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Thomas Edison:
Failing my first year. Probably should have stopped partying like it's Freshers when Freshers finished.
Still, I can pass by handing in work I've already got typed up in a months time, so I guess I'm not really failing. It's a really weird system.
Radical AC:
I've never had to take ethics. Does it try to instill a proper system of treatment regarding others, or is there a lot of relative thought? I'm pretty sure they do that for business ethics at least. </rimshot>
My computer science teacher tried to recruit me to his research lab when I went and asked about advising today. I'm getting a CS minor and a poly sci degree next spring. I started off as biochem and have that listed as my other major still, but want to finish it up somewhere else (better chance of getting into medschool). He wants me there because of my chem experience. I'm probably a little rusty in chem at this point, and am more worried about finishing up at this point, but you can never have too much research experience, right?
Avec:
I just had my orientation. I've never been so excited for something. I loved the campus, the people I met, and the stuff there'll be to do next year. I was really reluctant to make the five hour drive back.
Spluff:
it's actually astounding how impractical and utterly divorced from any sort of real world usage half of the shit they teach at university is
LTK:
--- Quote from: Radical AC on 14 Jun 2011, 17:01 ---I've never had to take ethics. Does it try to instill a proper system of treatment regarding others, or is there a lot of relative thought? I'm pretty sure they do that for business ethics at least. </rimshot>
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Well, it's certainly not about learning a set of rules by which to live. We basically have to learn about the most notable schools of thought regarding consequentialism and deontology, worldviews, intrinsic and extrinsic value and self-worth of things and how they relate to the laws in place about animal and human experimenting and genetic modification of plants. It's a life science approach, after all.
Here's an interesting fact: In the Netherlands, some degree of experimentation on human embryos is allowed, in cases of abortions with the mother's consent. Any form of experiment on primate embryos, however, is banned. Unconditionally. On the other hand, there are no regulations whatsoever regarding the use of non-primate embryos for experiments. You're given free rein as long as the ethics committee approves your use of the parent animals. That's just a big mess.
And there's a lot of discussion involved in the assignments. A lot. I think I've said more words on the subject of the work at hand to my fellow students in this course than in the rest of the year combined.
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