http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/freshfaces/ A journal of new students at the College of Natural Resources, UC Berkeley en Copyright 2009 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:22:11 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.38 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Recently, I was pleasantly surprised by Alex Tellez's spontaneous comment on my blog about my daring attempts at drinking green liquids for lunch. It was quite an honor that he took time out of his busy schedule to read my random- most oftentimes crazy- posts! Since he was the sole person responsible for motivating me to change my sodium enriched canned foods and take outs eating habits, I felt he deserved a long detailed explanation of the many times I stared at my revolting green smoothies- thinking how in the world am I going to force myself to swallow another... http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/freshfaces/2009/11/green_smoothies.php http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/freshfaces/2009/11/green_smoothies.php Amelia Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:22:11 -0800 So earlier on tuesday, our class headed to SF chinatown to tour medicinal shops aka GSI Chris' shopping spree. Today there was an demonstration of making powdered extract from the spoils and sampling of the asian medicinal patches. My mom and grandma used to use them, but I was never allowed to touch them. Today-I stuck three of them on me and got cupped! Nyah nyah. Here are some of the things I sneaked out of lab: analgesic patches, mushroom tea and cold pills are to be had!... http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/freshfaces/2009/11/things_from_tod.php http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/freshfaces/2009/11/things_from_tod.php Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:33:23 -0800 So this semester, I decided to apply for URAP and looking at our NST department, I was in luck. There were many new projects that were available this year and I quickly applied. Along with four other undergrads, we got accepted in the Vulpe lab! I'm so excited to be a part of the research that we're doing. Let me introduce to you what daphnas are. They are nicknamed" water fleas," because these little transparent "bugs" can swim around really fast in the water. We are using these daphnias for toxicity assays in hopes for the long run goal: testing... http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/freshfaces/2009/11/working_with_da.php http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/freshfaces/2009/11/working_with_da.php Casey Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:22:58 -0800 I'm pretty sure you guys are tired of hearing about my indecisiveness, but I just wanted to say that I've decided what to do! Well, for now, at least. I'm definitely not going to graduate early so that I can spend my time wisely at Berkeley. For next semester, I'm already signed up to take PMB C112/L (General Microbiology and Lab) and ESPM 12 (Bioethics). The only problem is that on Thursday, the bioethics lecture goes from 2-3:30 and the microbio lab lecture goes from 3-4 pm. I really hope one of them is webcast, but I highly doubt it.... http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/freshfaces/2009/10/final_decision.php http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/freshfaces/2009/10/final_decision.php Victoria Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:15:49 -0800 Courtesy of Keiko O.... http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/freshfaces/2009/10/breakfast_of_ch.php http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/freshfaces/2009/10/breakfast_of_ch.php Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:30:52 -0800 I thought I had decided not to graduate early, but now I'm on the fence, again. I talked to my mom about it and she said it was my decision, but that I could get a job and save money for medical school if I do graduate early. I'm basically going to be living in a box and eating ramen everyday in medical school. :( Hopefully not, but close enough. Anyways, I've been trying to plan out my schedule for my remaining semesters. I still have to take PMB C112/L (General Microbiology), MCB 104 (Genetics, Genomics, and Cell Bio), MCB... http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/freshfaces/2009/10/decisions_part.php http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/freshfaces/2009/10/decisions_part.php Victoria Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:31:28 -0800 As I'm sure you all noticed, the storm on Tuesday was horrible, so why am I so glad it rained? Because mushrooms are popping up now! I'm in California Mushrooms, an upper division elective for Microbial Biology, and we have to collect mushrooms for our personal collection to turn in. We were supposed to have 50 points of our collection by this coming Monday, but it's been postponed to the following Monday. I was totally stressed out before Tuesday since it hadn't rained for weeks and the only mushrooms I could find were little brown mushrooms (LBMs) and they're extremely... http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/freshfaces/2009/10/thank_heavens_i.php http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/freshfaces/2009/10/thank_heavens_i.php Victoria Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:39:43 -0800 Answer:... http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/freshfaces/2009/10/how_do_you_stud.php http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/freshfaces/2009/10/how_do_you_stud.php Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:45:26 -0800 As you all know, Telebears season is upon us, again. Be sure to make an appointment with your advisor and figure out which classes to take next semester. Remember that some classes are only offered either spring or fall semester, so plan wisely. You don't want to have to stay an extra semester because you have to take that one upper division course requirement. So I met with my advisor, Trey, this past Friday. After looking over my DARS report, he told me that I only had 5 more courses to take in order to graduate! The only problem is... http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/freshfaces/2009/10/decisions_decis.php http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/freshfaces/2009/10/decisions_decis.php Victoria Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:36:16 -0800 Before skipping school to attend the SFO Breast Cancer 3Day, I spammed all my Professors and GSIs with emails excusing my absence from class and to make up any work that I will miss. Let me just say...Boy was that a stressful process!!! Juggling the workload I had at that time with deadlines meant for two weeks later is something I never want to repeat. Without the accommodating and understanding responses from my Professors and GSIs, I would have forfeited about one fourth of my final grades. So THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU Berkeley teachers. As part of our... http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/freshfaces/2009/10/breast_cancer_e.php http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/freshfaces/2009/10/breast_cancer_e.php Amelia Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:51:10 -0800 It's amazing how a head cold can severely reduce one's willingness to go to class. It's already enough of a struggle to wake up at 7 am for an 8 am class, especially when it's cold outside. But when you've got to wake up early, and you've got a killer sinus headache, going to that class may just not happen. It's so much easier to stay in bed after all. In college, being sick really sucks. Chances are there isn't anyone there to make you soup, and do your laundry and make tea for you. You're essentially on your own... http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/freshfaces/2009/10/the_sniffles.php http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/freshfaces/2009/10/the_sniffles.php Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:21:44 -0800 I completely forgot we got Telebears this month and lovely Trey reminds us GPB kids to sign up for an appointment with him in order to obtain an advisor's code. Originally he was just the advisor for our small GPB community, but with budget cuts, he has to help take on the MCB kids too. I got mine super early, I don't actually sign up for classes until the end of the month but I just came in this morning and grabbed my code and missed the cavalcade of last-minute panic. Poor Trey has to meet 400 souls the week... http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/freshfaces/2009/10/thank_god_for_t.php http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/freshfaces/2009/10/thank_god_for_t.php Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:00:14 -0800 It's my first protest! Check out the activism:... http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/freshfaces/2009/09/walk_dammit.php http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/freshfaces/2009/09/walk_dammit.php Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:59:51 -0800 Washing hair and academic semesters are similar. Semesters always go through the same set of stages, always in the same order. Washing your hair always goes in the same order, just like the academic year. There's the beginning stage (or as I like to call it, the "I-can't-believe-that-90-minute-lecture-just-flew-by" stage) where class is exciting (because it's new) and since it's the beginning of the year there aren't many assignments. The lax atmosphere of this portion of the semester often causes student to ignore homework and studying because they're too busy catching up with friends or getting back into the academic swing... http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/freshfaces/2009/09/lather_rinse_re.php http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/freshfaces/2009/09/lather_rinse_re.php Molecular Toxicology Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:53:44 -0800 For my birthday weekend, I decided to sleep over for 4 nights straight (Sept 19-22). I eventually got tired of wasting at least 1.5hrs commuting everyday. Not only I waste time, BART also costs me $6.10 which I can spend for dinner. Today, after my 4-5:30pm PS157 lecture, I went back straight to my friends' apartment. It feels refreshing to be able to relax after a long day instead of waiting one more hour to get back home. For these reasons, I miss living around campus.... http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/freshfaces/2009/09/sleeping_over.php http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/freshfaces/2009/09/sleeping_over.php John Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:24:02 -0800