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I knew I'd love this class. Test 1 went so beautifully. No ecology riddles nonsense too.
It feels like that time I took the BLG800 final exam with Fillingham and I remembered thinking that was the kindest final exam I've ever taken in my life. I feel pretty similar here.
No regrets.
https://reddit.com/link/1t9mdzt/video/wraqht3y9e0h1/player
If anyone is interested, the original paper is this. For some reason PubMed has always decided to crap out with Captchas and redirects for me lately, just like how BLAST has progressively gotten worse and laggier ever since funding changes happened. If you can't access the paper immediately, what is working for me is to copy paste this link into the search bar and then searching for the article:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3565511/
Here's the citation just to make this easier:
Suárez-Rodríguez M, López-Rull I, Garcia CM. Incorporation of cigarette butts into nests reduces nest ectoparasite load in urban birds: new ingredients for an old recipe? Biol Lett. 2012 Dec 5;9(1):20120931. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0931. PMID: 23221874; PMCID: PMC3565511.
While this is interesting, when I saw this video I had terrible flashbacks of those ecology tests and that final exam. I instantaneously thought was this video was some diabolical apparent competition question at first 😭
I'm just wondering if in light of recent news, any other biology major is considering taking the condensed version. I'm still considering doing the original winter class since doing the equivalent of 3 AJ-BCH361-makeup-final-exam style tests in the span of 1.5 months really doesn't do it for me. For context, BCH463 is 2 midterms and 1 final exam.
If the prof is significantly better than Dustin Little (or Dustin Little is teaching it regardless) then I may consider it, since Dustin Little is already considered to be a really good teacher. BCH463 is just a really hard info-heavy biochem no matter how you slice it.
If Marshall is teaching the summer version, honest to god I'd rather just avoid it. I know people glaze Marshall too, but his testing style just really makes me prefer having traditional in-person tests.
I have just been thinking (late at night now) that this was the most unpleasant class I've ever taken. I'm still glad to have gotten this done. Lmk if you want my notes for this class so you don't have to waste time taking them next year. I've made deep ones on the entire course (as I was doing it). I can put it in a drive and send it to you, I don't want anyone else to feel the same feelings I did ever again in taking this class so let me know if you want them.
Just a pro-tip, use clankers if u suck at application like me. You need to be able to rationalize out of the box scenarios. Only way to get past that is to somehow understand the material deeper.
I'm so glad I never I gotta do ecology or any course with this same prof ever again. To bio majors who wanna take an environmental biology core electives, just go do a core elective with other env bio profs like Melles or McCarthy, they actually have healthy grade distributions. Don't subject yourself to Behavioural Ecology, even if you think the teaching is good the evaluation schemes or TAs will kill you inside.
That's my piece. Melles teaches population biology and the field trip course for field study and McCarthy teaches Ecotoxicology and Limnology which are still branches of or related to ecology. So you don't need to take things with the so-called pedagogy prof. People still do way better with Melles or McCarthy and I imagine there are no ecology riddles in these classes.
Anyway, I'm on to more dumb fun math shit ima embark on and love and no more ecology.
Biomed and biology have gotten huge revamps, but I'm just curious what other changes are coming. Are they actually gonna assign a competent prof to BCH361?
I love statistics and this is a random nuance I want to get some clarification on, because I like thinking of random stuff sometimes to more thoroughly understand things. In terms of residuals patterns in the title, I'm referring to residual plots (and I ran out of characters in the title, so I meant to say "residuals would show a parabolic pattern when plotted against corresponding x-values from the original data set"). In my mind, such a situation described in the title should mean that the Durbin-Watson statistic should be less than 2 (indicating positive autocorrelation), but I don't know if there'd be any interesting edge cases like the one described in this post's title, and no Googling comes up with a properly clarifying answer for me.
What kinda sick genius would come up with this?
Best of luck to you business students next year.
The truth is I've been in contact with the prof of CMTH480 for the past while, and I got straight confirmation an hour ago that there's no more tug o' war or anything like that. CMTH480 is actually fully confirmed to be running. No more "x amount of people need to enroll bs." I'm honestly, honestly really glad this time, and I feel so fucking happy. I'm also liking the course evaluation scheme (only 3 non-cumulative tests, and other things Iryna Manzhos is well-known for if anyone's taken CMTH380 with her before). The entire course has already been posted to D2L (all the lecture content and so forth), and if anyone is interested in any aspect about it you can feel free to DM me and inquire about how the course might be like. By math standards, it seems as if it'll be light and I get to learn and indulge in some upper level stats content. This, plus some other thematically relevant extra-curriculars and projects I have going for me this spring-summer, means this is going to be my most fun (academically) break ever. Especially since I'm still going to be productive on things I deeply care about.
Thank you to everyone who's enrolled.
