This Class Review

When I first signed up for this class, I was expecting a much more linear outline for the course. Like most courses, read a book, attend lectures, take test. Fortunatly, this class certainly branched out from the typical lecture schedule. I really enjoyed the freedom of being able to pick and choose topics to research and have a major focus throughout your research. This sort of freedom was very beneficial to a certain extent. The field of molecular biology and the study of molecular machines is much to broad to base a single 2 hour a week class upon. There was just so much information that wasnt even tapped into in this course, which made learning knew concepts difficult. My suggestion would be to have more specific projects that students could research. For example, from reading the description of the class, I would have enjoyed looking into the details behind hydrogen cars and AIDs tests at the molecular level. I think with this knowledge it would be possible to extrapolate to new ideas and projects that could later be the basis of a company; which would have been the euntraprenuership study of this course. Although i do not expect to find the cure to cancer in my First Year Seminar I would hope to at least walk away with future ideas for studying molecular machines. I only wish there were more guidelines to speficy what exactly we are supposed to be doing in these papers. Case in point; I am a little confused as to what exactly I should be writing this last paper on. Nothing a little coffee and some time in the 24 hour room cant fix. Maybe i will turn this post into a paper...who knows.