My name is Katherine, and I am a senior. I am a double major, majoring in organismal biology and ecology as well as English (no concentration, as of yet) with a chemistry minor. After undergraduate school, I plan to go on to medical school. I decided to double major in biology and English because working in medicine requires as much (if not more) humanity than it does science. I have always loved English as much as I have loved the sciences, so I am very excited for this course.
The best book I have ever read for a course is Molecular Biology of the Cell by Alberts, Johnson, Lewis, Morgan, Raff, Roberts, & Walter. This textbook was the designated text for my Cell and Molecular Physiology class. It may sound odd that my favorite book is a textbook, but I have not been in many courses that have allowed me to read literature. This book combined the academia of the classroom and its true applications in the fields of biochemistry and medicine.
It reads similarly to an eloquently written scientific journal. The textbook was highly enjoyable as well as informative.
The worst book I have ever read for a course has been Calculus: Single Variable Calculus, Early Transcendentals by James Stewart. No book that I have ever read at MTSU is worthy of the title of “worst book” aside from this textbook. It was horribly unorganized, highly un-instructive, and catastrophically detrimental to my will to learn calculus.
(I spoke of textbooks, because the only book book I have read at MTSU is Dawn by Octavia Butler.
I enjoyed the book, but it was a very strange science fiction work. In short, the book was set in a post WWIII universe after the destruction of Earth with the involvement of apparently benign alien creatures. The book held a very strong female protagonist which I greatly enjoyed. However, the book has been neither my favorite or the worst book I have read.)
If I could require all MTSU students to read one book, it would be A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf. Woolf was an iconic, 20th century feminist. A Room of One’s Own argues that in order to write fiction women must have room and solitary time; it infinitely draws larger parallels to a woman’s need for financial independence and the greater issue of systematic gender inequality.
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