Repatriated turnip.
Whoa Nelly Furtado! It's been a while since my last confession. Well I am pleased to announce I passed everything I needed to pass in my first term, and I am now 10% dentist, wohoo! Term 2 is well underway and we are frolicking in the delights of anatomy, physiology and histology. So term 1 was about atoms and molecules, then we moved on to cells, now we're taking a peak at tissues and organs, and one day, eventually, in a couple of years perhaps, we'll actually approach the mouth and teeth. I find it slightly worrying that when looking at the exams we took just a month ago I don't remember half of it - so clearly my brain is like a post-it, sticks for a bit and then falls down behind the desk. As long as it's more post-it than teflon I suppose I should be grateful.
Since I've managed to plan 2 holidays this month (well the trip to London strictly speaking wasn't planned, I decided 24h before the plane departed) I'm now desperately trying to cram as much as possible before the "dugga" at the end of this month. I can't find a good English word for dugga, but it's basically a mini-exam which tests what we've covered in the course so far. I say mini, it's actually fairly demanding and includes a lot of looking at stuff in microscopes and determining what's what. My problem is that it all looks like bacon to me. You say connective tissue of some sort, I say breakfast.
I'm still a bit tripped out over the fact that I got to handle a human brain on Friday last week. Don't worry, I won't go in to any details! Just want to say that it's amazing to think of the people who donate their remains to these types of things. It was a surreal and fairly exhausting experience, and very moving in fact. To be looking directly at what made that person everything that he or she was, said, did, dreamt, all the memories and experiences of every single moment of their life. And we still know so little about how it actually works!If you're at all insterested in that kind of stuff, I recommend this TEDtalks video of a brain researcher called Jill Bolte Taylor who had a stroke. It's pretty amazing to hear her description of what it felt like and how she was analyzing what was happening in her brain, as it happened.
Repatriated turnip.
Repatriated turnip.
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