Yawn. I have been yawning for the last 3 hours. I am just freaking exhausted. I had a reaaaaaaaaally long weekend followed by a test today in A&P. I could have swore to the flying teapot in the sky that I made a B on the test (due to having such a crazy weekend), but miraculously I actually made a 95. It was just strange that I pulled it off without much studying this weekend. I guess I just stayed on top of things for the most part. The really really really crappy thing is that I have a lab midterm next week along with a physics test... Booo. It's going to be pretty intense, so I will need to spend some extra time in the lab this week for sure.
I guess I could go into my crazy weekend, but I'd rather not get into it, because well I'm really too lazy to write it all out. Suffice to say that it was fun :0)
What I would like to talk about is how I've noticed caterpillars getting squished on the sidewalks at school. It's so unfair. I just want to put up a sign for a Caterpillar crosswalk. Seriously.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Friday, April 17, 2009
Bones are going to make me pee my pants
Ok, so I have a bit of an update. I made a 98 on the first A&P test. Hurrah again! I was looking over my test in lab the other day and caught two mistakes on the test. My professor counted points off for spelling peptide wrong (in which it wasn't spelled wrong), and also when you break a carb down it's called dehydration (and not hydrolysis like she thought it was). I try not to over analyze a test, but I'll be damned if I let the professor short me a few extra points that I deserve. I did get one question wrong about positive/negative feedback, and I still don't understand that stuff. Oh well.
So you would think on my day off of school that I'm studying. Well, I do plan to eventually get around to it, but I can't help a little slacking. I just drank two cups of coffee and I seriously have an urge to get another one. Plus I'm catching up on all of my favorite blogs that I haven't been able to read in a while (pharyngula, RT 101: just keep breathing, and Sometimes I breathe). All of these guys are hilarious.
Anyway, so we're starting bones next week. I've been kind of weary of this chapter since I usually flirted with the boy next to me in my health occupations class during the chapter on bones. Luckily now, I have a boyfriend to come home to every afternoon and have no need to flirt with boys in class (as I recall there's a grand total of 3 in my lab). Haha. I'll find a way to learn the bones, but it just might take me a little longer than I want. I have all the cranial bones down because I did a paper for a bio-anthro class on cranial capacity, and well, I was a nerd about it. I'll probably just have to spend a lot of extra time in the lab with the skeleton I named 'Crazy Pants'.
Let's see. Today is my first day back at the gym! I know, I know. I slacked all winter, and I have paid for that dearly. I'm trying to not eat total junk food, but it's hard when I only have ten minutes between class changes and gummy worms are the only thing left that I want in the vending machine. I kind of keep an eye on my weight fluctuations, and I've learned through experience that I would only be miserable as a size two. I am by no means a fatty. I am a comfortable size 6 who will occasionally go down to a size 4. This summer I'd be pretty happy at a 4, so that's what I'm aiming for. Celery anyone?
Anywho. I guess that's all I've got today. I have successfully procrastinated for about an hour, and any minute I will be called upon to run errands and go to the gym.
So you would think on my day off of school that I'm studying. Well, I do plan to eventually get around to it, but I can't help a little slacking. I just drank two cups of coffee and I seriously have an urge to get another one. Plus I'm catching up on all of my favorite blogs that I haven't been able to read in a while (pharyngula, RT 101: just keep breathing, and Sometimes I breathe). All of these guys are hilarious.
Anyway, so we're starting bones next week. I've been kind of weary of this chapter since I usually flirted with the boy next to me in my health occupations class during the chapter on bones. Luckily now, I have a boyfriend to come home to every afternoon and have no need to flirt with boys in class (as I recall there's a grand total of 3 in my lab). Haha. I'll find a way to learn the bones, but it just might take me a little longer than I want. I have all the cranial bones down because I did a paper for a bio-anthro class on cranial capacity, and well, I was a nerd about it. I'll probably just have to spend a lot of extra time in the lab with the skeleton I named 'Crazy Pants'.
Let's see. Today is my first day back at the gym! I know, I know. I slacked all winter, and I have paid for that dearly. I'm trying to not eat total junk food, but it's hard when I only have ten minutes between class changes and gummy worms are the only thing left that I want in the vending machine. I kind of keep an eye on my weight fluctuations, and I've learned through experience that I would only be miserable as a size two. I am by no means a fatty. I am a comfortable size 6 who will occasionally go down to a size 4. This summer I'd be pretty happy at a 4, so that's what I'm aiming for. Celery anyone?
Anywho. I guess that's all I've got today. I have successfully procrastinated for about an hour, and any minute I will be called upon to run errands and go to the gym.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Le sigh
Soo, as for the first A&P test...
1. It's over, thank the flying teapot in the sky
2. It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be
3. It was still hard, though
4. Note to self: Cural does not equal Calf, and water evaporation will not heat up body
That being said, I busted it out and made a 95! As a personal favor to myself, I am giving myself the night off (No Physics!). It's such a great feeling. I'm very proud of myself, and I won't get too cocky or anything, I promise. I'll make up for the missed study time on Friday.
So you might be wondering what festivities will be going on tonight. Well, right now I'm planning on reading my biweekly journal called "The Week" after I'm finished with this blog, and then I am going to read some David Sedaris, because he makes me giggle. There might even be a little debauchery sprinkled in here and there.
Later gators
1. It's over, thank the flying teapot in the sky
2. It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be
3. It was still hard, though
4. Note to self: Cural does not equal Calf, and water evaporation will not heat up body
That being said, I busted it out and made a 95! As a personal favor to myself, I am giving myself the night off (No Physics!). It's such a great feeling. I'm very proud of myself, and I won't get too cocky or anything, I promise. I'll make up for the missed study time on Friday.
So you might be wondering what festivities will be going on tonight. Well, right now I'm planning on reading my biweekly journal called "The Week" after I'm finished with this blog, and then I am going to read some David Sedaris, because he makes me giggle. There might even be a little debauchery sprinkled in here and there.
Later gators
Friday, April 10, 2009
Microscopes are torture devices
Hi all,
I'm starting to notice my A&P class becoming smaller and smaller. It even looks like one of the girls in my study group won't make it through the first test. I was trying to explain the phenomenon to boyfriend the other day, but he can't understand how a class of 60 people could be reduced to only 8 people passing the class. I swear to the flying teapot in the sky that I will be one of those 8 students. The only explanation I can come up with is that a lot of the students underestimate the difficulty of the class and don't devote the necessary time it takes to learn the material. Anyway, I really need to focus on doing well on this first test. My goal is to make at least a 95%. It's def do-able.
So. The title of the blog needs a bit of explaining. First, a bit of background on my life thus far with a microscope. My mom's a med-tech supervisor at a lab, and during my childhood I would get to run around the lab with slides of stained red blood cells, and get to look at the macrophages of a patient with leukemia. Mom was pretty good about trusting me with their microscopes and I know how to focus a slide like a pro. Now fast forward to yesterday. We had our lab on tissues/mitosis. Our lab runs about 2 hrs long, and during those whole two hours I was staring into a microscope focusing, drawing, and explaining the slides. After about the first hour I was kind of dizzy, and by the second hour it had been like I was shoved into a centrifuge for twenty minutes. I had such a headache and could not focus my eyeballs on anything. I suppose I must get used to this experience, because I've got another lab exactly like this one next week. Woohoo!
So today is my day off from school. I'm drinking coffee and pretty happy in my little corner. Eventually I need to get to studying some material on chemistry, but that will come after lunch. I'm considering taking Saturday night off of work, because last week I spent WAY too much time there and I have the A&P test on Monday. Hopefully Boyfriend's super-duper smart brother-in-law will be at Easter lunch on Sunday so I can get him to explain what the hell Vectors are. My Physics has been suffering due to so much time devoted towards A&P.
I'm actually fairly lucky. I have noticed a lot of the people in my classes have children or work full time. I'm not saying that having children is bad, but when you have a responsibility like that, other school-related responsibilities can be pushed aside to make room for the little ones. Anyway, rock on for birth control.
Well, my coffee's gone, so that means I get to start studying.
I'm starting to notice my A&P class becoming smaller and smaller. It even looks like one of the girls in my study group won't make it through the first test. I was trying to explain the phenomenon to boyfriend the other day, but he can't understand how a class of 60 people could be reduced to only 8 people passing the class. I swear to the flying teapot in the sky that I will be one of those 8 students. The only explanation I can come up with is that a lot of the students underestimate the difficulty of the class and don't devote the necessary time it takes to learn the material. Anyway, I really need to focus on doing well on this first test. My goal is to make at least a 95%. It's def do-able.
So. The title of the blog needs a bit of explaining. First, a bit of background on my life thus far with a microscope. My mom's a med-tech supervisor at a lab, and during my childhood I would get to run around the lab with slides of stained red blood cells, and get to look at the macrophages of a patient with leukemia. Mom was pretty good about trusting me with their microscopes and I know how to focus a slide like a pro. Now fast forward to yesterday. We had our lab on tissues/mitosis. Our lab runs about 2 hrs long, and during those whole two hours I was staring into a microscope focusing, drawing, and explaining the slides. After about the first hour I was kind of dizzy, and by the second hour it had been like I was shoved into a centrifuge for twenty minutes. I had such a headache and could not focus my eyeballs on anything. I suppose I must get used to this experience, because I've got another lab exactly like this one next week. Woohoo!
So today is my day off from school. I'm drinking coffee and pretty happy in my little corner. Eventually I need to get to studying some material on chemistry, but that will come after lunch. I'm considering taking Saturday night off of work, because last week I spent WAY too much time there and I have the A&P test on Monday. Hopefully Boyfriend's super-duper smart brother-in-law will be at Easter lunch on Sunday so I can get him to explain what the hell Vectors are. My Physics has been suffering due to so much time devoted towards A&P.
I'm actually fairly lucky. I have noticed a lot of the people in my classes have children or work full time. I'm not saying that having children is bad, but when you have a responsibility like that, other school-related responsibilities can be pushed aside to make room for the little ones. Anyway, rock on for birth control.
Well, my coffee's gone, so that means I get to start studying.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Tired
I'm tired, you're tired, we are all tired. Do you ever reach that point when you're brain just says 'Screw you, I'm not learning anything else today. Why don't we go play on facebook instead of learning about Mitosis?' Well, that's about where I am right now, except I'm not playing on facebook, but writing on this blog, instead. Are you happy now brain?
When I first started thinking of going into this respiratory program I knew that my social life would pretty much come to an end. I think that's safe to say. I have cancelled on two events in the last week, and I'm sure my friends hate me now. What can I say, getting good grades right now is more important than taking shots of patron and bonding with the ladies. Sigh. I will miss you patron.
Anyway, I am escaping the loft tonight to go get pizza and see "I love you, man". Yes, I do have a test next Monday, but you better be sure I'm spending all day on Friday studying for it :)
Adieu kids
When I first started thinking of going into this respiratory program I knew that my social life would pretty much come to an end. I think that's safe to say. I have cancelled on two events in the last week, and I'm sure my friends hate me now. What can I say, getting good grades right now is more important than taking shots of patron and bonding with the ladies. Sigh. I will miss you patron.
Anyway, I am escaping the loft tonight to go get pizza and see "I love you, man". Yes, I do have a test next Monday, but you better be sure I'm spending all day on Friday studying for it :)
Adieu kids
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
The Start
Well, I've officially been underway with my prereq classes for a week now. I only have four mandatory classes that have to be finished before I can apply to the Res program (A&P, Physics, A&P 2, and Microbio). Right now I'm taking A&P and Physics. I am used to the semester system, so moving from that to a quarter system is going to take a bit of getting used to. It's already moving 3x as fast. The material isn't necessarily hard, but I just have a shorter amount of time to learn it in. I already have a test in A&P next Monday.
I have met about 6 people that are going for the 25 slots in the Respiratory program. I'm sure that there are already about 2 or 3 people that are already in the slots for next March. I am just hoping that I can get these classes done by the end of the summer so I will have a better chance at getting in. The longer that I wait to finish, the less chance I have at being considered. A good number of the potential res therapy people are in my classes already. We've all kind of grouped up, which is good to know that these people are going to be with me in the program next March.
I've picked up on a little bit of competition among the A&P students already, which is naturally good for the production of good test results. My aim on Monday is to be in the top 10% of the class. I think that I'm very capable of that. Just have to study a lot... more.
The drive to school is not too terrible. I'm going against traffic, and I try not to leave anytime close to rush hour. I don't know how well I'll fair next quarter, but for right now it's only about a 30min drive. I'm scared of the gas prices for the summer, because I drive a gas guzzler. We shall see how that turns out...
Right now I'm very happy with the decision I made. I wish that I had the sense to do this right when I got out of HS, but I thought that University was really the right direction for me. It took a recession and a lack of goals to put me where I am today. I made a few mistakes, but what I've learned from them has put me in a better position.
The campus is a whole lot different than what I'm used to. It reminds me of the smaller community college I went to right after I graduated High School, except it's a little less (what's the word...) refined? Maybe I'm just too much of a snob, but I don't find spit cups or inappropriate language interesting. I won't have to deal with that aspect too much once I get into the Res program, so I will just deal with it now.
I'm off to Physics class!
I have met about 6 people that are going for the 25 slots in the Respiratory program. I'm sure that there are already about 2 or 3 people that are already in the slots for next March. I am just hoping that I can get these classes done by the end of the summer so I will have a better chance at getting in. The longer that I wait to finish, the less chance I have at being considered. A good number of the potential res therapy people are in my classes already. We've all kind of grouped up, which is good to know that these people are going to be with me in the program next March.
I've picked up on a little bit of competition among the A&P students already, which is naturally good for the production of good test results. My aim on Monday is to be in the top 10% of the class. I think that I'm very capable of that. Just have to study a lot... more.
The drive to school is not too terrible. I'm going against traffic, and I try not to leave anytime close to rush hour. I don't know how well I'll fair next quarter, but for right now it's only about a 30min drive. I'm scared of the gas prices for the summer, because I drive a gas guzzler. We shall see how that turns out...
Right now I'm very happy with the decision I made. I wish that I had the sense to do this right when I got out of HS, but I thought that University was really the right direction for me. It took a recession and a lack of goals to put me where I am today. I made a few mistakes, but what I've learned from them has put me in a better position.
The campus is a whole lot different than what I'm used to. It reminds me of the smaller community college I went to right after I graduated High School, except it's a little less (what's the word...) refined? Maybe I'm just too much of a snob, but I don't find spit cups or inappropriate language interesting. I won't have to deal with that aspect too much once I get into the Res program, so I will just deal with it now.
I'm off to Physics class!
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