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About themacroworldofmicrobes

Graduate student in Microbiology in Virginia Tech, patient, hard worker, quick learner, passionate about teaching! Love cooking, baking, travelling, reading, working out!

A bitter taste from my college education experience in China

Two weeks ago, I met one of my friends, Tong, at Wall memorial gym at our routing Friday badminton night. Both of us are close to graduation this year and we couldn’t stop talking about current job hunting situations once we … Continue reading Continue reading

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a successful project-based learning lab class

Since we are focusing on project-based learning, case study, team-based learning and all those new teaching strategies, I kind of figured out more why the General Microbiology lab is such a popular class now. This lab based 2000 level class … Continue reading Continue reading

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research faculty duties, how to balance?

I was sitting in the lunchroom in our lab building alone last Thursday for a afternoon snack, grabbed a magazine from the bookshelf at the corner and  glanced few articles. the very first scientists feature article actually brought my attention, not … Continue reading Continue reading

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power balance in the classroom

I was reading classmates’ blog trying to find some spark to light up my ideas about my second post. It is kind of interesting that people always have a stronger feeling when see something familiar happened to others. I guess … Continue reading Continue reading

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How blogging can help Biology Undergraduate Education?

The first thought about blogging is exciting! One reason is because I have been maintaining an active blog for over 7 years now and I really enjoy it. However, this time, we were not talking about blogging by myself, but … Continue reading Continue reading

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