Eduventure: The AR Edition - School Chat

A thread for educhation discussion.

My genetics assignments are finally done! It was reasonably bullshit that the two assignments, for two different papers, were due on the same day - nice going, Genetics department - but at least I didn't have a genetics lab on the afternoon before it was due like some other apparent poor sods.

GENE223 (Developmental and Applied Genetics) was a "lab report", which is like a lab report (the kind I'm required to do for zoology) except it's a half-arsed edition that can't figure out what tense you're supposed to be writing it in and gives less practice for writing a real submission to a real scholarly journal and is less clear about how exactly you're supposed to format the jerky-dry piece of shit. Not to mention the experiment itself gets a solid out of for being properly structured so results were actually comprehensible and actually accurate enough to use as the basis for a credible report. Unlike GENE222, they don't borrow a small squadron of zoology lecturers who likely tell them how much more progressive their department is in teaching us how to do things like the big kids do.

I shouldn't really bitch about it, but when I spend time trying to fit a "big kids'" report - as taught by my Zoology courses - into the format the Genetics department is apparently grading on, and I friggin' suffer for it, yes I'm gonna bitch about it. GENE223's course content doesn't really light my metaphorical effigy in comparison to GENE222 either. (Additionally: Fuck the nomenclature for papers. It gets friggin' confusing when I've got shit due for different papers.)

Then again, GENE222 (Genes, Chromosomes, and Populations) is all about evolution and genetics and the kinky stuff they get up to in the ol' biosphere. It's pretty much exactly what I came to university, which is awesome except it makes me so much more belligerent about everything else I'm learning. Which, luckily, is less than last semester (fewer papers, not fewer brain cells running, but yeah).