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| My Kinky MOOCs: read about the begining of the MOOC adventure here. |
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| Student profile: a far cry from ideal. |
Yes, That's me. Self confidence level: low. I'm a creative person, which means my mood fluctuates a lot. I'm not a great scientist (plagued by data blindness, logic is not my cup of tea), me learning computer coding is comedy material, but I love writing, especially fiction that takes place in the future: exploring human emotions in the context of new technologies. I really want to understand genomics and the future of medicine. Dreaming about girly science and trying to make it happen.
A MOOC is a massive open online course, at least this is what it's supposed to be. But they call me an early adopter for a reason, right? Early adopter stands for adept of a technology that is
not implemented yet. There will be bugs like if you make one little mistake in a complex question, your answer for the whole problem will be graded as zero instead of, say, 12/15. By the time they fix the bugs, the MOOC course can be over, so you'd better be good at finding answers where there is no bug (if you want a decent grade, you are left with a margin of error of less than 2%). I chose MIT because their pedagogy is outstanding and they have the best "deep dive" videos in the world, which boils down to the fact that understanding complicated stuff becomes entertaining. It's a weird combination of magic (the great pedagogy) and messy (the bugs, molecules, proteins and assays, both in biology and IT. Remember, biology is going digital). In my humble opinion, the advantages outweigh disadvantages such as compacting two month's worth of work in one week: Python coding in genomics and Eric Lander lectures in ONE week, seriously? I call this "Life at the Speed of Light". (Quantitative Biology Workshop, week 5).
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| "I'm on my way from misery to happiness today" |
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