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.