Writer's Block: I'm Doing Science!

[lilylemons]

... The list is endless, but mostly involves discoveries of the universe. From discovering new things about Mars, to coming up with technology that will allow us to travel to Mars, to the discovery of Supermassive Black Holes and Magnetars, to the discovery of hundreds of thousands of galaxies within what is only viewed as a black void from Earth

Comments

[surrey_sucks]

Microbiology is soooooooo hard!

[lilylemons]

Haha, I'm most worried about the math I need for it. :|

What would you say is the hardest part about it?

Since you asked.... (sorry for the novel)

[surrey_sucks]

First of all, I understand that in any subject, understanding >> memorization. True, you can't simply memorize things, but have to have a good basis of understanding. But for some things, you simply have to memorize certain things, and this is the case in microbiology/immunology, especially on exams (in real life you can look up information, but in school, you must memorize a ton of crap, which is really unfair).

Microbiology is not more difficult to understand than other subjects, but the amount of detail you have to memorize for a test is absurd, and also you learn the material super quick so you don't get a chance for it to sink in. For example, in one class, which was about microbial growth and gene regulation, we learned about dozens of different genes and proteins (in great detail). The "easy" part was understanding what the gene/protein did in the bacterial cell and how it was regulated (that part was usually common sense--if gene ABC breaks down [some nutrient], of course it's not going to be transcribed and translated

Re: Since you asked.... (sorry for the novel)

[lilylemons]

Oh my goodness... LMAO Scary. I'm still going to try though! Who knows, maybe I'll find out I have a good memory? Hopefully... D: