Yeah - title's a bad anatomy joke. Sorry, I'll try to get more clever.
Yesterday we started Cells and Tissue Structure (CTS). Talk about a rough 2 hours. The lecturer moved pretty fast through some "basic" material involving sequestration and post-translational modification of secreted proteins. That's quite a mouthful, and something that I wasn't too good with back when I saw a brief overview of it in undergrad bio. Also doesn't help that my cellular biology knowledge is basically non-existent (at least compared to some of my classmates). Darn you Econ major! Guess I'll have to work a bit harder...
Today we got to have our first time in the anatomy lab. Funny aside - we have to wear some sort of eye protection in the lab, and I forgot my goggles. Good thing they have extras, because my partner and I literally were ready to wear sunglasses as our eye protection. At least I would have been stylish in the lab. Our cadaver isn't as large as I thought - although washing it head to toe took quite a while.
The amount of information being thrown at us can definitely be viewed as a bit overwhelming. It's looking like I'll have to hit up the library (which is much nicer than the undergrad ones!) after class to do some review of the day's material. I'm definitely not alone there, but I'm definitely not used to having to do this much work. I want to try to stay with it as much as I can, it would probably be pretty bad if I fell behind. Speaking of which, I need to review CTS and biochem for tomorrow. More later.
gross!! was it stinky?
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