Brain Fatigue?

After only 7.5 weeks of school I am suffering from what i like to call brain fatigue... getting my brain to work for more than 10 minutes on something other than anatomy seems nearly impossible. i find myself forgetting fairly important things like what day of the week it happens to be, yet remembering things like cranial nerve 5 is the trigeminal nerve arising from the pons and receives sensation from the face as well as control the muscles of mastication...

I am also socially fatigued. It takes between 30 seconds and 4 minutes to become thoroughly annoyed with certain classmates. I know, i know I am going to be with these people for another 2 years but really I think that more than anything I am just tired of this specific routine of life. I am sure after a couple of weeks away from my classmates I will miss them and be ready to start up again... but once I start again for Fall on August 31st... I will go pretty much non-stop until the end of June 2010. Living the dream... living the dream...

Upside... got an A+ in my Foundations class!! very exciting but really? Master's level class and they give out A+s? interesting, no?

Unbelievable

I took our second anatomy exams today. Practical at 8:30 AM. 5 cadavers, 3 to 4 stations at each body, 2 questions at each station and 90 seconds to answer. Followed by a lightning round where you get 10 seconds review at each station. I did feel like I had done and then later Cortney and I saw Chris at Caribou Coffee. He was grading and he let us know our grades. I got 3 wrong and 3 extra credit so I got 100%!!!!!

I danced a little :)

Strong Work

Chris Bise is the anatomy instructor. Pretty sure he is an ENTP and his highest praise is "Strong Work". Today I got my first one!! Standing in lab over Maurice we were inspecting the common interosseous artery and the AIN when I noticed another artery hanging out. I asked, "Chris, is this the anterior interosseous artery?" He looked up from his disection and said, "Yes! Strong Work!!" I then dance a little jig and four people asked me to show them what I saw. Now if I can just get a good grade on this exam tomorrow I will dance another jig :)