- 6:56 AM
just a short insight into my first 2 days of official school. after my first dissection practical in our new lab coats and dissection kit, me and vaso got so FREAKED out by the tutorial we headed to the library. i'm not just a typical international student mugger, but i was talking to my housemate who's doing medicine and is local too, she was freaked out and was studying as well.
i spent so long trying to figure out the coronary arteries, till vaso pointed out the book was a little weird that we decided to stop referring to that stupid diagram. haha..
today, after my 2 lectures, which were really useless, like "introduction to Minerva" [some blackboard like thing] and "introduction to The Library" i was done of school at 11. unfortunately, i had to sift thru 265 topics for my History of Medicine essay. it's not just looking at the topic and picking out a topic thats interesting. you have to read the qn, search the library website and see if the library has book on that topic [coz some topics do not have books].
reason being, we need AT LEAST 12-20 quotations from journals, books and internet. to write a 1500-2000 essay. i initially chose History of Leprosy coz it's interesting and there were books on it. but i Srujana chose the same topic too, and it wouldn't be nice if we were doing the same topic as friends. so i went home to re-choose a topic, and i'm doing Diagnosis and Treatment of Syphilis in the first half of the 20th Century.
so for ur information, since abt 3pm till 7pm and from 10pm till 12am, all i did was choose a topic for my essay. woah, GREAT EFFICIENCY. mbbe the culture is rubbing off me. heh heh heh.
i still got to read up for the practical i did yesterday. the structure of lesson is like they show you the prosecctions/cadevers, and den ur responsible for finding out the names and functions and how to spell etc. so unlike in jc where the teacher teaches you the theory, and like repeatedly asks you like "do you understand? any questions?" and den you stone in practicals.
i'm rambling on and on and on abt my course. i shall stop. i'm off to the library to borrow reference books for my essay tmr at 9am. bleah, and its 1208am now. time to shower den slp.
though just for ur information, my housemates are having a discussion on evolution vs creationism. interesting. just 1 problem, i don't noe how i'm going to slp amongst the noise =/