Uni Life - Blog Posts
let's work, brothers
now it's the end and I need to seriously push myself and study more, more
Hey! Im still here
Hello people! Lately i been doing the usual of studying and so on. This semester we started a few new classes like pharmacology and im pretty excited as well as i am scared of it!
On the other hand, i continue to go through the lab work with a few DNA extractions from blood and buffy coat, pretty fun if you let me say!
Good luck everyone!
Morning studying
Today’s morning i had started the parasitology module in my course of microbiology. I can’t help but being extremely excited of this even if its not “face-to-face classes” but rather recorded ones. Currently im interested on doing a master in parasitology in the future, so this might be the first date in this relationship, haha.
ps: helminths are very curious to see, although I am grateful to not be responsible for taking the diagnostic tests, but rather analyzing them.
qPCR and extraction of DNA
This morning I had the opportunity to practice DNA extraction from a blood sample from a South hospital. It was a rather nice experience since I wasn't anxious at all, I had overcome my fear of micropipette.
Nanodrop practice
Yesterday I had the opportunity to practice with some DNA samples in the nanodrop, so tonight after finishing my duties as student council I decided to transcribe my notes from the lab.
Studying Physiology 🩸🫁
Tomorrow I have this blood respiratory system test so lately, I have just practicing some questions as a way to review the content of the unit
Wish me luck!
Finally autumn has come here.
Who am i?
Hello! I just wanted to introduce myself.
I'm Apollo, 20 y/o and currently studying biotech in the healthcare area. I'm a research enthusiast and currently working on a historical paper on medical education in my country.
The subjects I am taking this semester are…
Public Health 🏥
Pharmacology 💊
Patophysiology 🫀
Molecular Technologies applied to diagnosis (on lab) 🥼
Nowadays
Besides the paper I'm writing with my professor, I'm visiting a genetic Lab to sweeten my motor skills in PCR and other techniques.
🥼🎧🗒️
And I have already finished the following subjects
Anatomy
Physiology cellular and neuro
Biochemistry
Physics
Math
Histology and embryology
Genetics
Biology cellular and molecular
Chemistry
Applied Biochemistry (lab work)
Immunology
Physiology of the systems
Microbiology
Study lately
Might just tryna romanticize my life by recording myself studying and putting candles while doing so, not much.
having friends doing arts degree is crazy when you’re doing science;
they’re over here drawing little characters and I’m trying to do maths to not fail my lab exam tomorrow
18/01/2025
It’s always interesting how, whenever I prepare an exam, my mind is always curious and needs to know more about the topic i’m studying. Am I studying literature? I wanna know more about that specific author and what they wrote. Am I studying anthropology? I wanna read an essay about a specific culture or the impact that some things have on society.
Right now I’m preparing a linguistic exam and the first thing I did yesterday when I entered into the library is borrowing a book about sociolinguistic, even though for me studying linguistic is a pain in the ass; but, despite that, I still wanna know how the use of language is correlated to gender, provenance or even social class.
Studying at uni is not easy. There have been times where i just wanted to give up, and sometimes I still wanna do it, not because I’m not good enough, but because of the amount of exams I still have to prepare.
Studying at uni is not easy, but then I force myself to do it and I rediscover the beauty of what I’m studying, I fall in love with the exam I’m preparing.
What I understood today is that there are some subjects that, even though are hard to deal with, they worth the studying, they worth the love. They worth the patience.
Linguistic is my odi et amo, something that makes me lose hope most of the times but also makes me wonder. And sometimes you need to stick with these specific subjects, even though they’re not easy to understand. Sometimes you need to stick with those specific sparks these subjects give you, protect them and find in them the reason to keep going and reach your goals.
thursday, jan 30th
guys lookit this salad i made. normalize unaesthetic food pictures. i lowkey also ate so much deep fried food today. my lunch (is it still lunch if i ate at 3pm) was onion rings+fries with queso and ranch (so basically an oil rig) and my salad had some more of that breaded tofu i made yesterday but cut up.
not that it's wrong/bad to eat deep fried food. life is too short to regret.
i also am so cooked for my instrumentation class right now. we begged and pleaded to get an extension and prof gave us 1 DAY. not even the weekend. it's not like he's going to grade it before next week's exam...so why the rush.
me in circuit jail:
modeling quiz was ok. i finished it! so therefore i successfully served cunt.
n e ways. i'm going to crank out as much as i can before i need to switch gears and do stuff for my instrumentation lab tomorrow.
tasks:
instrumentation homework. just do it. ✅ (big slay 4/6 problems done 2 days before the due date)
instrumentation pre-lab lecture. ✅ (guys this was so much shorter than what i'd thought it'd be)
optional: research proposal (fook dat im going to bed)
🍵: osmanthus tea.
🎧: Brahms Symphony 4, Beethoven Symphony 7 🤤