Public Health 150A

The Introduction to Epidemiology and Human Diseases class has two homeworks: the first deals with using PubMed as a resource, the second deals with answering questions in time for the lab session.

Using PubMed is necessary for researching on certain diseases and composing Fact Sheet, which contains enough information that you can show to another person, allowing them to have a gist of what a disease does, where it comes from, whom it affects, when its symptoms appear, how to treat it, and why you should worry.

I don’t know what kind of lab the Public Health class will be, because the only lab experience I had was in Chemistry and Biology. In Chemistry, I had to focus on doing experiments, while in Biology, I had to dissect animals and to look at specimens.

unsubscribe me!

There was a mailing list sent out about senior spirits, with a message on the bottom explaining how to unsubscribe. Unfortunately, one poor sap replied to the entire mailing list asking to unsubscribe. Soon, three hundred seniors can’t be wrong, instantly replying to unsubscribe me. When I checked my emails, I was soon inundated by 300 emails. At first I panicked, wondering what was going on, but I looked and knew that this was a common problem of computer-illiterate people.

Cloudlaced explains.

But not all of them were stupid. There were still some hold-outs, who, to no avail, tried to tell everyone to email owner of the list for unsubscription request. Despite this, the computer-illiterate people didn’t read it, and simply, blindly hit the reply button.

A facebook group was created: “The Class of 2006 Has Been United By Stupidity” A forum started the “unsubscribe me” thread commenting on the topic.

Finally, Cafepress has two kinds of “unsubscribe me” shirts: The one with 44607330, a code that I don’t yet understand; and the general one for the class of 2006, specifically Cal.

It’s Berkeley hilarious.

next semester

I’m taking Math (Linear Algebra and Differential Equations), Public Health (Epidemiology), Molecular Cell Biology (Bacterial Pathenogenesis), and either Classic Literature (Greek and Roman Mythology) or Linguistics (Mathematics and Mind).