Show and Tell

Today, we had a show and tell for IDC. It was actually pretty fun. I brought my dad's CPAP machine and was given a few minutes to explain what exactly it was and how it helped to cure sleep apnea. It was also a contest for the best show and tell item, and I think I won, based on my classmates' positive response. Yay!

The exams were moved

THe physics and biochem exams were BOTH moved. So I'm now living the chill life.

Just joking. I'm going to take full advantage of the fact that there's no bio...
At least I can play a few games on the side though haha

Expecting a sermon + prep for biochem

It's 12 and my lab class is at 1, where more than likely I'll be getting my lab exam results back. I'm expecting a stern sermon on how bobo we are... oh well.

Now also I need to owe up to reality. Biochem and physics exams are coming up. Time to cram my 2month backlog hahahhaa (its definitely possible. It's NOT bio. After going through bio, I feel like I can do anything...)

End of Interbio weekend :(

Last Thursday we had our first lab depex exam for Biology, and the Thursday the week before that we had our first lec depex exam also for Biology. This weekend thus presented a small glimpse of freedom. By tomorrow I'll have to start studying for the next exam... :(

Chatting with my buddy

It's always a pleasure to chat with my lower-batch buddy :/ I see part of myself in her, and it's always refreshing to remember and share the emotions and feelings I myself felt when I was still in LU1. Most of all, sharing tips reminds me that everything comes to pass with time. I used to think a lot of things were impossible during LU1 but here I am now, in LU2, in my final sem before med school! It just gives me such good vibes huhu

Taking full advantage of interbio weekend

Cutting all my classes today (Biochem and Physics) because those subjects are cheese easy compared to bio, and I can easily cram the lessons for those subjects without breaking a sweat (at least, compared to how much I have to sweat when I study bio). I want to take full advantage of the interbio weekend and be with my family. Bye.

Lab Exam 1

The Lab Exam was so difficult!!! The questions were so pointed... you could really feel your ignorance :--( I really think I didn't do so well. The class thinks the same. We all expect a very very low score... huhuhu

At least, its the start of interbio weekend!! That weekend in between bio exams which is super super super super chill. I can finally play DOTA again. Ugh yehess!!

I miss math :(

Miss ko na ang math. Ppl don't value the fact that in math, there's only one right answer, and it's found through logical reasoning. It's an exact science. It's not like bio, where you have to account for wrong sectioning/atypical crap/conflicting info and u can never be sure :(

[taken from Twitter]

Bio Lab review

With the vagueness of Ma'am Co's questions, I really need to be sure I can get high scores in the other block's prof's questions. That's my only hope for passing. The other prof however gets questions directly from the books. So all I have to do... is memorize Rugh and Pattens... At least for her, the questions will be expected.

Lab Long Quiz + Lec exam score

Surprisingly, the long quiz on serial sections wasn't so hard. There were a few questions which I find unfair because of their vagueness, but all-in-all they were easier than I had expected. It was mostly identification with a few side questions in between, nothing special. It was wayyyyy better than the OIA long quizzes for bio 25, which, like bio 30 now, required us also to memorize a table. I remember failing all the long quizzes for OIA in bio 25, but I think this time I was able to pass.

Our papers for lec were also returned today. I got 70.5/100, and considering the difficulty of Bio, I'm happy na. I thought my score would be wayyy higher though. I really believe that there are a lot of corrections to her questions... a shame she won't allow us to see the questions again.

LOL HERE COMES THE SENSE OF URGENCY

Okay fine, its JUST a long quiz in BIO tomorrow, but then, I have to do well pa rin. Time to memorize the other half of the F-table... hahaha

YES IM SO CHILL

Super benign knowing that its ONLY a long quiz on Monday. I just played DOTA the whole day today.

Procrastination

The high of being able to convince ma'am Co and be assertive hasn't run out yet. I still can't believe we were able to move the exam to next Thursday!! I can actually play video games now! In reality I had already memorized 1/2 of the table prior to knowing the exam was moved so I'm really living the chill life. yay.

Bio Lec Exam

I actually kinda felt confident after taking the exam. The questions were definitely challenging, as my professor, surprisingly, knows how to make really good questions :O It actually reminded me a bit of my time in the advanced science class in high school. The questions weren't simple recall questions. They really tested your understanding of the material...

Whatever the case, I'm happy that bio 30 isn't even remotely like bio 25. Bio 25 felt like a trivia exam to be honest. Bio 30 required more analysis and I prefer those types of exams.

In another story, after a weekend of trying to prepare for the lecture exam, our class has given up in preparing for the lab exam scheduled next Monday. We have to memorize, among other things, a 4-page long 7-column table... Out of desperation two other classmates and I decided to approach Ma'am Co and do the impossible: beg to have the exam moved.

I was quite apprehensive at first since ma'am Co is well-known to be a terror prof but I was surprised to find out that she listens to reason. The three of us just had to explain the situation of the class and how we didn't have enough time to prepare for the really long coverage of lab given the lec exam. We also managed to call off the quiz she had scheduled for us that day, which none of us had prepared for at all!!!!

Day before bio

Today, Feb. 14, is the start of Lent (and is also Valentine's day). It also signifies the start of our death for bio... because the lec exam is tomorrow.

Dumb me also decided to play one game of DOTA to "detox" but lol playing dota to detox is like courting death. Lost the game, ended up feeling worse than before. Damn it, now I need to study while feeling BV.

That LQ was a wake-up call..

I really need to fucking get my shit together for bio... HAHAHA. Probably gonna cut tomorrow, its the first bio lec exam on thursday kasi, and its supposed to be the easiest!!! I need to rack up points because I know that in the future I'LL NEED THEM HAHAHA AT THIS RATE???

WTF is this Bio lec LQ???

Our first bio lec LQ was today, and I had assumed it was gonna be easy given that we learned these things about the frog before... boy was I wrong HAHAHA

ganito pala magtanong si Ma'am Co sa tests... ang labo..... tapos hindi pa mulcho/identification, may essay and table questions pa... wtff

Cramming STS ethnography paper and STS outline

In my team, we divided the group. 4 of them would be working on the STS outline (we were required to make an STS outline for a reading in class), and one would be working on the STS ethnography of an online community.

I offered myself up to be the one to make the STS ethnography because 1.) I didn't wanna read the reading and 2.) I had the perfect community to analyze: the super toxic but also interesting DOTA 2 community. It was a lot of fun cramming that paper.

Piano lesson + New piece!!

Okay, I was wrong that the concerto was the only piece I was missing in my repertoire before I could hold a solo concert...

I already have a piece prepared for the classical and romantic periods of music, with the modern piece ongoing (the capstone concerto). Plus, I also have representative pieces (3 etudes, one sonata, waltz (chopin), prelude (rach)).

But I entirely forgot about the baroque era! my teacher assigned a new piece to me, by bach. the last time I played a Bach piece was when I was very very young. I hope I enjoy this new piece. It's really easy and it's almost sight-readable, but thats understandable given the musical era it came from.

PIANO PRACTICE DAY YES

Sorry if I keep posting about piano, but every Friday is really my happy day because I am reunited with my piano.

I was able to start on the 3rd movement of the Kabalevsky concerto na. THe only part we finished 2 years ago was the first movement. Hopefully I can finish this concerto soon, so that I can have my long-awaited and long-planned solo concert :(( Ito na lang talaga yung kulang. The piece where I play with the orchestra!!!

Successful Bio 30 Student Lecture + Lab Long quiz

We pleased ma'am Co!!! She said it was good! Aside from one small detail we missed, everything went perfectly. She was so entertained during the lecture. She was smiling the whole time. Feels so good that all the preparation reading on books and summarizing them into one coherent whole was worth it. Love my team for the Dora the Explorer Concept and thanks also to the class for being bibo enough to play along to our antics!!

Praying to God also works!! Praying to St Jude works!! Omg

Surprisingly the lab long quiz wasn't as difficult as expected as well! I'm confident that I did well. Such a great day!!

Bio gastrulation prep problems

I SHOULD HAVE CUT PE. I KNEW IT.
I needed time to complete this damn powerpoint and do the needed research, but no, I wanted to be a good boy. Now I have to pull an all-nighter just to finish this damn project.

Cramming for Bio

Anyway, today was just another day of studying Bio. I am currently preparing for a long test for bio lab as well as a presentation on amphibian gastrulation for Thursday. My group was unlucky as we were chosen to be the first to present. I'm already getting so agit over everything, because all the sources we used have different stories to tell about the gastrulation! Our group is currently trying to synthesize all of these different concepts into one coherent whole in preparation for the presentation. Another thing which is bothering me is that 20% of this presentation will be graded based on creativity. A suggestion came up that we should create a short dance about gastrulation which we will cram tomorrow. Hopefully that is enough creativity for ma'am.

Compared to my other classmates, I'm not so agit over the bio lab test -- probably because I have worse things to worry about :(

Wait there's a probset due tomorrow???

ugh physics the perpetual pain-in-the-ass subject which makes itself felt in the most unopportune moments.........

Lab exercise 3 due tomorrow

WTF I GOT EVEN WORSE IN THE SECOND LAB EXERCISE LOL? 5/10????
PLS IM WORKING SO HARD OMG
I ENJOYED THE LAST FEW ACTIVITES IN LAB BUT LOL PARANG FORCED TALAGA TO ALAY THESE WORKSHEETS??

Preparing for the concerto!!

This concerto by Kabalevsky was a work in progress of mine for sooooo long. I wasn't able to finish it 2 years ago because I entered intarmed. It's time to start finishing it!!!!!!

Thankfully my teacher understands my problems and she agreed for us to study it again even after so long.

Thank God its friday hahaa

I can finally practice piano for my lesson tomorrow (my upright piano is in qc so I can't practice well with my digital piano in the condo)!! it's great to be back!!!

Lab Pointing Test!

Today for lab we had a test wherein we had to search a slide for a particular structure/cell and show it to the prof with the eyepiece pointer directed at it. It was kinda fun (although it was super pressuring and scary as well, especially since the prof makes side comments at you as you search for the structure!)

It was way better than the first test we had (where the prof herself was the one who pointed the structures and then we needed to identify). Allowing the students to handle the microscope allowed us to adjust the fine and coarse adjustment knobs, as well as search for a clearly represented cell/structure that we knew 100% was the thing we needed to find.

In the other test, the prof made the microscope slides really really blurry plus we were only allowed to use a certain magnification, not enough to 100% ascertain the identity of a cell :(\

ALSO I SUBMITTED MY LAB EXERCISE 2 SANA NAMAN ITS WAY BETTER LOL