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When I was an undergrad, I had to take a calculus class. It was not difficult for me, but I can't forget what the professor said in class that I thought was amazing and inspired me in other courses...
one of the hardest concepts in cell biology for undergrads is understanding DNA topology. How a right handed twist can become a left handed interwound writhe, then taken up by a toroidal writhe whe...
One of the best courses I had in ecology was an Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) tropical ecology field course in Costa Rica. While being in this beautiful country didn't hurt, it was the s...
As a young graduate student learning to write fellowship proposals, I took a course in which the main assignment was to write a research proposal. This involved several rounds of peer-review and pr...
As a STEM learner I relied heavily on creating organizational charts of the subject at hand, plus a fair amount of memorization. Since I was an undergraduate in a very different environment (Spain...
The first difficult block I remember getting in college was understanding moments in statics. What was counterintuitive for me is that moments (or torques) are represented as vectors perpendicular ...
I took a graduate-level bioinformatics course at UC Davis, which had a lab component in which we learned basic Unix and Perl programming skills. This was a great lab, which incorporated aspects of ...
While I was an undergraduate I did an honours type project for which I had to produce a paper modelled like a scientific journal article. A postdoc of the professor I was working under read over on...
