Back again, back again! New year, new president, new classes. This semester I’m taking GenChem 2, Bio 1113, Med/Ren 2666 (witchcraft and magic!), and Intro To World Cinema.
In bio, we started out learning about DNA and proteins. I learned the veeeery basics in high school bio, but with the background I learned in GenChem 1 last semester, seeing how everything lines up is really neat! Also, each base that makes up the structure of DNA has a letter (ATGC) and would take about 6 billion letters just to make up the DNA code in most of our cells. 6 billion!
We had to spend the first week of class at home which is how I learned that in order to succeed, I need a dedicated workspace. In high school I could do homework anywhere: couch, table, or bed. But college requires higher level work (duh) and therefore needs it’s own productive space.
I’ve struggled a lot chemistry already this semester. My professor goes very fast and is hard to understand at times. It doesn’t help that the past few chapters have been mostly Calculus and I’ve only taken math up through Precalc. Plus, the homework doesn’t exactly line up with the book and the chapters we’re on. But, I’m really proud of myself because for the first time ever I attended office hours to get help on the homework, and I made an appointment with my TA to go over a question that I didn’t understand. It truly made me feel like I was a responsible college student.
I already achieved one of my goals for 2021. I went to the RPAC for the first time ever and worked out! I feel like going to gyms is so anxiety inducing because everyone there seems to know what they’re doing and they know all the unspoken gym rules. But I swallowed my pride and went and it wasn’t that bad! I’ll definitely be heading back.