Pre-exam thoughts

Sometimes I get kind of bummed with my day(s). I do spend a lot of time in class. However, I love this stuff so much. I can actually say I walk away from the school day with a greater understanding of the material. School is actually reinforcing knowledge from the books, as well as presenting and clarifying it. I enjoy what I am learning, for the most part. Anatomy I am not so crazy about, but that's because it's all so - surgical, I think. All the clinical correlations tie into surgery and while it's mildly interesting to read about where incisions are made, it's not really my thing. I understand why this is important though, and I like how it's all coming together in my head.

And boy, I don't miss problem sets. I cannot emphasize that enough.

Some people from the old premed message board repeatedly stated "the first two years are a bunch of crap, you just have to memorize that stuff because they make you" or some kind of variation on that theme. I think they are very wrong. My mom could answer every practice question I gave to her and had fielded all the vocab I threw at her while I was home for Labor Day. You don't remember these facts if you aren't using them - they are just too abstract to retain over thirty years - unless you use them semi-regularly. So, I am convinced. This stuff is important.

Life is good. Let's see if I feel the same way on Monday evening.