perfectly ordinary

today was a surprisingly lovely day! my program keeps us busy; we are usually in class 9-4pm with an hour or two off for lunch. today though, we only had 2 hours of class because we have a neuroscience test tomorrow. sounds scary, right? well, the good thing is that the program doesn't count towards our med school gpa's, so as long as we pass, life is good!

this means i had a wonderfully chill day! which was much needed after long days of lecture and 7 hours of anatomy lab! i took the morning off working-out and instead enjoyed my coffee during the today show. then i went to class for an hour, had lunch, headed to starbucks with my friends to "study," ate dinner, watched tv, had a chance to catch-up with leigh anne (!!!), spontaneously decided to go to the beach, and then treated myself to an ice-cream cone!

loving life without grades :) - too bad that has to change come august!

week 2

after enjoying a long memorial day weekend at home, i headed back to galvy for week 2!

this week has been SO MUCH BETTER than last week! for starters, coffee is back in my life! totally makes life happier. and keeps me awake. and i'm used to the schedule and being in lecture. slowly falling back into the school groove. hallelujah!

this week of dissecting has been really fun! yesterday we attacked the brachial plexus and axillary region. who knew the armpit contained so much important stuff?! - the brachial plexus is a network of nerves that start near the neck and move towards the arm. they cross and get different names and are basically a confusing mess.



see what i mean?!? -- well, i made it my mission last night to get learn this! and after some help from my anatomy atlas, youtube, and about a million practice drawings, i got it :) - not sure why, but it totally made me feel accomplished. probably because it is the first thing i've really had to study in FOREVER.
today in lab we took apart the forearm. SO FUN. seriously - the 2 hour lab flew by! once the skin and fat are removed, you just keep finding ligaments and muscles and nerves and arteries and veins, etc etc etc - so it made for a fun dissection.

i know that next year is going to be insanely hard and very trying, but i'm feeling better about it now that i'm getting back into school mode and finding that i'm enjoying (most) of the material!