It's the Pirate's Life for Me!

Arr mateys! Aw, well, you all knew it was only a matter of time before PoTC showed up here. And no, the pirate references are, surprisingly, not due to the fact that I live in the Caribbean. No, sadly, this time it is a reference made... by the course director for Neuroscience. And perhaps even more disturbingly is that he was making a reference to the pirates code. That is, "If you stray behind, you get left behind!" O_O

Thus begins my new set of classes! We started a new set of classes yesterday (hot on the heels of the genetics and parasitology finals from monday and tuesday).

Drumroll please? Neuroscience, Physiology and Community & Preventive Medicine have entered the proverbial building!! I'm already knee deep in neuroanatomy so I thought I should write my 'first impression' entry on term 2 classes before I lose said impressions in a haze of terror of neuroscience (this haze is slowly inching over my field of vision).

First off, I would like to say that I think this term is going to be vastly better than term 1. This is for a multitude of reasons, primary of which is that I know how to study now. Yes, it was something I apparently needed to learn.

The second reason it will be better is much simpler. No Anatomy. Good riddance I say. Unfortunately though, I have not escaped studying anatomy. But at least I'm spared the egocentric professors and the lovely eau de cadaver every week.

Physio so far has been pretty easy. We've started out with really basic cell bio type material but we've been informed this grace period is just that. A grace period (that will end). I'm determined not to get caught being behind and having to scramble to keep up like I did last term.

Anyhow, sorry this is short but I must get back to memorizing gyri and sulci!

(here's hoping I end up in a better state after my second term than Jack did at the end of his second movie!)

Term 2! ....started last week

*sheepish* Hello all! I'm writing this entry at the not-so-subtle threat of a friend of mine who recently was accepted to SGU and wants more blog entries! So. Congratulations J!!!!! And here's another entry so you don't have to look at the turtle pictures any more. :)

That said, I've been seriously neglecting my blog lately. Sorry guys! Things have been pretty crazy. Let me recap. Summer = awesome times with friends and family and over all too fast. I came back to Grenada early to participate as a volunteer in an excellent programme called Ocean Spirits that does sea turtle research up on the northern end of the island (hence, the turtle pictures on my last rather short entry). A massive entry on leatherbacks will be forthcoming, however, today I thought I'd focus on more school related things (read: still need to sort through my many hundreds of pictures from my Time with Turtles).

Term 2 started last tuesday and it's proceeding at a frighteningly fast pace. I have finals next week! o.o This term starts out with only two classes, parasitology and genetics. We have a whirlwind through each course and then finals next monday and tuesday with the bulk of our classes starting on wednesday.

So far, parasitology has been incredibly interesting (as I knew it would be) and genetics has been a review. For that matter, parasite is a review as well since I had this truly awesome eukaryotic pathogen class in undergrad. At any rate, the classes are not difficult but, as usual, the amount of material is large and is being crammed into a tiny amount of time (ah, med school, how I've missed you). I've been keeping up for the most part but I need to hit the notecards hard the next few days so I'm not scrambling sunday night. <--me turning over a new leaf and not procrastinating (hey, it's happened! ....once or twice I'm sure)

I've moved back to GrandView and it has been wonderful living here again. I very much enjoyed my time last term and now I have a really nice roommate and have adopted a cat (post on him forthcoming as well) so All Is Good in the world of me. Here's a picture of the sunset over BBC beach that I took from my balcony my first night back. ^_^
And here's the view from my bedroom window. Pretty nice yes? Consider this my cessation of blog silence! More later, reciprocal translocation and giardia are calling me~

Listening to: 狼と香辛料サウンド

Leatherback Sea Turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)

In case anyone is wondering what I'm doing..... They say a picture is worth a thousand words yes? Well, here's two. The adults are 1-2 meters long people!