Oof.

-sigh-
School's been making it so incredibly difficult to keep up with this blog. And you can forget about my drawing-a-day-for-a-year project...
Let's see what can I update you on.
So much has actually happened this month.  Generally good, a mix of some bad, but that's not going to stop me.
I'll start with my classes.
So far, they've been going pretty well.  Still somewhat beasting physics.  I actually JUST finished this incredibly confusing chapter, which took almost 3 days to do the problems, but I got through them, and now it's just a matter practicing them and being able to do them with no problem.  That's for this weekend.  Comparative anatomy, is still eh.  I'm starting to enjoy lab a little more each week, since now we're dissecting animals that are more and more similar to the human.  My teacher though, still dumb as a rock.  This particular teacher can't spell digits.  It's been spelled on the board as "digets."  Yeah, spell check just cried.  This teacher can't really pronounce things, and told us that the condyles are in the neck.  Quite the opposite, professor.  They're in the knees. Thank you.  Dance, is well, dance.  We stretch, jump and skip around the room for an hour and a half, and that's just about it.  My SI stuff has been consuming part of my life. I definitely take more than an hour for prep, and that's with working with the other SI leader.  I honestly don't know what I would do if she weren't helping me with all of this.
I've been preparing my schedule for next semester.  I've got Embryology, Physics II, Calculus II, and a Core class that discusses the aftermath of 9/11.  Four classes.  15 credits.  Can you believe that??  And, now I start class at 830am .____.;; this is not going to be fun.  But I get to campus anyway around that time just so I don't have to walk so far to get to my parking spot.  So really, no big difference.

And that's the academic part.
Now for the whole point of the blog.
I visited the first medical school today.  Hofstra University is opening up a brand new medical school.  Yeah. Hofstra University.  Like half an hour from my house. Yeah. Hofstra University. Brand spankin' new.  I went with a friend from school and as we drove onto the Hofstra Campus, there was a sign, right there. "School of Medicine." That's when I started to get really excited.  Then we parked, and walked up to the building.  The building is a kind of an old building.  From the outside it looks really old.   It happens to be the old site of the training center for the New York Jets.  Yes.  The New York Jets.  And they still kept some memorabilia of its past.  As you walk near the building, you can still see the old New York Jets Training Center scoreboard sign.  But, like I said, from the outside, the school looked like it was in some old building.
We decided to walk around a little bit because we were early.  We beat rush hour *thumbs up.*  So we walk around.  The school is situated in the Athletic area of the campus.  So we walked around, past the lacrosse field, pass the baseball field.  And we looked over, and saw this HUGE open field, which hands down, was bigger than the size of our current college.  Absolutely stunned, we walked back, and went into the school.
Remember how I said the outside of the building was kind of old? Well, we walked in and inside was a BRAND SPANKIN' NEW School of Medicine.  BRAND SPANKIN' NEW.  It was all modern, with a lot of natural light, new couches, new cafeteria, new desks, new chairs, and free pens and hand sanitizer :D.  The second I walked in.  I said to myself.  This is where I'm coming. 
Everything was so nice and clean, and all in that one building.  Teacher's offices, founding deans, cafeteria, vending machines.  And a cafeteria.  All for us.  Because walking to the actual food court of the school just looks like such a long walk away.  I got spoiled with the small campus.
So, all of the deans, and assistant deans that we met were absolutely awesome, and so welcoming.
I can't wait to go.  Finally, the light at the end of the tunnel.

First Test of the Semester Done

Last Wednesday I suffered through the first test of the semester, and my first Physics exam, and thankfully made it out alive, after spending hours and hours practicing the homework, only to find out EVERYTHING ELSE was what was being tested on.  But at least I knew all the theories behind everything. Sort of.  Got the test back today with a whopping 96. SOOOO HAPPY :D

Oh. And it was the highest grade of the class.  PHY 270 be ready to be absolutely pwnaged :)

Now off to studying for this absolutely horrendous and massive Comparative Anatomy exam on Friday .___.;;