Blog 10: Finito

Blog 10: Finito

We’re here, we’re finally here, the last bioprocessing class. As happy as I am to be nearly finished the module, I can’t celebrate too early as the all important teaching class was still to get through. I was very apprehensive before I started this class as I always get very nervous before presentations and was afraid I’d let the two lads down by messing the whole thing up somehow. However they both reassured me that they were also nervous and that we’re all in the same boat.

We started the class by listening to the most of the other groups classes as we were on second last. They were all very good and informative and in my opinion and I was able to take something informative from all of them. What I also found interesting was looking at the pharmaceuticals perspective and how they approached the project. I mentioned this earlier in a previous blog when we gave our mini presentaions about what we were going to do our processes on, but now that they are explaining their processes more in depth and actually teaching us about it I’m very impressed looking at it with more of a food background.

Our class went fairly well in my opinion. We all had our separate parts to teach and we felt that we protrayed them effectively. We even had a small class interactive game at the end that allowed the others to get involved by naming off the parts of a bioreactor. We also gave stickers of our logo out to anyone who got the answers right. I did slightly mess up the labelling but we’ll put that down to nerves. We also went over our ten minute limit of teaching that cost us a few marks. Overall we got 68%. It was disappointing not to get at least 70% when we were so close but Barry gave us back the grading sheet so we could look at what we can improve on in the future.

Lastly, what I’m going to talk about is my overall tranisition from from the start of this module to the end. Barry asked us at the in the very first module to write down our hopes, fears and expectations of this class. For hope, I wrote, “a strong grade.” I haven’t got a final result yet but I feel that this is still attainable. For fear, I wrote, “That I’ll get lost in the class and not know what’s going on.” I don’t think this ever happened except for the class that I missed, I was a little confused looking over the notes on my own that day. The reason why I didn’t get lost was because I feel Barry took the class at a nice pace and allowed us to learn ourselves with the use of the memo system. Lastly, what I expected from this module was, “To have a fair knowledge of bioprocessing when the module ends.” I think this is true, my knowledge now is vastly better than when I began and I believe that this knowledge could be important to be in the future if I ever go into this line of work.

Now, as I write my last blog, I’d like to thank all my followers for sticking with me during the semester and I hope that ye took something  beneficial from these blogs.

Bye for now,

Sean.