Survival Guide for Incoming UBC Students

Congratulations! You are accepted to UBC. Now what... Home for the next 4+ years Summer Survival Tips #1 - 5 (textbooks, choosing residence, course registration, popular UBC unofficial sites, preparing this summer) Popular...

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Summer Survival Guide (#1-5) for Incoming UBC Students

DO NOT buy your textbooks until the first day of class, and definitely not from UBC Bookstore  Even if you are extremely eager, ask a friend who has previously taken the course if it is worth buying the textbook....

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MICB 322 & MICB 323

MICB 322 (with Jennifer Sibley) Course Taken: M 1pm, W Lab (September, 2014 - December, 2014) Format: The course is pretty relaxed, and Ms. Sibley is more concerned about everyone understanding concepts than getting "perfect" results. There are not a lot of lab reports except for the couple at the end. Be prepared to have to go...

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MICB 325

MICB 325 (with Dr. Thomas Beatty) Course Taken: MWF 10am (January, 2015 - April, 2015) Format: Flipped-classroom style where readings are posted beforehand and lectures are devoted to iClickers. The first half of the course is devoted to essentially understanding plasmid maps, cross-overs and blue-white screening. The second half...

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MICB 418

MICB 418 (with Dr. John Smit) Course Taken: T/Th 11am (January, 2015 - April, 2015) Format: Traditional lectures where he does not use slides or post notes, and he simply talks and students have to take notes. Dr. Smit does record all his lectures in case you miss a day or you missed a setence, and provide packages of all the...

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CPSC 301

CPSC 301 (with Dr. Ian Mitchell) Course Taken: T/Th 9:30am (January, 2015 - April, 2014) Format: Lectures are relatively slow-paced, and only goes through "tricky" aspects rather than teaching how to code. All his lecture slides are posted on his website. The course first uses Scratch (https://scratch.mit.edu/) and then uses Python...

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MICB 301 & MICB 302

MICB 301 (with Dr. William Mohn) Course Taken: MWF 10am (September, 2014 - December, 2014) Format: Lectures with topical readings + group assignments, and one bioinformatics project. He has a lot of iClicker questions throughout the term for participation marks (no answers posted). Dr. Mohn writes his own notes and the class uses...

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BIOC 302

BIOC 302 (with Dr. Justin Lee, Dr. Robert Maurus, Guest Lecturer: Dr. Adeleke Aguda) Course Taken: MWF 8am (January, 2015 - April, 2015) Format: Dr. Lee lectures about central metabolism (carbohydrates, amino acids) during the first half of the course, and Dr. Maurus lectures about DNA during the second half of the course. Dr....

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