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Learn More About Lunia's Experience:

anatomy My academic experiences in anatomy truly began in high school while taking biology. Ever since my first dissection, I have always been fascinated by the human body and how the different systems work together to maintain life. I took an anatomy and physiology course in high school as well, and after taking a year of general biology and another anatomy and physiology course in college, I believe I have a very good understanding of how the body works and what to call its various parts. As a premedical nutrition major, I clearly am not done studying the human body, but this past semester, while studying anatomy and physiology, my knowledge of the subject expanded significantly. To date, I have dissected a number of animals and tissues, including a frog, a fetal pig, a cat, a sheep heart, and an adult pig kidney. The experience I have had should be adequate to teach up to an undergraduate level. biochemistry This semester I took an autotutorial biochemistry course at Cornell. It covered two semester's worth of biochemistry, and had weekly 40-60 minute quizzes in addition to three exams given throughout the semester. Because of the nature of the course and the deadlines students were given, it was absolutely essential to learn the material well and to keep up with the subject throughout the entire semester. Also, because it was an autotutorial course, I had to be independent in learning the material. Students could always approach the undergraduate teaching assistants for help, but in the end, each person had to take the quizzes and tests individually. The material is still fresh in my memory, and I still have my notes and textbook. I have a very thorough understanding of biochemistry because of this course in particular, which reinforced what I learned in nutritional biochemistry and microbiology at Cornell, which cover many of the same topics.