Block one is done!
As can be gleaned from the previous post, I have just (ok, 4 days ago) finished the first round of exams in medical school. And preliminary reports have the first round going fairly well. The course director for Neuroscience sent out the answer key, and the following day, sent out 2 corrections, which ultimately helped me. Overall, I felt the exams were very fair, and despite all that happened the week leading up to them, I felt that I was pretty well prepared and all of that stuff.
Wednesday afternoon for all of us turned out to be pretty funny looking back on it. We had about 25 unshowered, unshaven and just crazy medical students show up to Friday's at 12PM. We were all ready to just sit back, relax and enjoy the fact that we survived block number 1. We asked our waiter if there were any drink specials. Amidst the laughter, he told us it was 12 o'clock in the afternoon. Noone drinks at this hour. Well, we did. The rest of the day involved hanging out at various people's apartments/houses.
With the first block over, GW dove right back into everything, with class at 9AM on Thursday morning. And it wasn't one of those classes you could skip... It was the one with 10 people in it, and it is more along the lines of why we are actually in medical school - interviewing. This session was a lot on the doctor-patient interactions at the beginning of the interview. So while it was cool, there were some people in our group who had the bottles of water, needed the coffee, and were just trying to stay awake.
Friday was another big day in Gross Anatomy Lab. While the first block was on the upper and lower limbs, the second block of exams is on the thorax (ie: chest) and abdomen. Therefore, we began truly diving into our cadavers. Using what is called a punch saw (I think... it's the same one they use in surgery) we cut through out cadavers ribs and sternum to expose the internal thoracic cavity. On first opening, the most obvious organ sticking out at you are the lungs. Ours had some black in them, but according to Dr. Walsh, cahhbon is cahhbon (think Bostonian accent).
And then finally this weekend, I simply took it easy. I went to dinner on Friday with a few people from med school, and then on Saturday, simply did nothing. I moved at about 0.05 mph all day and it felt absolutely amazing. I felt like the laziest person alive, and that felt pretty awesome. I then went to a classmates house that night, which was really chill and that felt really great too.
So that's about all I have for right now. I will try and be better with this whole posting thing because I know you all are waiting on pins and needles wanting to know how I am.
Wednesday afternoon for all of us turned out to be pretty funny looking back on it. We had about 25 unshowered, unshaven and just crazy medical students show up to Friday's at 12PM. We were all ready to just sit back, relax and enjoy the fact that we survived block number 1. We asked our waiter if there were any drink specials. Amidst the laughter, he told us it was 12 o'clock in the afternoon. Noone drinks at this hour. Well, we did. The rest of the day involved hanging out at various people's apartments/houses.
With the first block over, GW dove right back into everything, with class at 9AM on Thursday morning. And it wasn't one of those classes you could skip... It was the one with 10 people in it, and it is more along the lines of why we are actually in medical school - interviewing. This session was a lot on the doctor-patient interactions at the beginning of the interview. So while it was cool, there were some people in our group who had the bottles of water, needed the coffee, and were just trying to stay awake.
Friday was another big day in Gross Anatomy Lab. While the first block was on the upper and lower limbs, the second block of exams is on the thorax (ie: chest) and abdomen. Therefore, we began truly diving into our cadavers. Using what is called a punch saw (I think... it's the same one they use in surgery) we cut through out cadavers ribs and sternum to expose the internal thoracic cavity. On first opening, the most obvious organ sticking out at you are the lungs. Ours had some black in them, but according to Dr. Walsh, cahhbon is cahhbon (think Bostonian accent).
And then finally this weekend, I simply took it easy. I went to dinner on Friday with a few people from med school, and then on Saturday, simply did nothing. I moved at about 0.05 mph all day and it felt absolutely amazing. I felt like the laziest person alive, and that felt pretty awesome. I then went to a classmates house that night, which was really chill and that felt really great too.
So that's about all I have for right now. I will try and be better with this whole posting thing because I know you all are waiting on pins and needles wanting to know how I am.
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