Grad school is hard, like really really hard

11/13/12

So I haven’t updated in a while, but I have a perfectly good explanation for that. I have done nothing, nada, squat, zero, other than sleep eat and study for the past 2 weeks. You think I’m lying or exaggerating but I’m dead serious.

Last Thursday, the 7^th, I had my first anatomy exam. The exam was worth 50% of my final grade so I was stressing out about it. On the exam was all of the muscles of the upper body. For every muscle we had to know it’s origin, insertion point, what action it does, what nerve innervates it, and be able to locate it on a picture. I have spent hours upon hours with my flash cards, my book and the biodigital human program on my computer. I don’t study at my desk because the chair is rather uncomfortable so I had all of my notes spread over my bed in little piles. Then to help me study I drew really awful pictures of the muscles which I will not include on this blog.

I had the test last Thursday and it went (knock on wood) well. I felt pretty good about it when I left the room. Of course this probably means I failed epically, but until I get my score I’m going to live in my fantasy. After the test a bunch of us promptly headed to the pub to get drunk. My brain was so fried that when we went to split the check I had like a brain fart and couldn't remember how to do math. That night I took my first real night off in weeks. I went home after the pub, ate half a pint of chocolate ice cream and watched the lion king.

I couldn't have too much down time because this is grad school and that just doesn't happen. On Monday I had a bone quiz on the teeth. Now teeth are really hard because A) there not easy to side, and B) all of the incisors and molars look the same. The difference between mandibular incisor 2 and Maxillary incisor 2 is so minute that it’s ridiculous. The actual quiz went alright, it was half on the actual teeth and half on everything else we have covered so far. There was one fragment that I stared at for a good 5 minutes without knowing what it was (turns out it was the foramen rotunda of the left sphenoid, I of course did not write this).

On happy news I am hosting thanksgiving with all my friends! I am going to attempt to make a turkey; mashed potatoes and my favorite Brussels sprout casserole that my Aunt Lynda makes. I called her for the recipe and it was so nice to talk to her. It makes me really miss all my family back home.  But I’ll be home soon for Christmas! Yay!