Friday, July 29, 2005

On Friday's, the second year students monopolize the simlab for their removable prosthodontics course, so the first years can't get into do any work until 5pm. We were in lecture all day again.

Biochem was business as usual. After about 30 minutes, most of the class was either asleep or browsing the internet. We finally finished a two part lecture covering the structure of proteins.

After a short break, we were back in room 308 for more anatomy. Dr. Burk presented a two hour lecture on the central nervous system. About 2/3 of the way through, the fire alarm went off and we all had to evacuate. Nobody was upset about that.

After lunch, we went back to room 308 for another anatomy lecture. This time the topic was the vertebrae and the spinal cord. After the lecture, we went upstairs to the cadaver lab. Today was our first day in that lab. We met our cadaver and learned about his health, occupation, and cause of death. Our cadaver died of pancreatic cancer, heart failure, and a handful of other causes. Because of the pancreatic cancer, his skin turned an alien green color.

On Monday, we leave for our first year retreat. Each class has an annual retreat. It's usually one or two nights at a fun location. So, I'll be gone until Tuesday night. On Monday night we go bowling after a series of lectures. On Tuesday morning, I'm going golfing with some other students and faculty. Should be fun.

And, I'd like to thank everyone for helping to get the troll banned.