Sunday, February 19, 2006

spring enrollment

its time to enroll for classes for the next quarter. and again, i feel the severe inadequecy of the position im in now.

one of the major advantages of joining this big public university is the sheer vast diversity of classes available for my choosing. look at biology for eg. wanna study abt AIDS? learn the societal impacts of it in BICD 136 - AIDS Science and Society. Or take BIMM 132 - Molecular Biology of Human Retroviruses to learn abt the replication cycle and gene regulation of HIV. Or even BIMM 110 - Molecular Basis of Human Disease, where you learn abt CCR5delta32 and how this defective cell membrane protein provides immunity against HIV (you lucky caucasian guys).

Not interested in AIDS? Take something else. BIBC 116 - Evolution of Genes and Protein teaches you abt observing evolution through divergence of primary sequences, aa sequences and protein 3d structures. Or BIEB 154 - Molecular Evolution, focusing on the role of mutation, selection, and drift at the molecular level. or even take a course from the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD on modelling protein folding.

Or try Biology of Cancer for everything on the deadliest thing known to man, or Circadian Rhythms—Biological Clocks, to find out why you cant sleep at noon and cant wake up to mug at 3am. (or, at least for most normal pple). And not least, why not try the whole plethora of classes on marine biology, esp since we have world reknowned leader Scripps Institute of Oceanography professors here just down the road?

Gosh. im tempting myself so much by listing all this down. maybe i shld leave my boring Recombinant DNA Lab till later and take these fun classes first. but darn. 3 years is too short to enjoy all this courses! :..(

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