Second year Biomedical Science - Catch up!

Hello,

5:55pm

BTW this post is going to be a long one, so go grab a cuppa (lets catch up).
 

I was going to post the day 2 details of the first aid (previous post) but decided since the two days were quiet similar, I'd spare you the boredom. 

So YEAH I started my second year, it's going quiet well actually. I have uni for only 3 days, can we just have a "oooooooo" everybody say ooooooo (sorry I'm just a little excited). I actually had a great 6 month break but it was going on for toooo long. I'm back and I'm ready to hunt for the 70-90% (أنشالله - God willing). 

This year I'm aiming for a 1st class or a minimum of 2.1 (inshallah) just incase your wondering in my FIRST YEAR I got a 2.1 that's 66% 4 more % and I could have had my FIRST CLASS HONOUR(58% for Biochemistry, 48% for Physiology, 83% for lab skills and 75% for immunology).
 

There are 4 modules this year, they include; 

- Medical Microbiology and Immunology (BMS3403
- Approach to experimental research (BIO2003)
- Clinical Science (BMS2513)
- Molecular and Metabolic biochemistry (BMS2113)

*I will refer to each module by its code. And when I say formative I mean practice sort of coursework and summative is the actual coursework.

My first semester is coming to an end, hopefully from now on I will update you guys frequently ( will try anyways).

I am actually enjoying university a lot more than last year. Firstly, I am working harder, secondly I am working a lot harder. I really hope my hard work pays off though.

DEADLINES:
- BMS2113 - Formative Lab practical worksheet 1 - DONE
                    - Formative Critical review - DONE (submitted today)
                    - Online test on Semester 1 (molecular) - 14th December
                    - Summative critical review - 22nd February
                    - Mock exam - 4th March
                    - Lab practical worksheets - 22nd March
                    - Unseen EXAM!!! - date to be confirmed

- BMS3403 - Online quiz - 13th January
                    - Formative Case study - 24th February
                    - Summative case study 1 & 2 - 24th March
                    -  Formative Microbiology Lab report - 24th March
                    - Summative Microbiology Lab report - 7th April
                    - Unseen EXAM!!! - date to be confirmed
               
- BIO2003 - Data analysis 1 - 23rd February

                  - Formative worksheets - 23rd March

                  - Data analysis 2 - 6th May

                  - Literature review and project proposal - 6th May

 

- BMS2513 - Problem solving assignment - 25th March

                    - Unseen EXAM!!! - date to be confirmed

 

I've started working on the data analysis 1 but since I don't have the Minitab software I  cant produce the graphs and the stats until Tuesday (Mondays are my days off).

 

Last night I started working on the lab practical worksheets, going to continue later on. If I forget to update to guys on marks I have gotten on coursework or exams do remind me in the comments section.

 

Hopefully blogging my every move (uni work move) it will help me keep on top of deadlines.

 

I have seriously been enjoying my labs so far for Molecular and Metabolic biochemistry, we've had a lab on DNA extraction, PCR and Gel electrophoresis and the last lab we had 2 weeks ago was the DNA fingerprinting it was sooooo much fun (inner nerd speaking here). We got given a sample of DNA from a crime scene and 5 suspect samples. We made the gels and loaded them with all the samples (experiment nearly went wrong due to first sample not being loaded properly) but luckily our teacher and technician saved our work. We took a picture of the gels and DNA fragment bands and we figured out that suspect 3 was the culprit, had to work in groups of 4 only knew 1 of the girls, there was this ANNOYING dude working with us, GOSH! never again! (here's being hopeful).

 

Can you believe we've had lectures and seminars for half of the Molecular and Metabolic Biochemistry module ( the molecular section, I can start revising for) still haven't completed my notes yet, since I was busy with the formative critical review ( which isn't assessed but by doing it we get an addition 3% for the module) YAY or NAY? Lets use the Tesco reference here "every little helps" :)

 

This week we started BMS2513 and the module leader looks like her:

 

 

 

 

 

Her voice is actually so calming its refreshing, she seems cool and the module seems very interesting.

 

I think that's enough for today.

 

DR wannabe