Microbiology Spring 2007

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:welcome: Gonna try to stick this one!!! Heres to a wonderful semester for all us MBers :):welcome:

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Blessedmom, if your house is clean, you can study to your heart's content!! Mine is in such a state that the week won't be enough. I still have my Christmas break goals posted by my bedroom door (I spent more than half of it curled up with a flu). Maybe this week I will have time to donate all the kids' outgrown clothing, make myself a dress and potty train my 2yo. I'll start with the potty training and see if there's room for any of the rest of it. I'm also planning to read and test out of the last 4 chapters of my online Sociology class. Yesterday, I had the brilliant idea to read the rest of my Micro textbook so it will be more familiar when we go through it in class. I'm sure that won't really happen, but it would be cool, huh?

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Blessedmom, if your house is clean, you can study to your heart's content!! Mine is in such a state that the week won't be enough. I still have my Christmas break goals posted by my bedroom door (I spent more than half of it curled up with a flu). Maybe this week I will have time to donate all the kids' outgrown clothing, make myself a dress and potty train my 2yo. I'll start with the potty training and see if there's room for any of the rest of it. I'm also planning to read and test out of the last 4 chapters of my online Sociology class. Yesterday, I had the brilliant idea to read the rest of my Micro textbook so it will be more familiar when we go through it in class. I'm sure that won't really happen, but it would be cool, huh?

Well on top of trying to take Micro and AP2 and taking care of three kids under 7....we are moving in a couple months so I have to keep my house clean for showings (it is on the market). No stress there. lol.

Wow, the rest of your book? Rock on girl! That is awesome. I just read an article about Clostridium botulinium and I was like oh nuts which was that. I knew it was G+ but I was like there is something else...there is something else...so of course I had to look it up. lol. I have a 2 y/o as well but not trying to pt yet! Yikes adding that on my list might drive me bonkers. What month was your 2 y/o born in? Good luck with the list. Hope you stay nice and healthy and productive

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So my spring break has arrived. I am sitting here thinking about studying some more of my AP2 whilst I wait. I just cleaned my house and now I am feeling guilty about not studying. How sad is that? lol. Halfway through and I have a 98% in Micro so I am pretty excited and hoping I can keep it that high! Our next bits are on the actual diseases! I am so excited. Last class we looked at a bunch of conditions. It was pretty amazing.

Blessed you and I are neck and neck, your taking ap2, as well aren't you?

We have a test in Micro on Tuesday, genetics, DNA Recombinent and Viruses then we have a take home on prokaryotes/Eukaryotes then we move on to the good stuff! I can't wait our instructor has her speciality area and experience in medical micro so we will be getting into that more so then usual classes she says.

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Blessedmom, if your house is clean, you can study to your heart's content!! Mine is in such a state that the week won't be enough. I still have my Christmas break goals posted by my bedroom door (I spent more than half of it curled up with a flu). Maybe this week I will have time to donate all the kids' outgrown clothing, make myself a dress and potty train my 2yo. I'll start with the potty training and see if there's room for any of the rest of it. I'm also planning to read and test out of the last 4 chapters of my online Sociology class. Yesterday, I had the brilliant idea to read the rest of my Micro textbook so it will be more familiar when we go through it in class. I'm sure that won't really happen, but it would be cool, huh?

Potty training a 2yr old is an uphill battle, I would definetely restructure my time and do something more constructive, if you wait until you toddler is ready you will have absolutely NO work to do in the potty training department. All of mine trained in a day by themselves when they were ready all 3 by 2.5yrs.

Give yourself and your 2yr old a break and relax about that and move on to something more fun.

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Yep Catzy, AP2 as well. I have an A in there but not quite as solid. Its like a 92% right now :). I will get two A's at the end *I think I can I think I can I think I can*. lol.

I am so excited to be getting into the diseases too. We start with the Infections/Diseases of the Skin next week....woohoo!!

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What month was your 2 y/o born in? Good luck with the list. Hope you stay nice and healthy and productive

She was born in August. She became terribly interested in toileting right before her birthday last year, but because of school, I haven't had time to do more than let her go when she wants. She hasn't figured out BMs in the toilet, but she's great with urine. I'd like to switch over to training pants and see how she does over the week. She's made the mental switch to considering herself a big kid instead of a baby and I think this will be pretty painless. If it isn't, she can go back to diapers until summer. We use cloth, so it's not like there's a financial incentive to switch. I just need to have the mental availability to watch the clock and issue reminders.

Thanks for the warning, Catzy. I think she's ready. I already did the uphill battle training my autistic son (I could write a book, "Potty Training in A Year" but I bet it wouldn't sell). No way would I waste my time pushing a kid who wasn't already interested. Our teacher is also an RN and spends a lot of lecture time veering off into medical subjects. It's terribly interesting, but sometimes I just want to shake her and remind her that she needs to get back to what she'll be testing us on.

Denise

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Yep Catzy, AP2 as well. I have an A in there but not quite as solid. Its like a 92% right now :). I will get two A's at the end *I think I can I think I can I think I can*. lol.

I am so excited to be getting into the diseases too. We start with the Infections/Diseases of the Skin next week....woohoo!!

oh yes that will be fun. We just finished Viruses I never knew! I learned so much I was so excited to go to class hehehe. I think we are doing pharmacology first which I know everyone grones over but I love that stuff.

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Our micro class started out with 18 students. Over the first 8 weeks, eight people dropped (two dropped after the first class!). Then last week, someone didn't show up for our Lab midterm, so I guess they are gone too. We are now down to 9 students! I've never been in a class where everyone dropped like flies! I'm half-way expecting to lose a few more too! Last week, on the day we took our lab midterm, our instructor handed back our tests from the previous week (we meet ALL day, once per week), and two people started crying when they got theirs back....

The class is tough. I'm a straight-A student, but have a (high) B in this class right now. On the first test, the highest grade was a 92 (the only A) and was made by a biology major who took this guys Pathogenic Bacteria class last summer. She said everything is like a review for her (and she STILL got a 92!)

What is your class like???

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She was born in August. She became terribly interested in toileting right before her birthday last year, but because of school, I haven't had time to do more than let her go when she wants. She hasn't figured out BMs in the toilet, but she's great with urine. I'd like to switch over to training pants and see how she does over the week. She's made the mental switch to considering herself a big kid instead of a baby and I think this will be pretty painless. If it isn't, she can go back to diapers until summer. We use cloth, so it's not like there's a financial incentive to switch. I just need to have the mental availability to watch the clock and issue reminders.

Thanks for the warning, Catzy. I think she's ready. I already did the uphill battle training my autistic son (I could write a book, "Potty Training in A Year" but I bet it wouldn't sell). No way would I waste my time pushing a kid who wasn't already interested. Our teacher is also an RN and spends a lot of lecture time veering off into medical subjects. It's terribly interesting, but sometimes I just want to shake her and remind her that she needs to get back to what she'll be testing us on.

Denise

That is awesome that she is ready. Nolan is not even close to being ready! Both my older two were right around 3 y/o when they trained.

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We are finishing up viruses, and just began our Unknowns during Wednesdays lab. Needless to say I am very, very nervous!!

Hope all are doing well!!

Jenny

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We are finishing up viruses, and just began our Unknowns during Wednesdays lab. Needless to say I am very, very nervous!!

Hope all are doing well!!

Jenny

Have fun Jenny,

We just finished Viruses too, we will have a take home test this week then we do one more chapter I forget which but we have spring break coming up first week in April. We will start our unknowns when we get back from break. I am nervous too I have heard its a lot of work and worth a huge part of our lab grade.

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we are doing unknowns now and viral stuff in a couple of weeks.

This could be beneficial! ;)

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