Today for some reason I was feeling a little over confident. We all know that is a terrible way to be.  I was just feeling like I was prepared for finals not prepared enough to not study but just preparing well so far. I especially told that I had everything down in histology since I did so well in the practical.  Wrong way to be.  I made an appointment with a friend to meet with the clinical tutor and go over some histo slides. Why did I not know the slides I was looking at and asked to identify majority of the time. Even when I did, I had no reasoning behind I just knew it.  I was simply not thinking.  This has never happened to me before.  I was thinking but I really wasn’t . I was just stuck somewhere in limbo.  I was crushed. so crushed I called Mas and was about to cry over the phone and he asked me is it something really bad and I said to him “no” but you know how I am. Those of you that know me know that my lacrimal gland (gland that produces tears) is used a lot.   But anyways, that was my rude awakening today.  I am fine now but got lots and lots to study. 

hmm.. that’s it for now. 

I just got done with my last histo lab in medical school.  I am gonna really miss my lab group they were genuinely happy people.  We were always so happy to see each other at 8am monday mornings. I’m gonna miss every sunday night I prepared for my presentation the following day.  Some of the tissues I had to present were the Anterior and posterior pituitary glands, Choroid body, Lymph Nodes etc.  I really think I learned more in histo lab than I did in class.  I liked the way they promoted self study prior to lab that helped to cement a lot of the information.  I am also gonna miss my fellow nigerians in the lab that were working there has clinical tutors. They new their histo like the back of their hands.    If all goes well with everyone, we will probably be in the same group in Pathology lab during our 4th  year but I guess for now, I just have to be content with seeing them once in a while in lectures.  With that said,  finals are getting closer and to make it more obvious we have a histology mock practical in lecture today and mock practical for anatomy on saturday.  WOW… first term is coming to an end. I am glad that right now I can smile and say Thank God I am alive and that I have stayed strong through the tough times.  A lot of students that started with us are no longer with us. I say Rest In Peace for one of our classmates that died suddenly and farewell to those that had to leave for one reason or another.

Now, its time to hit the books and study as much as I can before class at 1pm. Thank God for my first term.

Stay blessed.

I am glad that the term is  coming to an end, but I also feel a little pressure as anyone can imagine as we head into finals week.  I am doing my best and I pray that my best is good enough.  I have anatomy lab in just about an hour and I am taking a short break from watching dissection videos. I am glad that I know most if not all of the structures I am expected to see in lab today.   This dissection videos are a good preview to what we see in lab.  The dissections of the head and neck have been so poorly managed by us students that I am beginning to think most of our practical questions will be coming from Rohen’s Atlas (Photographic atlas of the human body) and x-rays.  I can’t really stand those but I guess I better get used to it, since they are extremely important for diagnostic processes.  My roomie has been sick all week, doctors say she must have a viral infection but I remembered that years ago I heard a joke that says ” a viral infection is what doctors say you have, when they have no idea what the heck is wrong with you” I hope she recovers soon, so she can hit her books heavily for finals. 

Short break is over, gotta head back to dissection videos. 

Today is Carribean day at our school, I will try to attend the ceremony. I am not sure if I deserve it though.. hmmm .. I think I do

Stay blessed.

On Monday we had a biochemistry quiz. Biochem department is the only department to give such a quiz.  Histology and Anatomy department keep their quizzes online.  Ok, so we had this quiz on Monday but as usual medical students studied like crazy for it myself included. You would have thought it was our biochem final.  

 I studied all day saturday and sunday for it and even the  morning on. Anyways, Its 12:45pm on Monday, and we all go to bell hall and as if it is a midterm or final, they had all students locked out until they were ready for us to take the exam. They eventually opened the doors after 1, mind you the exam was set to begin at 1pm.  They opened the door and started seating us, Dr. C was acting really crazy; yelling and directing people like crazy I couldn’t stop laughing.  It was a 10 questions quiz and we were giving 15minutes to complete it.  I got a 100%.  Ofcourse, I had a big smile on my face but deep to that smile I was thinking, what craziness!

 In anatomy yesterday, we received lectures on the eye, nose and the pterygopalatine fossa.  It was only a 2 hour lecture but it felt like I was in there for about 4 hours.  Dr. H was lecturing and being that he his an ENT doctor he had  an excessive amount of information. It was interesting nevertheless. Most interesting thing, the nose is a lot bigger than we think

Okay, its time for me to catch up on some embryo. Whoopee! (not)

Stay blessed

I recently got on the skype bandwagon. Its the best thing yet as far as making international calls or local calls. Its so nice to be able to call your next door neighbor without having to pay anything.  Its gonna save me a lot of money.  Its the end on of another weeks and we have just 2 weeks filled with lectures and then the last hoorah to finals week begins. Its okay though, I have been keeping up with my work and I just need to continue to do that.  its very good that I have my computer back now I can look at all those lecture slides in the comfort of my room.  Fridays are the toughest days to study because you feel like you’ve studied all week and now you finally get a break, but it isn’t so you have to study because its really an extra day for you to get more work done or even attempt to be ahead of the class if that is even possible.  Yesterday was Ayo’s (brother) birthday.  didn’t get a chance to say Happy Birthday to him :sad: but I thought about him all day. I miss him and iyanna very much. It is almost time to come home anyways.

 

I hate to say it but I was knocked out in class today.  Although Dr. P is very interesting, the subject as important as it is and as amazing as the events that occur are it is still extremely boring.   Today, even after getting enough sleep I was not able to keep my eyes open in class.  

On another note, it is so nice to have skype on my computer. Now I can talk to my friends over the computer for free. As in actually call them with my computer. I just got off the phone with Diggity.  I miss her so much but its nice that I can actually hear her voice.  Its getting pretty late  and  I must get to bed.  I really need to go grocery shopping. I don’t even have cereal.

It was a good weekend because  I got my charger in the mail and I was very happy. You should have seen me, I was like a little kid going to the ice cream shop.  I was also surprised with several  movies and music which I enjoyed.  Haven’t seen any movies yet but I can’t wait till I get some free time.  Studied all weekend as usual, trying to stay on top of things can be very tiring at times.  Thats alright though, only a few more weeks till its time to come home.  I decided to upload an audio book onto my ipod.  I just find that some nights right before I go to bed so I got an audiobook “How to make people like you in 90seconds or less.”  I hope it will be interesting. 

I am getting kinda tired, its getting late and still planning to work out tomorrow morning. So I’ll stop here.

Stay blessed!

The head and neck section we’ve all been dreading is finally here.  Today was our initiation into that region and I must say it wasn’t too bad. Hopefully things will stay that way.  I remember telling Diggity a few weeks ago that anatomy is not so bad and she said to me “Wait, till you get to head and neck” I can’t wait to hear what advice she has for me concerning that region she always has some good ones. I wonder if she has any advice concerning what med students do when they have their summers off. Well, I’ll have to think about that later.  Finally done with molecular biology section of biochemistry, thank God.  I didn’t like that section at all but am glad I didn’t fall behind on my work.  It was nice to get a lot of work done today but now its night time and I have to continue with more work.  Think I might be getting my charger tomorrow.  I can’t wait.  I miss my computer so much.  Gotta go while the night is still young.

 

Stay Blessed

I like biochemistry to a certain point, but for the past week I have just been reminded about how much I can’t stand molecular biology. Today, the professor might as well have been speaking in a foreign language. Everytime he would ask the class if we understood, majority of the class had blank expressions on their face. What does this mean? It means I am going to have to attempt to teach myself tonight before going to him for questions which I am sure there will be.
So in anatomy lecture today, the sexual innuendos continued this time with props but I think I am actually getting used to it. She actually showed a freeze frame of an episode of seinfeld were George had been in the pool and as he returned to the room to change a woman walked in on him while he was naked and George yells ” I was in the pool” but the woman just laughs. If you are a Seinfeld fan I am sure you’ve seen that one. Diggity, I know you have since you have all the seasons.
Today in anatomy wet lab, I had the opportunity to see what the inside of a bladder, penis and uterus looks like. It was not how I expected it to be. I have to keep reminding myself that in pictures objects do not appear as they are in real life. well, I have to go study my molecular biology.

stay blessed.

Ok, so we have moved on to the perineum in anatomy, which is pretty much everything below our hips, which ofcourse includes reproductive organs.  We’ve had two lectures so far but the last lecture took an uncomfortable turn.  The lecture has is being given by who I think is actually a PhD candidate here at sgu.  Don’t get me wrong she’s a very nice lady but I am surprised by the lack of professionalism in the classroom  at times.  Well, yesterday she made several sexual comments when she talked about nerves that innvervate female and male reproductive organs such as: (S2,3,4) keeps the penis off the floor.  She also  talked about prostitutes, pimps, what high school kids do the night of their prom and what the members of the high school marching band wish they did that same night.   It is quite funny but it got to the point of discomfort yesterday which I noticed in the faces of some of my peers in class while we were all cracking up.  I was not actually offended by her many sexual remarks but I still thought that being the profession that it is she should notice her demographics and be sensitive to all.   But that’s just a tidbit of what happens here sometimes, i guess many students or other professors might not see anything wrong with that.  I know one of my study group partners didn’t and actually found it to be helpful to retaining the information. 

I think the bleach has finally stopped smelling.  This morning when I got out of the shower, I didnt smell any so that’s definitely a good thing.  A little less than six weeks before school is over for the term. Looking forward to coming home. 

 Computer still in a coma since I haven’t had a chance to charge it for almost a month now.  I am sure its been feeling unloved.  Maybe I should talk to it like people do to patients in a coma. (that’s not a joke).  What i miss the most is being able to change songs on my ipod. I have been listening to the same songs for way too  long.  I need a change.  Thank God my roommate hooked me up with some soca music.