studyingbiochem

Biochemistry studyblr - Cressie - 20 years old - 2nd year biochemistry student at university in Switzerland - minor in chemistry

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Sunday study session with my bestie 💕

Returned to my dorm yesterday. I just couldn’t concentrate on my paper with my family and friends around. Hopefully I’ll finish it until the deadline.

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17-18.03.21 // 28-29/100 days of productivity

i keep forgetting to post oops i swear i have actually done some work over the past week😭

[anatomyandcappuccini]

So yesterday was the first day in 3 weeks I had to be at Uni for 8 am, and it snowed all night long and there was about 30 cm in the morning. The whole city was kind of paralyzed, and I had to get to my uni by feet but I was so genuinely happy!! 

Today it was snowing again so I changed my spot for studying :) 

[konoko]

[epistolaris]

27.05.2020 - 3:30pm

finals began on monday which means i’ll be sat at this desk for the next two weeks. wish me luck !

[archystudy]

14/03/19 - Some more technology notes and diagrams. A slow but productive day today! 

[jlzjlzjlz]

drinking hot milk with honey and revising my notes from today 

[einstetic]

do it for yourself do it for yourself do it for yourself do it for yourself do it for yourself do it for yourself do it for yourself do it for yourself

[cheapfilling]

college is catered towards the able bodied and able minded. school applauds people who can stay up all night, skip meals, and work endlessly. that kind of extreme contribution is expected. why are disabled people being squeezed out of academic institutions? why should I feel inferior because of some arbitrary and ridiculous standard?

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The undying truth.

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Not to mention, every college campus Ive ever been on is MADE of stairs and hills.

[captainamerica-inmiddleearth]

I tried to talk to one of my college professors about my ADHD once and he literally stopped me and said if I couldn’t handle it I shouldn’t be there

[deeplylearning]

I wanna give a shoutout to a guy who took analytical chemistry with the double lab as an elective at my college. And also happened to be in a wheelchair. He ended up dropping the class (which required the lab as part of the grade, not a separate course), and somehow I think it had something to do with accessibility.

All of our labs were recently renovated. So there’s little excuse. There was barely space for him to move around in the narrow aisle. And they didn’t have an area of the lab where he could comfortably work on his experiments. I mean, he’s sitting in a lab ffs. His chin was barely above the lab bench. You can’t safely work like that. So while he was still in the lab, he pretty much just watched his lab mates do the experiments. That’s not the point of labs, wouldn’t you say?

Not to mention that the wheelchair accessible entrances were… Not only scarce, but in random places. I know this because I worked in IT and had to bring carts with me around campus with heavy equipment. I’d get to a door that seems convenient only to realize there’s one single tiny step in the way. Sometimes I could lift up the front of the cart and manage it. But you can’t do that with a wheelchair.

Not to mention the hills. The place my campus was located is literally called “The Heights”. And all the cobblestone. So much cobblestone, everywhere. I’m sure that was a bitch for the small front wheels on his wheelchair. I had to push the IT cart either extremely slow or hold everything down so it wouldn’t bounce off.

I have so much respect for that guy. But I am also mad that my campus didn’t put any portion of those millions of dollars in renovations into making the campus more accessible.

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06.10.20 / i realize i haven’t introduced you to this little guy yet! i haven’t named him yet so suggestions are welcomed!! i’m finally reviewing n2 grammar today. do you ever find yourself procrastinating on something because you feel like you’ve got a long list of things you “have to do first” before feeling “ready?” that’s me with reviewing higher level grammar. i suppose it’s the perfectionist tendency. i’m jumping into it today though! no more circling around it. i hope your tuesday is going well so far ♡

[studynaire]

Some pictures from a very productive day today! How are you guys? I’m so excited to be back from my hiatus! 

[nervouspython]

14.07.2019 // 16:39

study space details ✨

I bought a new desk! IKEA came through with the minimalist aesthetic I’m after before I start my MA. My room feels cleaner, more organised, and I can’t wait to start working properly in September 🥰

find my instagram here ✨

[studyingbiochem]

How I memorise numbers

As a student in biochemistry I often end up having to memorise proteins that have names like Cdc65/Rab51/Sec61/eIF4E…

I’ve found a good technique to memorize them: I visualise the numbers as different colours!

1 is black, 2 is light blue, 3 is orange, 4 is light purple, 5 is red, 6 is yellow, 7 is dark green, 8 is and 9 is brown.

It’s probably better if you try to find which colour you personally associate each number with.

It really helps when you have to learn lots of different steps and all the proteins have weird names with numbers in them and none of them are in the right order. If you just remember “So first comes blue, then comes red” then you can work out for yourself that the first factor is *protein*2 then the second one is *protein*5.

For example, I can always remember Sec61 (an important translocator for transporting nascent proteins across the ER membrane) because I just have an image in my head of it as something yellow and black!

Visualising numbers as colours is something that people who experience synesthesia naturally do. I just “taught” myself how to do it aswell!

I hope this comes in handy for all you studyblrs :)

~ studyingbiochem

[studyingbiochem]

Hey guys ~

Currently studying for my exams which are in August (we spend our summer holidays in the library here 😍🤙 lol). I have an exam on a lecture called Enzymes which was probably my favourite course that I did in my master :) lots to learn though, good luck to everyone else studying 🌿☀️

[obovoid]

news report: survey says

me: what was the sample size? the distribution? the demographic??? this is meaningless. you could have asks two people in line at starbucks

[studyingatsunrise]

25/03/19 2:09pm | feeling the happiest and most loved I’ve ever felt… life is so amazing 🌻

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july 4th, 2019

no better time to start a new bullet journal than the midpoint of the year and america’s birthday :^)