Ice Cream

In undergrad, my friends and I would go get ice cream to celebrate being done with a difficult exam (plus K-state has the best ice cream place ever...if you ever go there check out Call Hall's ice cream!!!). I came to the sad realization that if I continued this tradition in dental school, I will be really fat by the time I graduate, because there are exams all the time..worse I've heard in the 2nd year.  Even though we had anatomy today, we have 2 histology exams next week and a lab practical, and a biochem exam the week after that. That's a lot of ice cream :) It's really tough to be prepared for all of them, so you just have to make the best use of your time that you can.

Mid Semester Update

Well, I apologize for my exodus from keeping up on this blog...school started and in a whirlwind of activity I was caught up in trying to stay afloat! A couple of months in- I LOVE dental school and know this is the place for me. Yes, it is brutal and very difficult, I drink coffee more than I ever did in college, but am truly loving staying busy and learning!

My class schedule is actually a little bit easier than I thought it would be originally, just because we don't have clinical rotations every week and if you aren't on rotation you get a nice big chunk of time to study. First years take about 7 classes: Dental Morphology, Human Anatomy I, Histology, Applied Biochemistry, Patient Care I, Clinical Decision Making, and a class called Transitions (where we learn about the profession essentially).

Here is a typical Wednesday!

Get butt out of bed..somehow...coffee
8AM Anatomy lecture
9-11AM Anatomy lab
11-12 Biochem
12-1 lunch
1-2 Dental Morph lecture
2-5 Dental Morph lab
go home...study..sleep..repeat!

Not every day is the same, but Wednesdays are the longest...the other days in the morning we usually have anatomy, biochem, and histology lectures straight through, and then rotations in the afternoons on Tues/Thursday... At my school D1s rotate through team clinic rotations (helping the 3/4 yr students), radiology training and then radiology (I've already learned to take X-rays on real patients! Woo!), pedo, oral surgery, and a rotation in a regional clinic.

Well, I need to stop avoiding studying for my anatomy exam tomorrow, so gotta get back on that. But, I leave you with a goofy anatomy pick up line (try it out sometime and let me know how it goes): "Hey lady..would you like to take a look at my 4 tendinous insertions into the superficial division of the rectus sheath?" ie....look at my six pack... :P I think I've been studying too much hehe... Happy Tuesday!