloguing microRNA (miRNA) fragments involved in gene regulation of model organisms.

Starchild <----- Nervous