treat myself as a computer

i thought biochemistry is a solid experiment-based discipline. at least before the 4th year everything i learnt is somewhat related to experiments--microarray, DNA sequencing, footprinting and ELISA. bioinformatics has just overthrown my normal thinking logic. what you have to do is to learn various online tools, how to sieve and extract essence from an information overload, and of course, sit there and THINK. i was stuck on several questions on today's exam, and was habitually thinking along the line of how to show proof of the theory by experiments. while i was busily racking my brain harddrive recalling any details we learnt in class, i suddenly realised that we learnt none... so what to do? sit there and keep thinking, think as if i'm a computer with thousands of databases integrated and ready to use...

btw, exams at 9 in the morning are really not so pleasant. i almost fell asleep several times, not mentioning my brain was not even at the right mode to think. anyway, although dr. steipe is not a good course coordinator, he responds to students willingly and fast. i was still asking him questions online last night by sending emails. and today when i signed the attendance sheet he recognised my name and said good luck to me. hehe. quite a nice person.