6 hours straight

I hate it when they timetable really weird hours :<

Oh well, not much can be done.

Lots of immunology lectures today. 2, in fact.

I learned a lot that I'll have to revise later because he went so, so fast. Looking over my notes now...

Soooo....

Started with Antibodies, which are the same as immunoglobulins.

4 peptide chains, 2 identical heavy and 2 identical light chains make up an antibody.

Each chain has a variable and constant region.

Variable determines specificity of the antibody, and constant determines the isotype.

IgG, IgM, IgA, IgE and IgD and IgG has 4 subclasses while IgA has 2 subclasses.

Man, I barely remember any of this because it doesn't quite relate to what I know.

Totally new material sigh.

Then some stuff about IgM antibodies, and how they are part of the primary immunological response, whereas IgG are part of the secondary response. 

.....I hope.YES. I remembered :D

Also, class switching.

Ie; IgM turns into IgG because IgM is good early on and is specific to a certain virus/pathogen, but then to maintain its staying power for later encounters, IgM's constant region, which are determined by its constant region genes then turns morphs into a different series and then expresses itself as IgG.

Also, antibodies are first and foremost, function blockers. They stop bad things binding to our cells and infecting them.

Antigens (ANTIbody GENerators) are the bad things, usually.

And also, Cytotoxic T-Cells. I did my assignment on those, so I know what's going on for them, thankfully.

They express CD8 or Complex Distribution 8 (I think that's right.... I hope I am. WHOOPS. "Cluster of Differentiation" Lol.)

And they're better at killing things than the Natural Killer cells, funnily enough.

And there was much more, but that's all that I think I can remember atm.

Actually, one of my med buddies mentioned to me today...well. We were talking about the lecture and how fast it was.

Friend 1: "Oh man, I'm going to need to study that a bit more. How was it for you, Neku?"

"Ah...well, I did my assignment on it, so I knew a bit about it beforehand."

Friend 2: "Don't ever talk to Neku about lectures. He's all like "Oh but it's so easy~" Ahaha."

"Pfft yea man. If you think this is hard, what are you going to do when it gets to fifth/sixth year? *laughs*"

I don't think he's ever going to get off my back about it now XD

Later on today, another friend asked me if I was a genius or something.

That was amusing. I don't think I am. Especially when I speculate wrongly, or fail to figure out something.

But y'now, after that, Friend 2, who I'll call Saint ended up telling me about how arrogant and condescending I was (in a friendly, cordial tone - ie; jokingly).

On the home, I asked him why, and told him that other people have said that to me before.

Turns out, it's cause people can't understand when I'm joking and when I'm serious.

I don't understand.

Also, probably the best one liner today:

"My ego hasn't gotten bigger. Yours has just gotten smaller!"

Hoping you guys aren't as worn out as me. Woo... more work >.<