Microbiology - Fall 2005

maliat · Sep 3, 2005

Whats everyone doing to memorize their microbiology history (first chapter)???
Having to remember all the first men and what they did...

Luckily we only have to remember a couple of them. I think just going over the information multiple times helps. Also if there are any practice tests in your text, your text's website or CD-ROM helps. The more ways I get the info, the more likely I am to remember it.

Wish me luck. Two quizes next week - one in lecture and one in lab. Luckily we get study guides for both.

Fun2, BSN, RN · Sep 4, 2005

I found that outlining my notes, and typing them up helped. Then I studied from that. I also read the notes outloud while recording. I made CDRs and listen to them in the truck all the time.

Good luck! :)

Luckily we only have to remember a couple of them. I think just going over the information multiple times helps. Also if there are any practice tests in your text, your text's website or CD-ROM helps. The more ways I get the info, the more likely I am to remember it.
Wish me luck. Two quizes next week - one in lecture and one in lab. Luckily we get study guides for both.

BoonersmomRN · Sep 6, 2005

So what is everyone doing in lab/lecture?

Today in lab we did transferring microorganisms from a tube to various agar mediums ( slant tube/stab tube/agar plate). We also swabbed various places in the room.

Lecture so far has been a review of prokaryotic cell biology..literally. Today we did the " cytoplasmic membrane" and the way things cross ( osmosis, diffusion, actuve transport, etc etc)....it's been soooooooooo boring so far. Thurs we get in to Gram +, Gram -, Acid-Fast cell wall, etc.

BoonersmomRN · Sep 9, 2005

Anyone alive out there? LOL!

Someone PLEASE tell me lecture gets more interesting. I am having a BLAST in lab and struggling to stay awake in lecture. Today my professor droned on forever about the similarities/differences between Gram Neg/Gram Pos/Acid Fast....at least an hour and I could have summed that all up in about 10 minutes. Well...at least lab is FUN!

Glimmer · Sep 9, 2005

*SIGH* At least you are having fun in lab... our lab instructor treats us like we may be in highschool... although that is with her giving us a little credit. She insist on doing a fairly intense lecture during lab as well. I think that it is almost safe to say that I HATE LAB! This makes my 6th lab science class and I have never EVER hated a lab. If it were not for the fact that I have two of my best friends in the class with me I dont think I would make it through the class. We are allowed a 3-5 min break during our 3 hour lab and you basically have to have her permission before you can leave the break to take it. She held us over last night (my lab runs from 7-9:50) and we did not get out until almost 10:15!!!!

Lecture... well... I actually think that I like lecture. I did not have it this week because of the holiday. My instructor moves very fast and so you really do not have time to get bored. I have found that even with the information we are covering have a lot of review to it that I am able to stay focused in her class. She has it set up so that it feels like you are taking 3 50 min class sessions, so you get 2 ten minute breaks which helps out a lot.

This is the opposite for me, usually I end up very bored in lecture but put me in the lab and I love it. This semester I feel like I have a full time babysitter that is watching the class... it is HORRIBLE. Maybe it will get better.

Race Mom, ASN, RN · Sep 9, 2005

Luckily we only have to remember a couple of them. I think just going over the information multiple times helps. Also if there are any practice tests in your text, your text's website or CD-ROM helps. The more ways I get the info, the more likely I am to remember it.
Wish me luck. Two quizes next week - one in lecture and one in lab. Luckily we get study guides for both.

Do you still need this info? I dont know if you have tested on it yet but my prof put it on one sheet with name, date, and what they did. I would be happy to post it here, so let me know. That goes for anyone here.

Woogy

maliat · Sep 9, 2005

Had my first quizes for lecture and lab this week. Whew, it wasn't bad at all. Though not looking forward to next weeks lab quiz, becuase we're going to have to memorize a whole bunch of bacteria that normally occur in the soil and different parts of our body.

What's cool is I'm starting to see the names of the bacteria we're studying show up in other places. And I was glancing through the PDR (I work in a library and process new books) and there was a list of bacteria that this specific antibiotic worked on. Though didn't understand the microbiologocal explanation of why it worked, yet.

Malia

Fun2, BSN, RN · Sep 9, 2005

How are y'all liking MicroSUX!? lol

I'm so glad mine is over. I'm not sure how it would have gone if I had taken it during a regular semester, but it was hectic taking MicroSUX! in an 8-week course!

Good luck!

BoonersmomRN · Sep 9, 2005

Ugh Glimmer I feel for you. I have both lecture + lab 2X a week and each one is only 90 minutes. I have the same teacher for both...and in lab he's soooo interesting and in lecture- yikes. It doesn't help that we spent an entire week learning the differences between eukaryotic/prokaryotic...all of which I already know...and the Gram Pos/Gram Neg/Acid Fast Wall lecture was horribly boring as well. It's such a downer going from lab to lecture. I hope your lab class gets better:)

Butterfly3001 · Sep 10, 2005

Ugh Glimmer I feel for you. I have both lecture + lab 2X a week and each one is only 90 minutes. I have the same teacher for both...and in lab he's soooo interesting and in lecture- yikes. It doesn't help that we spent an entire week learning the differences between eukaryotic/prokaryotic...all of which I already know...and the Gram Pos/Gram Neg/Acid Fast Wall lecture was horribly boring as well. It's such a downer going from lab to lecture. I hope your lab class gets better:)

Oh my goodness we're in the same exact boat. In lab I really like it because Im learning new things. But in lecture she is so boring, which I too have after lab, so it makes my Tues and Thurs. go by real slow.

RedSox33RN · Sep 10, 2005

We had our first lab and lecture on Thursday. What a freakin' joke that was!

First, our lab is right before lecture, from 8:30 to 9:30am, T and Th. No one ever said that there is NO LAB the first day! So we waited outside the lab until 9am, and I left to go listen to my radio in the car until lecture. I could've slept another hour! At least they could've posted a note on the door.

Then in lecture, the prof said she HATES using Blackboard, so will not post her PPT lectures on them. So it's take your own notes - which means copying everything on the PPT lecture in class AND trying to write all of what she says that goes along with the presentation. Fine. So, I'm recharging my PDA to record the lectures.

But she just seems so......unhelpful? I hope she gets better, but she came off as a real snot. When she asked a question aloud about Micro history in class, someone answered incorrectly, and her reply was, "What??? NO!" Um, aren't we LEARNING here? No need to dress someone down for a wrong answer of something we haven't even learned yet! Geez!

So, I've had my first lecture, and not my first lab. We have to know all about the lab BEFORE hand though, so I'll be studying this weekend!

ksparkman · Sep 12, 2005

We are using the book titled Microbiology author Robert W. Bauman. The reason why I ask is because there are critical thinking questions throughout the chapter and I want to check my answers. However, I can't find the answers anywhere in the book.

If anyone is using this one, do you know what I'm talking about and where to find it?

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