Still studying...

I decided to break a (non-Africa) record and post 2 days in a row.

Studying is going much better today...that's because my stress level has increased (how weird is it that that's exciting to me? What kind of warped reality am I living in??) and also because today's topics of study are much more interesting. I'm much more inclined to enjoy memorizing the anatomy of all the different minutia of the spinal cord than learn about sensory receptors. It's the anatomy thing.

Pathways are fun too. I'm going to memorize how information gets from your fingers to your brain. Not as simple as one would think it should be. But fun to know.

We had a lecture on the visual pathways yesterday and wednesday....this stuff is SO INCREDIBLY complicated they can't even teach us a fraction of what they know, which is only a fraction of what there is to know. How people think I'm stupid for believing that God designed this is beyond me. How can you think this incredible level of organization and complication and things crossing over and combining and separating and coming back together to give you all the different things we can see (the presence of an object, it's color, it's size, it's distance from your face, it's contrast, it's movement, it's direction of movement, it's orientation in space, whether a sound is coming from it or somewhere else...) happened by accident? If the most intelligent thing on earth - the human brain - cannot even comprehend how the visual pathways work, what makes you think that something that cannot reason (Chance) came up with it?

oh well. their loss.

anyway.

Here's an interesting tidbit: If you cut the spinal cord just a little bit, you will lose your sensation of pain and temperature on the opposite side of the body from where you cut. (for everything below the cut) But you will lose your sense of fine touch and awareness of where your limbs are in space, on the same side of the body as the cut.

IT IS SO GORGEOUS OUTSIDE i just want to go sit and nap in the sun like a cat, but I need to study and I can' t see my laptop if i sit outside plus there's no desk so it's really annoying because the SMELL of the breeze is coming in my window and making me crazy.

Ok back to the grind.

ACCEPTED!

Wahoo!! Got into medical school FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY THANK YOU JESUS!!

I was home for the weekend because, well I'm always home for the weekend, but my auntand cousins were in from Ohio and we had a surprise shower for one of them, and so I ha just gotten back from my long happy family weekend when I got an email. It was aaaaawesome! The only black mark on this whole thing is that I wish I could have told my Grandpa, in person, before he died. It was 2 months to the day after he died, and he wanted it so badly for me. I think he knows, but I wish I'd have been able to tell him myself and hear him laugh the way I know he would have when I told him.

So yeah.
I've accepted the acceptance and I am so excited and looking forward to FINALLY achieving one of my lifelong dreams - taking gross anatomy! (What a nerd!) And I'm excited about TA-ing histology, because I LOVED histo and I love the idea of teaching it...and a million other things. :)

I'm also moving forward with the Air Force, so I'm praying that there are still some scholarship spots left for this year, even though it's late, so I can get that going. It will be nice to have them paying me, I could use money. :-p

I'm supposed to be studying for my first Neuroscience exam of this block but find myself seriously lacking motivation. It's on Monday, and normally when there are so few days left I'm in super focused study mode but NOT SO this time. I don't think it has much to do with the med school acceptance because I felt this way at the beginning of the block...and it's not because I don't like it, because I didn't feel this way during biochem and I hated biochem. I don't really dislike it...but a lot of it i'm just like "meh"

We've done some development of the brain/spinal cord, brain/spinal cord anatomy and nuclei and tracts, olfaction, some visual pathways, the thalamus, ventricles and CSF, sensory perception, reflexes, propropception, and cerebral circulation.

That's a lot of stuff. I guess I have to just suck it up. but REGARDLESS I'm going to MED SCHOOL!