Tips for Grad School-Bound Undergrads: Yes, you really are expected to know that stuff

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I know that title sounds condescending, but stay with me here, people.
For all the talk I hear about how hard graduate school is, I think that getting an undergraduate degree is just as difficult but in different ways. Sure, getting my BS now wouldn’t be as hard, but then I’m not 20 anymore. I think it’s just plain easier to work hard when you’re older and a lot of the social/emotional issues of your early 20’s has been resolved. Undergraduate education in many universities is a survival process of learning to crack the code on five different courses at a time. The fact is that it isn’t possible to gain a deep understanding in five subjects in four to five months. And you really do need to be working on that social/emotional stuff so you can grow as a person, and not just as a scientist. Believe me, it's pretty obvious in grad school who neglected doing the former.
But my point is that somehow you need to learn the coursework in your field in a way that you remember the majority of it. Cramming does work, but only short-term. I'm sure you're aware that you'll be expected to know that stuff for a subject GRE test. But realize that once you're in graduate school, you will be spoken to as if you remember what you were taught while earning your BS. More importantly, you will be expected to have learned it well enough to develop good intuition so that you can really think on your feet and make intellegent conjectures when new subject matter is presented to you. And when people mention Chiroptera, you really shouldn't have a blank expression on your face.
To this end, I keep Campbell's Biology by my bed for night-time browsing. This is the greatest biology text that I know of, and it was used in my first two introductory biology courses as an undergrad. If you don't have a copy of it, I'm sure you can find used ones on eBay or Amazon.com, but I bought my current copy for $7 at Half Price Books. I look at it all the time, refreshing my memory on the taxonomy I'm less familiar with (really, people, you should know all the Orders and Classes of familiar species), how nerve cells work, etc. The message here is to develop and maintain a solid foundation in your field. Now go learn those Orders ... and that's an order!

Science news tidbit for the day: New Coral Species Discovered

Science behind the story: Do you know about different species concepts?

Cool science site of the day: The Tree of Life Site is great. I used it all the time as a research assistant. I remember having trouble locating species of interest using their search tool, but could get there by browsing. Maybe the search function has been improved.

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