Some rather nice warm fuzzies this week - I had no less than a half dozen fellow classmates come up to me and thank me for posting videos; thanks in turn, guys, for letting me use you to force myself to put in the effort.
BIO 232 Week 4 Lecture Notes
BIO 232 @ PCC Week 4 Lecture Flashcards
BIO 232 @ PCC Week 4 Lab Flashcards
Another new tool to share with you this week, a webservice by the name of Keepvid that will allow you to pull down .FLVs or .MP4s of youtube videos. Since Itunes can recognize MP4s and let you download them to your Ipod/Iphone/Ipad, this could be a mighty handy way to take your studying with you. Also, as a side note, the new (well, new to me) video camera came in this week which means the videos are now in HD (TM) [Yes, really.] Don't neglect to swap to a higher resolution when you're watching, if your device can support it; it'll make the text and figures a heck of a lot easier to make out.
BIO 232 Week 3 Lecture Notes
BIO 232 @ PCC Lecture Flashcards
BIO 232 @ OIT Lab Flashcards
BIO 232 @ PCC Lab Flashcards
Week 2 is done, and thus it's time to post the bits and pieces. As a side note, if you want to just grab any of the videos as an mp3 to listen to (like the lecture this week that's really just a static image with audio), the website http://www.youtube-mp3.org/ will convert any youtube video for you for free. I'm not sure yet if I'll do a separate flashcard set for this week's lab, as it's a combination of old and new info - if I do, it'll be up in a day or two. In the meantime, there's a link to the flashcards I did for OIT that have most of the material, and our wonderful classmate Ida has done a quick video of her own for the eye here.
P.S. Sorry about the 10 separate videos for the lab; still working with the overheating problem on my Canon - an alternate video solution should be available by next week's class.
BIO 232 Week 2 Lecture Notes
BIO 232 Week 2 Lecture Flashcards
BIO 232 @ OIT Flashcards for eye
BIO 232 @ PCC Week 2 Lab flashcards
And we're back... somewhat. Last term, in BIO 231 at PCC, I wasn't very good at all about finding people and reasons to study, other than staying on campus from dawn to dusk on Tuesdays and Thursdays. This term, I'm trying to reach out a bit more and offer resources to other students again, thus prompting me to generate some more. We'll see how that goes, but it really helped before. I did throw together a number of new flashcards and such last term for 231, and if that stuff would be useful to you, you're welcome to look through the existing flashcards on Flashcard Exchange here. Also, for those of you just joining the show, don't forget to pick up an application called "Mental Case" for just a few bucks if you own an iPhone/iPod touch, which will allow you to study my notes and thousands of others offline. I've mentioned it a couple of times before, and I still love it and use it like crazy. Everyone else, sorry - you'll need a net connection to study unless you want to use the printing function on the website and a whole stack of cards.
In any case, here are some resources for our first week back.
PCC Bio 232 Week 1 Lecture Notes
PCC Bio 232 Week 1 Lecture Flashcards
PCC Bio 232 Week 1 Lecture Flashcards
OIT Bio 232 Week 1 Lab Flashcards (yep, these are a recycle, but I don't see any point in making a new copy that'll be 90% of the same stuff, especially when Professor Christie has a large number of alternative study materials here that'll work just as well)
PCC Bio 232 Week 1 Lab Videos are below - apparently the Canon 7d that I was shooting with (along with all of the rest of that product line) has an issue with overheating when used for video for more than a few minutes, so I'm working on an alternative method for recording - we'll see. Sorry about the horribly jerky quality - video isn't my thing, by choice - I just decided to record on the spur of the moment. Alternately, one of my fellow students has her own videos of the session here.
I suppose it's about time to give anyone that is still following this blog an update, since I've been neglecting it for a few months now. My study partners kind of petered out mid-term, apparently due to some internal social conflict of some sort, so I'm afraid I stopped bothering to post. Bad Josh, no cookie.
Long story short, I finished up the term with final grades landing at - Media Production A, Chem Lab B, Chem Lecture C, Anatomy B, Tai Chi D (Grade based purely on attendance... and migraines/side effects did not help me there) - weighted GPA for the MIT application landed at 3.08. I found out at the end of June that that simply wasn't enough as "this was a very competitive year", according to my advisor. Bleh.
So, after pausing a minimum amount of time to be devastated, Eden, Cassie, and I headed down to Klamath Falls to pick up all the stuff I'd left behind, and I'm trying to move forward. I'll be staying in Vancouver and going back to PCC. I'm planning to retake pretty much every class that the application committee will look at next year in hopes of improving my grades and keeping the material semi-fresh in my brain. We'll see how things go, eh? For anyone that's interested, my fall schedule is posted below.
Oh, as a secondary thought, I've made some fairly large dietary changes over the past month, which has had the positive effect of largely muting the horrible migraines I've been suffering from over the last year. It's not a solved problem, but it's a hell of a lot closer to livable. Hopefully it'll help to let me concentrate in school as well.
CRN: 46575 - Digital Photography - ART 140 - 0 Status: RW Credits: 3.000 Campus: Cascade Campus
Time Days Where Date Range Instructors
9:00 AM - 11:50 AM TR Moriarty Arts Humanities Bldg 217 21-SEP-2010 - 09-DEC-2010 TBA
Fall 2010 Total Credit Hours: 16.000
CRN: 41919 - Human Anatomy & Physiology I - BI 231 - 0 Status: RW Credits: 4.000 Campus: Cascade Campus
Time Days Where Date Range Instructors
6:00 PM - 7:20 PM TR Jackson Hall 104 21-SEP-2010 - 09-DEC-2010 Salti (P)E-mail
CRN: 43050 - Human Anat & Phy I (Lab) - BI 231 - 0 Status: RW Credits: 0.000 Campus: Cascade Campus
Time Days Where Date Range Instructors
7:30 PM - 8:50 PM TR Jackson Hall 219 21-SEP-2010 - 09-DEC-2010 Salti (P)E-mail
CRN: 44721 - General Chemistry (Lab) - CH 104 - 0 Status: RW Credits: 0.000 Campus: Cascade Campus
Time Days Where Date Range Instructors
3:00 PM - 5:50 PM T Jackson Hall 214 21-SEP-2010 - 07-DEC-2010 Hart (P)E-mail
CRN: 40094 - General Chemistry - CH 104 - 0 Status: RW Credits: 5.000 Campus: Cascade Campus
Time Days Where Date Range Instructors
12:30 PM - 2:20 PM TR Jackson Hall 104 21-SEP-2010 - 09-DEC-2010 Hart (P)E-mail
TBA TR TBA 21-SEP-2010 - 09-DEC-2010 Hart (P)E-mail
CRN: 41080 - Introduction to C - CS 133U - 0 Status: RW Credits: 4.000 Campus: Distance Learning
Time Days Where Date Range Instructors
TBA Distance Learning LEARN 20-SEP-2010 - 11-DEC-2010 Nautiyal (P)E-mail
Dr. McVay has posted her notes and study guide for the entire term already. Since many of you are studying with Dr. Li, you may not have access to this resource through Blackboard, so here's a link to the entire thing, zipped. Enjoy!
BIO 233 A&P Unit 1 Flashcards
BIO 233 A&P Lab 2 Flashcards
CHEM 101 Flashcards - Significant Figures Drill by kwedding9
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