ø¤º°* Medical Microbiology Winter 2006 Club*°º¤ø

[kayel]

okay, people! who is with me on this one? i am feeling a little nervous about all those slides! i'm looking forward to meeting everyone in this course!

i will gather up any useful sites i find in the last med micro club and elsewhere and put them in this post!

here's a start ..

some sites from fall 05 club:

• microbes in sickness and in health (niaid)
  http://www.niaid.nih.gov/publications/microbes.htm
  
• microbelibrary (american society for microbiology)
  http://www.microbelibrary.org/index.asp
  
• microbes.info
  http://www.microbes.info/index.html
  
• "the grapes of staph" -- doc kaiser's microbiology website http://student.ccbcmd.edu/~gkaiser/goshp.html
  
• "cells alive"
  http://www.cellsalive.com/
  
• parasites and parasitological resources
  http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~parasite/home.html
  
• fun2care's micro quizzes
  http://www.nursingjourney.com/quizzes.html
  
• micro e-guide
  http://www.microeguide.com/toc_safe_frame.htm
  
• university of hawaii microbiology faculty site
  http://www2.hawaii.edu/~johnb/micro/index.html
  
• photo gallery of bacterial pathogens
  http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/3504/gallery.htm
  
• nikon microscopyu
  http://www.microscopyu.com/sitemap.html
  
• the gram stain
  http://www-micro.msb.le.ac.uk/video/gram.html
  

• biol 230 microbiology lecture guide unit 1

  
  http://www.cat.cc.md.us/courses/bio141/lecguide/unit1/index.html
  

• indoor fungus resources
  http://www.dehs.umn.edu/iaq/fungus/pictures.html
  
• microbiology articles
  http://bio.classes.ucsc.edu/bio119/winter04/webpgs_papers.htm
  
• richland college, lab procedures manual
  http://www.rlc.dcccd.edu/mathsci/reynolds/micro/lab_manual/toc.html

[stpauligirl]

Got my first lecture test tomorrow. I studied, did well so far on all quizzes, earned my 5 points extra credit towards this test and I feel prepared. It will be 50 multiple questions and we stopped at fungi.

I will review tonight....I hope it will be a good test, so far the teacher has been pretty reasonable.

It's been so quiet lately, how is everyone else doing?

[NRSNFL]

St. Pauli-

It has been quiet hasn't it. Can you tell school has begun again and everyone is hard at work/studying? Anyhow, I've got a 100 average in my lab right now, one quiz and many lab reports behind me (god these are sooo much easier than chemistry) and I have my second quiz in lab on Wednesday. As far as lecture goes, our second exam is on the 22nd....thank god they are on mondays so we can have scores on a wednesday and either celebrate/cry the weekend away. Anyhow that's it for me! Good luck to you

[Kathyz]

Just got back from my first micro test. Wasn't that bad at all. More than half was multiple choice with a few ques such as what are the steps in doing a gram staining, how are microbes good for us, etc. Fortunately we only had a 30 minute lab afterward! She said she'll be giving us our tests back on Thursday. I'm having more issues with Organic Chemistry. It's not hard but I think I'm having some hang ups in regards to material from Gen Chem (electron valences, bonding, etc). Stupid things I already forgot from last semester!!:selfbonk:

[stpauligirl]

St. Pauli-

It has been quiet hasn't it. Can you tell school has begun again and everyone is hard at work/studying? Anyhow, I've got a 100 average in my lab right now, one quiz and many lab reports behind me (god these are sooo much easier than chemistry) and I have my second quiz in lab on Wednesday. As far as lecture goes, our second exam is on the 22nd....thank god they are on mondays so we can have scores on a wednesday and either celebrate/cry the weekend away. Anyhow that's it for me! Good luck to you

Got my test results today and got a 101 % on the first lecture test Me and my normal flora are having a little dance right now

[Kathyz]

Kudos to you and Ms. Flora. :chuckle

[stpauligirl]

Kudos to you and Ms. Flora. :chuckle

I am glad that you have a sense of humor, later we'll have something cold made from yeast

[Kathyz]

Cool.

[stpauligirl]

Our nutrition is a self paced module. I've been working on it intensively through a book, cd and then take exams. I love it

Wow you are so lucky! I would love to take that class!

[Kathyz]

The class average for my micro test was 75. I was really shocked. I thought it was pretty easy although I got an 89.5. One girl got a 50. She's like "It's only going to get harder from here" and I'm like "Why?" And she responded, "Because now all of this information should be completely new to you." I'll just have to study harder.

[stpauligirl]

The class average for my micro test was 75. I was really shocked. I thought it was pretty easy although I got an 89.5. One girl got a 50. She's like "It's only going to get harder from here" and I'm like "Why?" And she responded, "Because now all of this information should be completely new to you." I'll just have to study harder.

there were 8 F's and 5 D's in our class, 3 A's, 5 B's and I forgot how many C's. The average is 70.....teacher is very bummed out and wasn't happy!

My 3 lab "partners" (bad students/lab partners) didn't do well at all. One was missing in action today so we had to work on stuff as a group of 3. One was pleasant but the other took her opportunity to get EXTRA crabby with me....she was rude (she usually is and I think she never liked me from the get-go) and BITCHED at me twice....the second time I lost it with her and told her that I had enough of her behavior and that I wasn't taking it anymore from her..... I told her off so bad she ran to the teacher and complained.... I will be sitting somewhere else from now on which is fine with me.... If you do well others will punish you and will give you a hard time but I am glad that I told her off.

You did very well according to the circumstances with your teacher and the crazy test questions. Keep up the good work. I will keep going as I have despite that ridiculous incident. Teacher said that tempers are flaring because of the tests but I told the teacher that this woman cannot let it out on me! What a day!!!!!

[Kathyz]

I'm not much of a "working group" kind of person. I'd rather do things by myself in lab but since we split up the work it isn't that bad. My teacher was kind of bummed out too. I didn't study was much as I should of last semester so I'm really happy. Now I'm onto worrying about my test in Organic Chem next Wednesday. I'm so stressed my neck is absolutely killing me. I need to make an appt w/ my chiropractor for an adjustment. I got a massage Tues (after my micro test) but my neck is back where it orignally was.

[stpauligirl]

I'm not much of a "working group" kind of person. I'd rather do things by myself in lab but since we split up the work it isn't that bad. My teacher was kind of bummed out too. I didn't study was much as I should of last semester so I'm really happy. Now I'm onto worrying about my test in Organic Chem next Wednesday. I'm so stressed my neck is absolutely killing me. I need to make an appt w/ my chiropractor for an adjustment. I got a massage Tues (after my micro test) but my neck is back where it orignally was.

I have this wonderful lavender neckwrap....you heat it up in the microwave and wrap it around your neck like a collar. Something like that might ease the tension and the pain. Please go and get it looked at by a doctor and get some painkillers.

Organic Chem is not easy, I had a very crappy prof and made the highest grade, a B

You hang in there and get some good rest and don't forget to eat so that you have energy.

I will take a nice hot bath....the kids don't have school tomorrow and we can sleep in some.