Yesterday, Fizzy at A Cartoon Guide to Becoming a Doctor, posted an awesome comic that I probably should’ve read before writing my post yesterday: Guarantees for your First Week of Med School. It said everything I had to say about the first week, right down to the amazing highlighters I purchased. Except that I can’t draw the Krebs Cycle in 30 seconds. It would probably take me 30 seconds just to say “.. Krebs Cycle? That’s.. glycolysis, right? Enzymes? Rate-limiting steps? Oh, wait, I got this -” .
I can draw the brachial plexus in 30 seconds, though. Hell yes, anatomy.
I had high hopes for yesterday, but I didn’t end up doing anything on my to-do list. We didn’t even finish our dissection in lab (though we were dissecting the entire back, shoulder, and posterior arm in 3 hours, so I’m honestly just impressed we got as far as we did) because we had some cool clinical correlation stuff an anesthesiologist was showing us, which I couldn’t see. I skipped an optional talk that night so I could study some, but I just ended up attempting to buy groceries online and failing.
When Boyfriend called last night, I told him about some of our morning lectures, but couldn’t remember the name of the rare disease we covered, and it took me at least 2 minutes to remember what the underlying cellular problem was (it was a cytoskeleton protein. Shocking, I know, since the lectures today were all on… cytoskeleton proteins.) Anyway, he knew all about the disease immediately, so apparently it’s either not as rare as I thought, or I have more studying to do. I’ll take a wild guess and get to that studying thing now.
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