Dear Ole Lex,

While this class is coming to an end, I would have never imagined getting through it with an A- as my current score reflects. During this course I have found myself to have learned a lot of interesting theories about cells through our class Q&As from Packback Questions. Packback has introduced me to the formalities of 3-D printing, breast milk health properties, Stem cells regeneration, cancers, and evolution/ancestor genes. I originally thought this class was going to be extra hard with working on a new interface of Blackboard along with Packback, WordPress, and Smart-Biology. However, this class was not as stressful as I thought because Blackboard Ultra folders were well organized, and WordPress was not a mandatory site to post on throughout the semester. Although some quizzes were challenging, my anxiety about my success in this course was minimal as I realized test were not given.

Overall, the content in this course was difficult. If possible, I would have taken this course by itself to truly understand the process of how cells worked. In the beginning I planned to take detailed notes from this course so that I had a great deal of information to look back on. As the course progressed I sometimes found myself being overwhelmed with one of my core classes for my major and slacked off with note taking in this class. With using packback in this course, it kept me engaged and introduced me to knowledge about cells I would have never thought to research about. The most interesting topic in this course was the process of cell signaling, gene expression, and extracellular matrix. However, the most difficult to learn was cell signaling because of all the different proteins and molecules that take place in the process.

With ending the course with extracellular matrix, I found that I was able to relate my personal interest of neuropsychology to how some cells play a part in the brain with communication and diseases/disorders. From completing this course, I will be able to advance my studies in molecular biology to learn more about how the brain functions and how cells communicate and interact with one another. If I could tell my past-self anything, I would have greatly appreciated and recommended that I would have bought a physical textbook for my personal use in this course so that I could have highlighted key points instead of relying on myself to handwrite notes.

Furthermore, this course was very much valuable, fun, and worth taking.

Thank you,

Alexis