First of all I went to school today to take a practice test, and I'll probably go back tomorrow to study some more. But perhaps more seriously, I needed to look up something about the radius, so I googled it. And the first results were about the radius of a circle and I found myself momentarily confused. "What is this radius that is not the ( Read more... )

"I want to teach you 2 things. Everyone should know them but I cannot teach everyone because I am not on national television ( Read more... )

Today Andrew went through our class composite and highlighted everyone's names based on a color-coded system detailing who is married, engaged, etc. We have 17 married people, and lots of "taken" people. All told, only about 10 single guys, and quite a few single girls. Intereting odds. We're going to need a new color when people within the ( Read more... )

The first test is this Friday. It's in Devo (Developmental Anatomy) but it's difficult to get motivated since everyone says it's a waste of time. Plus, Devo is worth 3 credits, while Gross and Biochem are worth 9 each (ICM and FOD are worth 2 each, for a total of 25) so it doesn't make as much of a GPA impact ( Read more... )

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(4 Alabama grads are discussing the preseason AP Poll, in which UA is for some reason ranked 24th ( Read more... )

My anatomy professors kept me after class today. Well, after-after class, since several of my fellow students kept me after class, going over the blood vessels and nerves my group teased out of the axilla. Anyway, the powers that be wanted to know if I have aspirations to be a pathologist. If not, they say, perhaps I should consider it ( Read more... )

Our anatomy teachers hate teaching developmental.

"First do no harm" isn't actually in the Hippocratic Oath.

It's ok to talk about your patients as long as they don't overhear you.

And the most important thing in being a doctor is, "Don't sleep with your patients."

Frank: "Why does nobody want to sit next to me? Do I smell funny? I shower one and a half times a day!"

Andrew: "How do you shower one and a half times?"

Frank: "It's an average."

Anna: "Maybe it's like when you don't wash your hair."

Frank: "It's an average. Some days once, some days twice."

Marissa: "But Frank doesn't have hair. ( Read more... )

First of all, Med Student Research Day was sooo boring. The presentations were long, the keynote speaker was dry, and the poster session was hot and stuffy and crowded. Plus, all I could think about was leaving the next morning. Suffice it to say, I didn't win ( Read more... )