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

[moonischasingme1]

We also have the unknown project--kinda scary. I am not sure what to think about this class--looks HARD, but maybe it will be fun in some ways?

We have an unknown project too, cool.

[Thoc_123]

As far as I know, we dont have an "unknown project" but my instructor gave us 20 slides to look at and we only had about an hr to do so. We were definately rushed for time. So now we have to go back for open lab time and try to look @ all them @ our leisure. the problem is that the lab is almost 30 minutes from my house and open lab is only during the daytime and I work full time during the day!!!

[stpauligirl]

We are to look at every slide in the lab manual.......a lot of them. Sketch them in differet magnifications but most of all in oil immersion power. The slides will be in oil immersion for our practical.

No joke, my instructor (microbiologist) has a huge passion for the subject but the thing is that she also works at Yale..........you'd think we were in grad school.........lol

It's good to see you and I hope you feel a little better about your class. We have a 10 question quizz in lab tomorrow :uhoh21:

I read in the microscope section of the book that most microbes, especially bacteria can only be seen in oil immersion power (100X). So we will primarily use this kind of setting, too.

[moonischasingme1]

It says on our syllabus that quizzes are starting this week. I am guessing she will have questions regarding part and function to the microscope. Our lab manual is confusing and has different names for each part/change the name, so I have been looking for sites.

Here is one I found so far http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/courses/Botany_130/Microscope/Parts_microscope.html

If you find anymore, please let me know. I never really dealt with a lot of microscopes before.

[RosesrReder, BSN, MSN, RN]

It's good to see you and I hope you feel a little better about your class. We have a 10 question quizz in lab tomorrow :uhoh21:

I read in the microscope section of the book that most microbes, especially bacteria can only be seen in oil immersion power (100X). So we will primarily use this kind of setting, too.

Yeah, it's actually neat........the only downside is cleaning the oil up. It can get sticky.

We have a quiz every lab (it's mandatory for all sciences at my school). So it's a total of 15 quizzes, 4 exams and a final. Lecture is worth 60% and Lab 40%. It's the same thing as all the other sciences I have taken.

The only thing that I dislike about the grading system is that we do so much in lab including reports. Lecture is strictly graded on exams and final. An A constitutes a 94 and up. Very challenging I must say considering they don't and won't round a 93.9.......

I am reading the book (hope it helps somewhat because for some reason she cannot think our level. She is much to bright for that I guess :stone

I am so looking forward for April to get here :rotfl:

[kayel]

It says on our syllabus that quizzes are starting this week. I am guessing she will have questions regarding part and function to the microscope. Our lab manual is confusing and has different names for each part/change the name, so I have been looking for sites.

Here is one I found so far http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/courses/Botany_130/Microscope/Parts_microscope.html

If you find anymore, please let me know. I never really dealt with a lot of microscopes before.

Shoot, I know there was an awesome one that was on one of the A&P I links last term. I have been looking but haven't found it yet .. but this one had lots of interactive and rotating pictures. You could try looking at some of the links in that thread (I think the current A&P I thread has the same links in the first post). I'll post it if I find it .. but I'm heading to bed right now. Good luck!!

[nsgmjr]

start micro tommorrow lab first i am really nervous i too feel like i have had too long of a break and am nervous about getting back into study mode. I am really glad i found this site it is nice to have company to suffer through this with. I do know we too have an unknown which is worth a good portion of the lab grade. I am sure it will be interesting just hope i get it too as i am not real knowleadgeable about microscopes. Good luck to everyone hope with each others support we will all turn out A's for the semester.

[moonischasingme1]

Arrghh, I need a place to vent!

I had my Micro lab and lecture today. I am cross enrolling at the local college, so I don't have to drive as far to my university. The students at this school are much different from my school. It seems, in general, they have things spoon fed to them--teachers give them notes for everything, tell them everything--they just hardly let these students grasp the concept of actual studying instead of memorizing.

Anyway, the professor this semester is new, so she has been having problems with getting powerpoint notes on the computer system to be available for students, however, she lectures and if you READ YOUR BOOK, then it will make sense. Well, I swear like half of the class is just....AAGHHH..All they do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMLAIN!! One student was yelling at her today because he is like "YOU NEED TO DO WHAT I PAY YOU TO DO --AND THAT IS TEACH!" It is like, well, idiot, maybe if you read your book, listen, take your own notes, then you can understand what the heck is going on. The teacher is there to help, but not tell you every last thing--that is what READING IS FOR!

Most of the students in this class are nursing majors and I don't know how they're going to make it honestly. We wasted so much time today talking about how we don't know what is going on instead of actually LEARNING THE MATERIAL.

-vent-

Sorry, it is just frustrating to me because I spend a lot of time studying, reading my book and comprehending it, so I would love for the professor to be able to teach it and have it make sense/clarify things, but the students...man, they just don't understand how college works AT ALL.

They are like, "How are we supposed to study and be ready for this class if you don't give us notes?" UM, sorry, but hardly any of my teachers have EVER given me notes...we take our own notes.

OK, now I am done.

[Thoc_123]

Wow. I wish my instructors hand-fed me every detail of the class. Did they demand the answers to the final exam too? Sounds to me like a bunch of "kids". And as to the student that made the rude comment about "do what I pay you to do" I would have escorted his butt out of the class and told him to find a new instructor. (but then again, I have a very shallow patience level, so I guess that's why I dont teach )

I know it's frustrating when you are working your butt off and others are waiting for the easy road, but in the end you will have the better grade for it. Not just in that certain class, but also in the classes to follow that pertain to the info you just learned.

[moonischasingme1]

Wow. I wish my instructors hand-fed me every detail of the class. Did they demand the answers to the final exam too? Sounds to me like a bunch of "kids".

I know it's frustrating when you are working your butt off and others are waiting for the easy road, but in the end you will have the better grade for it. Not just in that certain class, but also in the classes to follow that pertain to the info you just learned.

Yeah, part of me feels sorry for them because I think they just need to establish in the beginning of the semester a reason/somebody they can blame if they fail.

Me? If the teacher is bad (and I don't think this teacher is bad...how can anyone know for sure if you have only been in one week of classes?), then I say, ok, nothing I can do about it, so I will just teach myself and work hard. I mean, if you have no choice, don't complain--just do it. Otherwise, get the hell out of the class because I really want to learn and I am not just interested in learning/memorizing for the exam too. Almost every question out of their mouths is, "Do we have to know this?" WELL, SHE IS TALKING ABOUT IT--SOOOO learn it!! I kind of go by the philosophy of KNOW EVERYTHING and then I won't have to worry about what to know/what not to know

ay yayaya

Also, she hasn't honestly gone over anything we don't already know-the macromolecules, ok..you should have learned these in AP1. This one chick was like, "I am sorry, but I have no idea what you are talking about...I haven't seen this since ANATOMY 1!" Hmm, I wonder what the book is for?

[Nurse-To-Be-Joy]

Moonischasingme1, I know how you feel. Classmates like that are awful. I assume most of them will be going into nursing? They are in for a hige shock. From what I hear, most nursing schools don't use lots of study guides, etc. You actually have to work. So... just ignore them and make the most of the class yourself. Good luck!

[moonischasingme1]

Moonischasingme1, I know how you feel. Classmates like that are awful. I assume most of them will be going into nursing? They are in for a hige shock. From what I hear, most nursing schools don't use lots of study guides, etc. You actually have to work. So... just ignore them and make the most of the class yourself. Good luck!

That is what I thought in regards to nursing school and study guides, etc. They think the teacher is supposed to supply these things, but really--it is a luxury. They should be grateful she even spends the time to make them for us--even though we have not received them yet. If my teachers ever do give us notes or study guides, I am like, WOW!! THIS ROCKS!! Not, "OMG, HOW CAN I STUDY FOR THE TEST IF YOU DON'T GIVE ME NOTES!!"

I feel like I am in high school or middle school, haha.

Thanks!