Hey readers!
*flails a bit* Welcome to Monica’s pre-finals finals week! It’s nuts, and I need to write some papers. But as I was thinking about this fact and the blog yesterday, it occurred to me that when I was high schooler with no older siblings (I still don’t have any older siblings), I didn’t have a good grasp on what college-level paper writing looked like. Thus, for this blog, I present you with the introductions to one piece of writing I have done for each of my classes up to this point, especially highlighting final papers. (All of the classes which have papers, of course, as I can’t upload pset and lab problems since those questions are reused in class from year to year.) Hopefully you’ll find it interesting—I know I’m a little scared to see what I’ve gotten up to over the years :).
First, to orient you, because goodness knows I can hardly keep track of what has happened over four years…
4-Year Plan (except it’s not a plan anymore! Yay :).)
Note: The official names of these classes are online—I’m listing the common terms :).
First-year (Fall on the left, Spring on the right)
| CHEM 120: Intro to Inorganic Chem | BISC 113: Intro to Organismal Bio |
| MATH 116: Calc II | BISC 112: Intro to Molecular Bio |
| WRIT 125-25: Music and the Ineffable | NEUR 100: Intro to Neuro |
| HIST 272: Political Economy of South East Asia | CAMS 105: Intro to Cinema and Media Studies |
| (audit) EDUC 216: Education, Society, and Social Policy |
Sophomore
| MATH 215: Math for the Sciences | CS 112: Matlab |
| NEUR 200: Neurons, Networks, and Behavior | EXTD 120: Making a Difference Through Engineering |
| CHEM 211: Organic Chem I | CHEM 212: Organic Chem II |
| PSYCH 101: Intro to Psych | NEUR 320: Vision and Art |
Junior
| MATH 205: Multivariable Calc | 18.05: Intro to Probability and Statistics |
| CS 332: Computational Vision | 9.40: Intro to Neural Computation |
| PHYS 107: Intro to Mechanics | 8.02: Intro to Electricity and Magnetism |
| ENG 203: Short Narrative | ENG 301: Advanced Fiction |
| PSYCH 217: Cognition | |
| NEUR 250: Research |
Senior
| NEUR 300: Neuroscience Capstone | 6.036: Intro to Machine Learning |
| 9.66J: Computational Cognitive Science | 18.06: Linear Algebra |
| CS 230: Data Structures | |
| 9.71: Functional MRI of the Human Brain | |
| NEUR 360: Thesis | NEUR 370: Thesis |
And onwards we go! Year 1.
Year 2:
Year 3:
And finally, Year 4:
Work in progress 🙂
A college career still in the making– it’s always amusing to see what has changed and what hasn’t, and the evolution of interests and a science major. Until next time, readers– happy December!
Monica