Post-midterm pre-final's slump

As the title indicates I've entered into a slump of a sorts. I'm far enough away from midterms that the 'must study or die!' feelings have dissapated but not close enough to finals to re-enter the pre-test freak out. Historically this is the time during which I study the least. >_>' Which is probably bad. Ah, well. I will attempt productivity after this procrastinating by writing this blog entry.

The second half of the term is turning out to be the carbon opposite of the first half. In physio we already finished the behemoth that is pulmonary. Can we say graphs? It turned out to be surprisingly workable though. I was worried since many people I'd talked to were really making it out to be difficult. The professor who taught the module though, Dr. Clunes, did an excellent job in helping us understand the material. I was sad to the see the module end. We since moved on to renal which is proving to be a tad less interesting. More to memorize and less to understand I suppose. What I'm really apprehensive about is endocrine. Mainly since it will be the last module we do and will involve quite a bit of memorization. Bleh. I hate that. Give me a complicated graph to work out any day over a list of hormones or muscles to memorize! Suffice to say, I've spending most of my time making sure to keep up in physio since I know endocrine awaits me at the end so I won't have any extra time to go back.

In contrast Neuro has slowed down somewhat. The first week or so was pretty dense, what with going through the major motor pathways (complex and integrated, hardly a part of the brain not involved in movement somehow) but since they we've transitioned over to 'softer' topics such as as metal diseases, emotions, memory and the like. I say softer since we really only have ideas and theories about all these things so there are less concrete things to memorize. All in all though it's been extremely interesting.

As predicted immuno has kinda picked up. We did a brief overview of immunodiagnostics by one of the micro professors and now have moved on with a guest lecturer to talk about autoimmunity, hypersensitivity, tumor immunology and the like. This past week in immuno was the first that I felt like I was actually learning something in that class! Which means that I should probably start studying immunology so I'm not killed by the final. Hm. Right. I'll do that in my free time.

At any rate, things are moving along at a decent clip these days. I'm just ready to go back to the states. MUST GO HOME! I've fallen to the isolation of this place. I absolutely cannot wait for winter break. And winter. Since you know, it has remained hot and sunny here. It's the neverending summer!

Listening to: はじまりの日「テガミバチ」