Who loves having 6 hours of lecture in one day? No really, if you know someone who enjoys that you should tell them to seriously consider medicine as a career. Today we mapped out the arteries of the thorax, abdomen, and pelvis. Then we mapped out the veins. Then we mapped out the lymphatics. Then we went over all the embryology of how it all is formed. I think the single most amazing thing I learned today is that Chipotle burritos and embryos fold in the same fashion to create the finished product. So next time we are hanging out and you want to learn just buy me a burrito and I can explain it to you. Hopefully they fold it right and you don't end up with a major birth defect that makes your guacamole spill out of your abdominal cavity! I also learned that if your heart forms backwards it will be on the right side of your body and that usually, but not always, causes all of your other organs to form reversed as well. I wish I was one of the awesome people with everything on the opposite side. I would make everyone call me ymA and type like this. .siht ekil epyt dna Amy em llac enoyreve ekam dluow I If you enjoyed how I typed that you should facebook chat with me sometimes because I can do it suprisingly fast. Just another one of the benefits of going insane.
Anyway, I love the professors at our school because they are all fun. Today during lecture the professor paused and someone in our class yawned super loud and she just burst out laughing. I just wish teachers at all levels could be so fun. I want to take my medical school teaching staff to every high school in the country and have them tell the students what they do and do not care about. I'll give you a hint, you would have to curse really loudly for at least five minutes before they even started to get annoyed. We have gotten away with asking if we could get partial credit for writing "artery" as an answer for identifying an artery if we didn't know which artery (we can get credit), asking if there are federal regulations on buying rib cutters, asking how exactly they could know we were in class to answer a question if we didn't speak up when they called our name, being on facebook all of lecture, texting as much as we please, and becoming audibly distressed when they move onto a new subject with only 10 minutes left in class (they just let us out early when we do that). It isn't that we got away with it and they looked mildly annoyed and didn't say anything. The professors always laugh and tell us how much they really enjoy our class. So next time a college or below teacher tells you something is unacceptable from a professional student tell them to go sit in on some medical school classes for a day.
So yesterday I embarked on an adventure known as trying to kill a plantar wart that didn't die after professional freezing. I taped some rotting fruit to it. A banana peel to be specific. I kept it on all day and took off the tape to shower. One of the warts had turned black and it fell out leaving a giant white crater in my toe. I would be slightly alarmed at the crater, but it is quite the improvement. The other one, which is really a colony of about 30 warts, is just being stubborn. I put more banana peel on it, but I am brainstorming about what other fruits to try if it doesn't show any signs of death by Friday. I'm thinking cactus fruit.
Today I made the mistake of thinking if I looked up a squirrel video on youtube my cat would hold still so I could sit with her. It worked! Okay, the mistake part is that now she thinks my laptop is for her entertainment. She keeps jumping in my face and trying to take over my laptop like Arby's took over Wendy's. (That is really true, by the way.) I guess I'll just have to get her a real squirrel to keep her entertained now.
Today I got a call from my mom telling me she went on her own daring adventure. She climbed for hours through the wind and rocks to get to a freezing mountain pool so she could jump in. Color me impressed. I think that is somewhere between green, purple, and brown. I am really jealous though because she seriously was in one of the most beautiful places in the world while I was in lecture. But at least she was kind enough to send me pictures so the next time I decide to stress to the point of hallucination I can look at them and take the hike in my mind. Or would it be for real? I can never tell.
So I am still on my study strike. I told you it was ultimate. Today I was telling my ninja all about how I have been watching Cupcake Wars and anything else with food in it since I got home from class. He then proceeded to lecture me about how I have a responsibility to my future patients and that I was miserable last time I had to cram and that I needed to get out of the habit of rationalizing why I shouldn't study and how I could get more sleep close to the test and not have to study all weekend if I do it now and all these other reasons that are so clearly selfish on his part. I save lives by not studying. Namely his. Anyway, he is blackmailing me! He says he will not come up and make me delicious grilled pesto burgers unless I study. He is like an evil mastermind who knows exactly how to destroy me! That is as not cool as waving a plastic sword out of a car window and almost getting arrested because the cop thought it was a gun. Not cool, ninja. Not cool.
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