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.