Heya folks *flash, rumble*


*Grrrrr*
I'm feeling rather aggressive right now. The weather is bad, it's grey and cloudy, I didn't get all the books I planned to get in the library...

I wished I had one of these icons with rolling wild eyes, getting redder and redder until it nearly explodes and then racing back and forth from left to right. That'd mirror my current mood - I'm steaming!

I had the most boring endocrinology lecture today. And it's such an interesting subject! But I got so darn jittery because this guy wouldn't stop being b o r i n g ! I was just wasting my time. I hate not paying attention to my lecturers. And I feel sorry for them if students leave the lecture before half time. But he was t e r r i b l e ! Poor guy, said his intention was to bring us closer to understanding and liking proteine structures - their TRUE structures. Meaning, alpha-helices and stuff displayed in screaming colourful animations for example the rotating insuline receptor. C'mon man! I've seen g o o d animations from actin-myosine models where you see the atp binding and the process of contraction. But a turning threedimensional insuline receptor? We already HAD that in SEVERAL lectures. Duh, he thought he was the first to show us. Do these professors, if he even was one, never communicate? Or ask others what they do?
Anyway, fact is he was in the wrong study. He has to go to the biochemistry students, I'm sure they love the original proteine structures. But honestly you...person...! I'm studying meds, not chemistry. I believe it's sufficient for us to know how many domains there are and if there is a lipid anchor or a couple of hydrophobic alpha-helices, and that there are reactive centres for this and that. I don't need to remember it in the exact molecular build! Truly not! kay, so his intention was good, just maybe too eager. Well, th worst thing was that, before saying how important it is to love the original structure, he was referring to transmitter molecules as pink potatoes!!!!!!
Yes, they were displayed as pink ovals, but if you try to make people love the original structures, you don't begin with calling any molecules p o t a t o e s. Either be the molecular-model-crack or not. Do not mix!
Anyway, I stayed but got very nervous to the end. What a day.

Posted: Mo - April 26, 2004 at 07:00 Uhr      

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