The classes are from 1-2 hours long each and start at 9am/10am/or 11am Monday-Friday and finish at either 3pm or 5pm depending on how many lectures we have... and how the professors' schedules work best. [this makes sticking to a routine work-out schedule very difficult]
Any way, we have the largest class the med school has ever seen, 200 people. 120 at this campus and 80 about 2 hours away where we basically broadcast the lectures via technology.
There's a lot of technology going on here, the brand new campus and all, it gets kind of frustrating some times. We now have 3 different email addresses, 3 different IDs to get into different places on campus, and we use lots of different web sites daily in class to quiz or for lab and it all gets really confusing really fast, but I think, maybe, after 3 weeks I've figured most of it out. Maybe.
Right now we're studying for our first exam, I don't expect to do well, there's more than tons of info on this test and I just can't absorb all of it... I hope and pray I do well, but only time will tell. We have anatomy (from our thoracic lab dissections), histology (study of tissues; skin, nervous, connective), and "molecular medicine" which is biochemistry... my least favorite. The material is hard and the professors don't make going to lectures any easier, they're making a boring subject even worse.
I think it's apparent that this blog will no longer follow my exploits in Italy, but medical school, and anything else I want to add. Thanks and gig 'em.
So that's about all I have... here's a fun picture of my new puppy, Buddy, that my sister found on the side of the road and gave to me when I got back from Italy. (By the way, I miss it like crazy, the food, the friends, the fun, free time)
