studyingbiochem

Sunday study session with my bestie 💕

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

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!! 

27.05.2020 - 3:30pm

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.

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 🥰

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 :)

july 4th, 2019