<p>I know it's bit unusual title... haha.</p>
<p>*Biology
I just finished my first year of biology as a freshman in undergrad (WashJeff). For General Biology I, I received A whereas for General Biology II, I received A-. I'm happy about both grades because I struggled with them, especially with General Biology II (see my other thread for my past..complaints :) ).
My goal is to review my biology book (8th edition by Campbell, et al) this summer to review and learn the chapters that we didn't cover, or ones that I did not have enough time to. I had to take Organic Chemistry at the same time this year (A/A-), so I ended up spending less time on Biology than what some of my peers did. Is this OK? At this point, I am not really looking for studying biology for MCAT section. I think that can wait till two-three months before MCAT. But, since biology is my weaker part of sciences (it always has been... I'm more of chemistry/math person), I want to build my foundation bit strongly. I was wondering if this was not waste of my time...I'm not working this summer anyway.</p>
<p>*English
As you can probably have guessed, I am not a native speaker. I received 640 on Verbal on SAT only because I studied for SAT. I recently finished Honors Composition, and am looking at hopefully B+ to A range (hopefully NOT B+..). Anyway, I still know that all of this mean nothing for MCAT Verbal section because it is very hard, and even the native speakers fail. So, I'm trying to read as much as possible, particularly in political science and philosophy -- two of my weakest areas. I'm just worried if I'm doing the right thing. Some of my peers at my institution (Washington and Jefferson College) say that you shouldn't worry about Verbal and focus on sciences. But, really, many fail in MCAT because of Verbal, and I am trying to prevent that by scheduling humanities and social sciences classes in my schedule (I'm Biochemistry Major) and reading as much as I can. It's just hard because the way native speakers in my school see MCAT is different than the way I perceive it (it'll be sinister... I know, especially for me).</p>
<p>*Goggle
Ha... I'm pretty clumsy at labs and I decided to sign up for lab assistant AND somehow got selected for General Biology I lab assistant. Goggle is part of my worries but I'll give bit details on my "clumsiness." I guess you can say that I am naturally more clumsy (not retarded haha) than other people. In my lab, I have worked slower than other people, and made more mistakes than other people. So, the whole idea of me working as a lab assistant seems to shock many of my peers.
But, this is something I realized yesterday while talking to my parents (I never really told them how I was in labs...ha). I wear glasses 24/7, and during the lab, I had to take them off and wear goggles. Naturally, I had to look at manual twice before I do anything, and considering that I was even slower than normal people, it probably made me even more slower. So, I wonder if wearing goggle that fits my glasses will make my situation better? Or do you think it had nothing to do with it?
My school really pushes researches/internships (probably how everyone does not do well on MCAT because they don't put much emphasis in it), and I feel that having lab assistant experience will help me. But, at the same time, I don't want to mess up extremely in the lab, and I am just asking for advices on how to be successful as a lab assistant. It's not something you see always on CC, but I'm trying to improve, and there are people here who are ten times better than me on lab to born with (yes... a sad truth).</p>
<p>P.S. I'm taking inorganic chemistry and physics next year.</p>