BNFO 301: Introduction to Bioinformatics (Spring 2011)
Personal Information Questionnaire
(please press SUBMIT button when finished)

WARNING! Please don't use double quoatation marks in your answers.
(The questionnaire program dies when it encounters them!)

I. Basic Information

A. Your name  
                As you wish to be called 
    and/or   As you wish NOT to be called 

B. Your e-mail address 

C. How often do you check e-mail? 

D. Year you expect to graduate 

E. Major or Department 

F. OK if this information and your picture is made available to others in the class (but not to others)? 

G. Can you bring a laptop to class? (I'll warn you when there's a reason to do so) 

II. Lab Section
There are three lab sections (including the one recently opened up):
Section 1: Monday, 10:00 - 10:55
Section 2: Monday, 11:00 - 11:55
Section 3: Wednesday, 10:00 - 10:55
A. Would you like to switch sections? 
     If so, then from what section to what section

B. If somene else needs to switch, would you be willing to switch sections? 
     If so, then from what section to what section

C. There are more people in some lab sections than there are computers in the lab.
     Would you be willing to work off of your own laptop? 

D. Would you prefer to use your own laptop? 

III. Experience
A. Biology
Please check courses you have taken or are taking:
        Cell Biology  Biotechniques Lab  Genetics  Phage Discovery

Any other class or experience pertinent to molecular or cell biology?

B. Chemistry
Please check courses you have taken or are taking:
       General Chemistry Organic Chemistry Biochemistry

Any other class or experience?

C. Computer Science
Courses and experiences? More importantly, how comfortable do you feel about computer programming?
D. Math
D.1. How comfortable do you feel working with statistics and understanding what things mean? (Note that I'm not asking how much you know) 

D.2. How comfortable do you feel working with probability and understanding what things mean? (Again, I'm not talking about classroom knowledge. Maybe you learned it all playing cards) 

D.3. In general, how comfortable are you figuring things out. Like how to slice a bagel so that each of three people get an equal part, and everyone gets a hole.

E. Other
E.1. Have you had any research experience (interpret any way you like).   
       If so, please elucidate below.

E.2. Have you by any chance used any bioinformatic tools (e.g. Blast or sequence alignment).   
       If so, please elucidate below.

III. Fuzzy philosophical questions
A. What is your current thinking as to your career/life goal?
B. Why did/do you hope to gain from your time at VCU?
C. What, thus far, has helped you during your time at VCU make progress?
D. What, thus far, has not helped you during your time at VCU make progress?
E. Why did you take this course? What do you hope to gain from it?
IV. Anything else?
Put here any comments, questions, suggestions, concerns that don't fit anywhere else.
Thanks!
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