Sleep plan did not go as planned. Woke up at 5 am with bad migraine, was so exhausted by the time it dulled that I slept until past 10 in time to turn on BBC America and catch a Dr. Who marathon. Went to class, just an intro meeting, but the class seems like it'll be a ton of work. Every four class meetings we have to submit what is essentially a mini-lit review, as well as heavy speaking up and discussion contribution - which I suck at.
Not to sound snobbish, but typically things easily make sense to me and I never see a point in asking questions when I understand everything. I never know when I'm saying enough to satisfy the instructor, either. This will require coming up with a plan to fix this...so far I've thought of:
1) Thinking of alternative techniques to solve their problems and asking why they did what they did.
2) Why they used their specific model organism.
3) Holes in their logic,
4) Things they didn't show that they should have done
5) Ambiguous data that they draw conclusions from...
Meh.
Speaking of discussion classes, our colloquium seems to be quite chaotic this year. Last year's was boring, just various instructors presenting papers each week and the class discussing them. To prevent repetition, this year they decided to have us attend other program's colloquiums and right papers on them. The thinking is that we can participate in programs that we are interested in. However I am interested in genetics, so I have no genetics focused coll to attend, and this just seems kind of nuts. We'll see.
Got home just in time to make a giant tuna noodle casserole, grab a bowl of ice cream, and watch more Doctor.
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