BNFO 301: Introduction to Bioinformatics (Spring 2005)
Personal Information Questionnaire
(please press SUBMIT button when finished)

I. Basic Information

A. Your name (as you are 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. Mind if this information is made available to others in the class? 
G. Mind if this information appears on the course web site? 
II. Experience
A. Biology
Please check courses you have taken or are taking:
       Cell Biology Biotechniques Lab Genetics

Anything else? Please use box below for other classes, other experience, etc

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

Anything else? Please use box below for other classes, other experience, etc

C. Computer Science
I don't really care what courses you've taken. How comfortable do you feel about computer programming? What experiences have you had?
D. Math
D.1. How comfortable are you using calculus 

D.2. How comfortable do you working with statistics and understanding what things mean? (Note that I'm not asking how much you know) 

D.3. How comfortable do you working with probability and understanding what things mean? (Again, I'm not talking about classroom knowledge. Maybe you learned it all playing cards) 

D.4. 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. Important logistical questions
A. Do you know when the first class meets? 
    (Answer: Wednesday, January 19, either 1:00 pm (Section 1) or 2:00 pm (Section 1 and Section 2)

B. Do you know where the first class meets? (this map might be helpful)
    (Answer: 2:00 pm class - North Wing of Life Sciences Center, 2nd floor, Room 250
                  1:00 pm or 3:00 pm lab - Life Sciences Center, 1st floor, Computer lab, Room 104)

C. I'm considering the possibility of consolidating the two labs into a single hour.
     Please give your views on the following times:
          1:00 pm    3:00 pm 

D. There will be an off-campus trip that will take two to three hours Wed. afternoon February 16.
     Please list what times that day you could make it (including class time)
    

E. Comments related to logistics

IV. Fuzzy philosophical questions
A. What is your current thinking as to your career/life goal?
B. Why did you take this course? What do you hope to gain from it?
V. Anything else?
Put here any comments, questions, suggestions, concerns that don't fit anywhere else.
Thanks!
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