While cramming

[tarigwaemir]

Lowell House, on the Feast of St. Frumentius

Question: why is it that when I finally get into the rhythm of studying and realize, "Wow, this material is really interesting," and start wanting to understand it, it's already nearly time for the exam? I mean, why can't it happen earlier, say a week before, so I actually would have time to pin it down in my head and hammer it in?

In other words, my MCB midterm is less than an hour away. -_- On the other hand, I finally understand the significance of locus control regions. Despite the general conviction that I'm going to fail, I still have to say that I love this course, with an almost startling passion. I mean, these mechanisms are beautiful, simple models that are flexible enough to permit the combinatorial variations necessary for complex patterns of gene expression. I try to visualize it: this busy nucleus bustling with enzymes and factors, the millions of interactions that must take place every microsecond, and the slow realization of a larger global structure (the nucleus is not a chaotic bag of tangled chromatin; there is spatial organization even at this level). It's kind of dazzling and overwhelming all at once. *_* I feel like a child reaching for a blinding sun that seems to hang in the sky just out of its reach.

Or maybe that's just the cold medicine talking. >_>

Yours &c.

Comments

[faeryetale.livejournal.com]

Argh midterms suck. GOOD LUCK!