MY PERSONALLY EXPERIENCES IN LIFE SCIENCE 151.

I have been fortunate enough to do the Life Science 151 module for the past eight months and I describe my experience regarding the module as challenging and yet informative experience. I remember my first practicals where we were taken to a game reserve, and the weather was extremely hot. As a first year student I was not really expecting to be out on the field on my first practical. However besides the weather, I enjoyed myself at the reserve. The Life Science 151 module is also composed of other concepts rather then the practicals; we have tutorials, which we sometime get surprise quiz. At first I used to hate the quiz because I did not understand why out lecturers or tutors inform us about before we write them. Late on I think I came to understand the system that they were using and that encouraged me to always stay on top of my game and study my books regularly.

I think the lectures are also one of my other great experiences, my lecturer Dr Maryke Malan is such an amazing person. She has never missed a day in class and she always makes sure that every student clearly understands every word that she alters during class. Another thing that I love about her is the fact she is aware and well informed of the things that she teaches and if she does not know something she will sharply inform the class about it, she does not pretend or make the students feel uncomfortable in class. I think having someone like Maryke as a lecturer is a great advantage be she is encourage and always pushes the student to do their ultimate best.

In practicals we were also appointed to people that would help us during the practicals, the Demonstrators "DEMI''. I was fortunate to have Apiwe Mdunyelwa as my demi, she is an amazing soul and she is always keen to help us during practical. She encourages us as student to take advantage of the her presence by asking her questions of anything that we are uncertain about regarding the Life Science module. Also I believe she has sense of humor because every Fridays during our practicals there is always laughter within the group and I love the way she interacts with each student.

My tutor Ilana. Ilana is very helpful during our tutorials. Every Thursday before we start our tutorial set of that particular week she always goes through the previous tut with the rest of the class. She helps us with our corrections and makes everything that we did not quite understand in class easy and more understandable.

Lately I will talk about my practical instructor, Mr Bradley Flynn. He is very our of the life of a scientist and and aspiring like myself in the laboratory. He is always willing to assist the students with any equipment in the lap that we are unable to use in the lab, like the microscope which I sometimes struggle with. He presents the practicals in an orderly way and make it easier of our to understand all the instructions in the practical manual.