Dr. Brian Chung, a pro-snowboarder gone doctor, is our professor, but he wasn't the one to address us at the beginning of class our first day. A student called our attention, dissipating a fantastic conversation Kyra and I were having about the ethnicity of our professor, (Dr. Chung is Asian, born in raised in Canada...who taught at Yale and is now a professor at WSU in Utah....something to talk about...) when we were turned to look down at this nervous student.
He explained to us how truly difficult the class was, after having failed it 3 times, reducing his credit hours and working hours just to focus on Anatomy. He also informed us that half of our classmates were returning to take the class a second time. Needless to say, we were a tad intimidated.
Now as we go to lecture each week, I've noticed a strange growth in the flexors of my left arm and wrist, the same with Kyra's right arm. After careful consideration of the causes of such a disfiguration, we came to the diagnosis that Dr. Chung's rapid lecturing has left us with hastened writing skills, and thus, enlarged writing muscles. Seriously though, Dr. Chung lectures as if he is constantly trying to break the world record for teaching the entire human body in under two hours. And I wouldn't be surprised if he makes it one day. He breezes through powerpoint slides like Kyra does Otterpops. ;)
I've been particularly frustrated with this class on the sole basis that up until this very semester in college, I have never studied for any class ever. It was until this class that I had to finally buckle down, and form some decent study habits. Lucky guesses and previous factoids were not going to get me a passing grade in this class. Fortunately Kyra is a professional studier and showed me the ropes. It doesn't hurt to have someone to study with at all times...especially when it's time to study nerves and sensory fields....
I have to admit, for some reason I have been blessed with a particular understanding of human anatomy and all things medical. Things just stick. You're going to have to ask Kyra one of these days, because every time we study she notices and it just drives her up the wall. That's one of the main reasons I'm continuing to study medicine, (no, not because it drives Kyra mad) because i'm good at it. And I hope I can stay good at it when medical school comes around. Another reason I want to be a doctor would have to be the outstanding respect and knowledge all doctors hold. Just watch this, all from one class...
Antebrachial
Buccinator
Choroid plexus
Diaphysis
Epiphysis
Fovea
Gomphosis
Haversian canal
Ilium
Jejunum
Krause Bulb
Lucidum
Meissners Corpuscle
Nodes of Ranvier
Ovale foramen
Pectineal line
Quadratus femoris
Rectus Abdominis
Spinosum
Tactile Cells
Umbilicus
Viscera
White blood cell
Xiphoid process
Yeasts
Zygomaticus
All of these words came from only one half of a semester of beginning level anatomy, and that's not even the half of it. I do admit however that I did have to ask Kyra for some assistance. Which is perfectly fine--doctors bring in consultants all the time.
Hopefully the rest of the semester will be as successful as the first half!
