Today, we found out that AUC, as a product of their ever-changing curriculum, has decided to group the first and second semester MCB class together for the next month. So this morning, when we got to class, we found that although most of the second semester students were not in class today (after last night's post-block craziness), it was unusually crowded. I am not excited to see how crowded it is going to be on a regular day when most people are in class!! A couple of seconds semester were a little upset (and rightfully so) that their usual seats had been taken by the first semesters.
The reason for the grouping is that they are now teaching MCB in a different order. MCB is molecular and cellular bio, if you weren't already aware. Basically, in an attempt to make a more integrated curriculum, they have grouped together three classes (genetics, cell, and biochem) which go together about as well as anatomy and immunology would. It's very obvious, while taking the class, that all they really did was group 3 different classes together and turn it into one big class. There is little to no continuity between the classes and all parts are taught by different professors.
For some reason, which is beyond me, they decided to unnecessarily mix things up for our semester. I guess they thought it would make it seem more like one class and less like three. So, we had half of genetics last semester, and some MCB and cell, and we have some more of it this semester. Well, they realized that this probably wasn't the best way to go about it and now, first semester students take all of genetics the first semester. Not sure how the rest works out. In any case, its making for a very crowded classroom. That's really the point of this whole long post! :)
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