A little of everything and a lot of nothing

Really quickly Ross students come to realize that they know very little about everything and almost nothing about everything. As I study, I feel that I can maintain a conversation with my peers and roommates up to the third or fourth fact. Any exceptions to the rule or caveat just don’t seem to register. The more complex lectures take a lot more than an hour to fully comprehend (Dr. Martin’s lecture on the autonomic nervous system and nervous system communication). That is annoying in and of itself when you make a schedule to complete a 50 minute lecture in an hour. Everyday I just about catch up mostly leaving 1 of the day’s lectures for tomorrow before going to bed. Only to think that I will be bombarded again tomorrow.

Like Melissa wrote today we had our first day of gross anatomy lab where we began dissection on a human cadaver. My group was very friendly and some of us were more eager than others to begin cutting (perhaps I should say hacking) at our “first patients.” During the lab you can expect one of the faculty members to come by and drill you on your dissection technique, structure identification, their origin, their insertion, their innervation, where they derive their blood supply, or their function. Several times today our group members said to the pod leader “I cant focus I am trying to dissect” to which the teacher responded “It’s about time you learn to do more than one thing at a time.” It reminded me of the scene in the movie Swordfish where Hugh Jackman is supposed to decrypt a computer while a gun is held to his head. Anywho, my allotted time for writing has expired and I am beginning a Biochemistry marathon that begins today and ends on February 18 (Mini I).

Until next time,
Mike