Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Turf School Day Thirty-Nine

Monday is the day we have two big quizzes for our disease and pest management classes. Those quizzes are in the classes that sandwhich our lunch hour. So whatever class we have Monday morning, is usually used as a study session for the first quiz.
Today that happened to be boring botany, learning about hormones and plant growth regulators. We will be having a quiz soon, so I need to go through the material and teach myself everything we have been taught about in class. The teacher is just very monotone and he uses the laser pointer way too much.
In our pest management class our quiz covered biorational/botanical insecticides. Basically trying to choose pesticides that will be effective, but will not harm the environment. Afer our quiz we had a discussion on disease diagnostics. It was a basic review of the entire year and helped me to see how much I have actually learned. It is interesting going back and looking at presentations we had in the first weeks, and remembering how nothing made sense to me. Now about 99% of the information makes sense.
In turf diseases our quiz was rather unexpected. The teacher gave us our review material about a week ago, so we had past quizzes, and so I prepared a list of possible questions, and the quiz was completely different. Our lecture covered rusts, smuts, molds, and mildews.
Today was the last lecture for both pest management and turf diseases. A lot of my class mates are glad the classes are over becasue they were hard and they did not like the professor, but I thought they were two of the most important classes we will have in this program.

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