BNFO 301 
Introduction to Bioinformatics
Personal Information Questionnaire
(please press SUBMIT button when finished)
Spring 2015 

(If a question is preceded by a *, you were in BNFO300 last semester, and your answer hasn't changed, feel free to skip that question)
(Note, however, that there are new, unstarred questions)

I. Basic Information

  1. Your name  
                  * as you wish to be called 
    * (and/or) as you wish NOT to be called 
     
  2. Your e-mail address  (if different from the e-mail through which I greeted you)
     
  3. * OK if your picture is made available to others in the class (but not to the world)? 
     
  4. * How often do you check e-mail? 
     
  5. * Year you expect to graduate 
     
  6. * Major or Department 
     
  7. * Almost every class you will need to bring a laptop with wireless access.
         * Any problem with this? 

     
  8. Special sessions will be scheduled a couple of times during the week for those who want extra help. At the moment, late afternoons and early evenings look to be the most likely times, but that could change.
    - Would you come to such sessions if they were at a convenient time for you?
    - If so, are late afternoons/early evenings convenient?
    - If not, what times would be better?

II. Experience
A. *Biology

Please check courses you have taken or are taking:
        Intro Biology Phage Discovery Cell Biology  Genetics  Molecular Biology 

Any other biology class or experience pertinent to molecular biology?

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

Any other chemistry class or experience pertinent to molecular biology?

C. Computer Science
Please check courses you have taken or are taking:
        BNFO201 (Python)  Intro Comp Sci Intro Programming 
       Data Structures & OOP

How comfortable do you feel about computer programming?

How comfortable do you feel about figuring out algorithms?
For example, could you work out a step-by-step algorithm that will calculate n factorial?

D. Math
D.1. In general, how comfortable are you using simple math, like what you learned in high school?

D.2. How comfortable do you feel working with probability in a practical way?

D.3. How comfortable do you feel about your understanding of what statistics mean?
By "statistics" I'm talking about things like t-tests.

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

E.2. * Have you had any occasion to read research articles?   

       If so, please elucidate below (including by what criteria you believe them to be research articles).

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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