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[fahye]

My neuroscience course assessment consists of two 30% exams and 40% PEER-ASSESSED GROUP WORK.

*cuts a bitch*

This post gets the 'science is painful' icon just for that. Ugh. I was really looking forward to this course, too.

Oh oh oh though. My ecology of health & disease outline makes me stupidly happy. SARS and influenza and AIDS and asthma and cancer and malaria and smallpox and TB and plague. And I'm doing the group assignment for this course (what is it with second year biology and group work?) on current issues in reproductive technology, which should be really interesting.

Genetics looks to be exactly what we did last year, only in three times more depth. Goodo.

And I should probably get back to fighting my way through this visual detection of motion textbook so I can work out what my fourth course research is going to be on. It's like trailblazing in a sodding jungle, I swear. I have to hack away at things until I can see even the faintest glimmer of light.

Vanishing of the non-Fourier components at the appropriate intersection luminance requires logarithmic luminance compression before motion analysis.

Yeah. What the fuck, textbook. Please make sense.

Comments

[kcdl.livejournal.com]

Yeah group work sucks. Unfortunately the ANU got feedback a while ago that its graduates could use some more teamwork skills (or so I was told) and so you get it a lot. The group work I did for BBoB was fairly painless though 'cause we had about 11 people per group. Still it is far less stressful, in my opinion, just to do it yourself - to many cooks and all that. Still it wasn't that bad, we did a really creative presentation with video and stuff and it was actually fun to do.

Is this research project purely a literature search or do you get to do some practical stuff as well? I did work experience at the RSBS visual science lab in year 12. I wonder if you'll get to meet Michael Ibbotson, he was really good at explaining this stuff.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Um, I haven't decided yet. Probably a lit review and then a couple of experiments. I'm doing it with Mark Edwards, who is in the school of Psychology. He used to be an engineer. He is big on the psychophysical side, which is interesting but UGH HARD.

[minkhollow]

::eyes textbook bit::
...That sounds disturbingly like some of the magic!technobabble at various points in the Enchanted Forest Chronicles. (Can you tell I've been rereading? XD)
Which, while entertaining, doesn't really do anyone a damn bit of good.
Also, it's 2 AM and I should perhaps not be typing at you.

Second year.

[drealle.livejournal.com]

I'm always around for a tea (I currently have the Tea Centre's Wintertime, Red Fruits and Stockholm Blend on my desk), a caramel slice, and I'm willing to lend an ear, a hand, or other parts of my anatomy that may be required. Just let me know.

Re: Second year.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Thank you, dear :) Are you doing anything at...let's see...between 10am and noon, or after 1pm? (Oh, the joys of first week - no labs!) I'm all for tea and caramel slice and discussing the second year courses!

And I'll bring my Serenity comic to show you. SHINY NEW.

[oscar-dom.livejournal.com]

Peer assesment? What kind of sadist comes up with that. To answer your question from before, I'm studying arts (haha, big surprise, HUUUGGEEE surprise) majoring in classics and English. Clearly a highly useful degree... It will earn me MILLIONS.