I received an email from KAIST IRO mentioning that they will be sending me the acceptance letter sometime next week.  Hooray!  I think I can fly by end December, provided that I can get my visa done by then and find an air ticket during this peak season.

Well, hope that my sister is willing to sponsor me a ticket on Singapore Airlines.  I can fly non-stop to Seoul, which will be more comfortable and lesser travelling time required.

I am still wondering how I am going to bring all the luggage with me from Seoul to Daejeon.  I have to bring lots of winter clothings, which are going to weigh a bit, and my study materials (notes and probably 1 or 2 textbooks).  The books are enough to kill.

About my project, it is on "Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell line engineering for improved culture performance for therapeutic protein production...accomplished by engineering of molecular chaperones to improve the cell specific productivity and to investigate its role in apoptosis".

The amount of things I have to learn and do:

1. Cloning and vector construction.
2. Basic cell culture techniques – Aseptic handling, cryopreservation and revival of cells, culture maintenance and subculturing, cell counting and viability assessment.
3. Cell line construction with controlled chaperone expression.
4. Batch culture.
5. Analytical techniques: ELISA, SDS-PAGE, Western Blotting.

I am studying Biological Sciences, not Chemical and Biological Engineering.  Why am I doing an engineering project?  I think I am in the wrong course, haA~.  But I think this is going to be an interesting project.

So how did my lecture marathon turn out?  I spent about 5 hours watching 3 lecture recordings.  Well, not exactly continuously, I did fall asleep for a while in between (because he was just too BORING).and surf the net while listening to the lecture in the background.

While watching lecture recordings:

1. Don't use your own computer - you may have the temptation to throw something in the lecturer's face, which you can't.  You probably end up damaging the monitor.
2. Use the school network.  The recordings run much smoother, and you can rewind and fast forward without much disruption.
3. Leave the recording running in the background.  When you are bored, you can surf the net or read some stuffs.
4. Remember the ear phones!
   

Lecture recordings are really useful to students.  I can't understand why my school, or rather the lecturers, don't do recordings for most of the modules.  Compared with the other schools that have recordings for ALL (okay, I exaggerated) modules, we are quite at a disadvantage.

After today's paper, I felt like a deflated ballon, where all the air in the ballon was purged out.  I just feel like doing nothing, more like I don't have the stamina.  I just want sit down and stone. 

One last paper left.  Then I can be off to Korea soon!

I properly had the exam paper with the most MCQ question, or rather weightage, in the whole of NTU.  Note that this is a core module.

When I saw that there were 40 MCQs, I was like, how come the weightage this year is only 40%, but I think it was okay.  Then after a few seconds, I remember the questions are 2 marks each, which means 80%!

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.  The MCQs were bloody hard.  I think it is the hardest MCQ paper I have ever taken.  And who says MCQs are easier, so don't envy me.

I hope he won't fail me.  I keep thinking if I fail, I will email my professor and tell him to carefully review my paper and help me pass the paper in whatever ways possible.  He can't fail me!  I am going to graduate already, if I fail, I will  have to extend half more semester for ONE paper.  Crap, I never fail my papers before.  And if this kind of thing was to happen for my last semester... ARGH!  (You know how I feel?)

But anyway, it is over.  Feel so much more at ease.  But I have about 12 hours worth of lectures to watch before another paper tomorrow morning.  I wonder if I can finish watching them by today.  I better be able to.

Off to watch my lecture marathon!

Finally found a new blogging platform that I am satisfied with.  And I manage to get an address that I love most (material girl), muahahaA~.

Well, doing a blog shift in the middle of exams, I must be damn free.  More like I gave up on studying for this module.  Crap, exam in 12 hours time, I haven't finish studying for it!  I kind of regretted taking this module, I could have choosen other.

I will do up the blog after exams, when I am really damn free.