stayin' alive

Found myself seriously struggling with Molecular and Genetic Basis for Disease after yesterday's lecture. I completely did not know what he was talking about. Granted, he was a pretty crap lecturer who digressed and hardly made any sense because he just flashed some pictures and talked about things not related to the slides. Also, he stood at the back of the class and talked from there, which is really rather disconcerting. Do I look at him or what??? He was right behind me and he spoke with a Steve Irwin type of hick accent, coupled with a booming voice.

Contemplated switching subjects to do Developmental and Cellular Genetics, but um, that was *WORSE*. I sat in a lecture and I might as well as have sat in an aerospace engineering class because that was how bad it was. Felt quite upset about this whole not-getting-anything shit, but this is life, man.. If you knew everything you can just go and kill yourself because it's going to get boring.

Operation Suck-It-Up Part I begins with a trip to the library to take out the Immunology text that was the recommended text meant for the subject. It really is a shit textbook. It starts talking about a certain component in pg 6 and does not explain what the component is until page 253. I mean, what the hell is up with that!? Now I know why the lecturer is crap... It's because he uses a crap reference text ha ha ha and his slides were based on 3rd edition... The newest is 6th. Talk about being updated :P

Operation Suck-It-Up Part II sees me going through the basics I've done in NYP and I gradually feel the knowledge seep back into my brain, thank God. I didn't even bother getting up to go to the lecture this morning, because 1) I hardly copy anything down cause he talks at the speed of a machine gun firing and 2) I don't know wtf I'm copying if I am copying- mostly I just sit there totally mystified, the lecture might as well as have been conducted in Greek.

Now that I've gotten a better idea of the subject and stopped wondering why the hell I don't understand anything at the lecture (stop expecting people to lay things out for you + ignore the crap lecturer), I'm feeling heaps more confident.

Me FTW.

Anyways, I've been cooking random stuff: peanut butter cookies, chicken rice, this baked... casserole kind of thing.... I'm going to cook some fried rice tonight hahaha. Ooooh I should make chawanmushi soon... Need to get stuff to chuck inside, though...

I WILL LEAVE YALL WITH A PICTURE OF MY COOKIES WHICH I RANDOMLY MADE ONE NIGHT AT 10.50PM.