Hi there; Birdie here!
I'm still not very sure I'm studying enough. I didn't feel bad about how I did on either of this week's tests. The only thing we've gotten back so far is the lab portion of the cell bio exam, though. I did well on that, but it's not really enough feedback for me to be comfortable with how little I seem to be studying compared to everyone else. I know, I shouldn't compare myself to others...but it worries me that some people are trying to study five hours a day and I still sometimes watch two hour-long episodes of Supernatural instead of studying. If it works for me, that's all that matters, right?
We have our first anatomy exam next week (practical Tuesday, written Wednesday), and that's what I'm really worried about. Part of it is that I'm worried I won't know all the stuff, but I know that I'll learn what I know I have to by the exam, so that's pretty small. But then I'm worried that I won't know things because I don't know that I have to learn them--things like ligaments of the manus (which I almost wouldn't have studied unless they're on the terms sheet until I heard the group behind me going over them) or muscles in specific gait phases (which we might need to know but I'm not sure where to find). Mostly, though, I'm worried that I'll know what I need to but I won't write it in the perfect formula they want and will get points off for it. It's entirely possible that will happen on every question and I'll do poorly on the entire practical because of it. Apparently the mastoid part of the cleidocephalicus muscle isn't good enough for cleidocephalicus muscle pars mastoidea.
With problem solving class over (although we still have one assignment for it due on the 23rd), we've started physiology I. It used to be the biochem class too, but they've apparently revamped it since last year. Just looking at those notes for the first day stressed me out, but it's gotten better. Our current instructor, who also happens to teach biochem to undergrad students on main campus, is much easier to follow. We get notes for every class except anatomy (which we had to pay $300 for, I'm still upset about that), and I like the way she did her notes. Actually, she doesn't give us a lot and we have to write most of it ourselves, but there's space for that and she gives us chemical structures even if we don't have to know them. It's much better than the first instructor who gave us double the information on the slides and nowhere to put it.
In other news, despite the fact that I'm already probably in too many clubs/paying too much in dues, I also joined pathology club. They have 4 wetlabs planned this year; totally worth the price of admission. I also went to two VBMA meetings this week. The first speaker really annoyed me. It seemed like he was totally ignoring the client's perspective and purely focusing on economics, which is what I hate most about business. Today's speaker was really good, though. He talked about mentorship--apparently AAHA has a free toolkit online all about skills employers want. They can be used to evaluate expectations to prevent high turnover of new grads, but they can also help little first years like me know what we should be working on. I actually learned some stuff there, and it wasn't just yet another presentation on how much debt we'll have and how miserable our outlook as vet students is.
I've managed to go running twice this week. Well, mostly walking both times really, but I did a 5k with a HUGE group on Tuesday--it was amazing to be part of this pack and see them all running up a slight hill--and then walked around the lakes with a friend while going over parts of the pelvic limb bones. Since I'm apparently going to be doing this a lot (and my parents agreed to pay for it), I got new running shoes. They just came in today, so I'm tempted to go running with some fellow students tomorrow...only problem is that they're running at 6:30 am and I have enough of waking up so early on weekdays. Guess we'll see.
But in the meantime...I have some origins and insertions to learn.
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