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[GreenFroggie]

That does make sense....if the subject is something broad (like, mine is microbes and body defenses) then they need to take from different disciplines. You're only doing the work for one subject's worth, therefore you only get the credit for it...

Not really. As we still have/had to do 2 pracs a week and 5 lectures where each unit on it's own is 1 prac and 3 lectures a week. So that was another day of classes on top of a normal full time load. Plus having to do assignments for each component, like write up 2 prac reports a week instead of just one...

Apparently they are making it 30 points next year instead of 20 for both which makes it a bit more fair with the final points...

[Thaluikhain]

Mills and Boons books.   

[Mephistopheles]

haha i was like, what the hell is mills and boons....

then i looked it up

poor thally.

betcha secretly love it

[Thaluikhain]

Eh, all teh guys have to be billionaire Greeks or Spaniards, all the girls are gold-diggers.

And I was only reading the blurbs while printing stickers to apply to the spine.

My favourite is about the woman that never thought she'd fall in love, until meeting a mechanic from the wrong side of the tracks.  But will their relationship survive his terrible secret?  He's really (*gasp*) a secret millionaire.

And when you hit menopause this will be the only thing you ever read, Bee.

[Mez]

Not necessarily.  I hit menopause a while ago, as I'm sure you all vividly remember, and I have never, ever read a Mills and Boon book.  Ten thousand plus other books, but not those.

You are actually studying Mills and Boon at TAFE, Thal?  I would be inclined to say "unbelievable", but I went to TAFE for two years myself not long ago.   

[Thaluikhain]

I was only reading the blurbs while printing stickers to apply to the spine.

I have never, ever read a Mills and Boon book.

Thatr you remember.

[Mez]

I think I'd remember.  I've been avoiding bodice-rippers all my life.

AND you neatly avoided my question, Thal.  ARE you studying them?  I've heard they've become a lot racier in the last couple of decades - a comparative look at their content may well be worth the exercise - as long as it's YOU doing it, and not me.

[Thaluikhain]

ARE you studying them?

I was only reading the blurbs while printing stickers to apply to the spine.

[grooviechickie]

Mills and Boon books are interesting to read. A bit of fun and frivolity when you're on a long plane/train trip etc. They seem to tap into a market, that's for sure.

[Mez]

And I was only reading the blurbs while printing stickers to apply to the spine.

*looks embarrassed*  You'd never think I was a proof reader, would you?  Sorry Thal.

[Mephistopheles]

today i am studying human genetic diseases

[GreenFroggie]

Cool. Hopefully you get an easy one (royal family inbreeding ftw) in the exam

I have fungi. they want us to remember all of teh fungi and the diseases they cause. All I can remember atm is tinea. Micro fail. 

[Mephistopheles]

lol this isn't first year genetics

its more like i hope i get something easy like 'give evidence for the genetic basis of cancer' or 'give a method of testing for huntington's disease and show what a positive and negative test would be like'..

[Mephistopheles]

hmmm fungi... is claviceps purpurea a fungi?

that one's funny... i saw goody proctor consorting with the devil!!! -gasp-

cryptococcus neoformans freaks me out coz of that case study they showed in the lecture where the guy got his arm amputated from a cat scratch...

[GreenFroggie]

No idea. lol, and I cbf googling them. We were only given 6 examples to focus on, and then they said it was mostly the dermatopytes, (trichphytan, microsporum, etc) and the actual tinea species that would make it onto the exam if they chose to do it, but then they changed their mind so I have no idea what to focus on! All I know are the main ones, such as ringworm, as that one is easy. But we have a choice of 1/2 questions so i'll keep my fingers crossed that there is one I can answer properly....

Ive had ringworm before...payoff for having cats.

I dont think we covered cryptococcus, as 2/3 of the lectures were on bacterial stuff not fungi and they never give you enough info!