Anatomy lab

Today was our first real day of anatomy lab (last time was just orientation). If you have not seen the lab, I suppose it's a decent size if you're in a 80 person or so class. However, with our class of almost 180 people, it gets small! There are about 20 tables in there right now instead of the usual 10-ish. The smell is not bad at all (at least I don't think so) and I find the temperature to be very comfortable, although i like it cold.

Unfortunately, most of the bodies have yet to arrive, so we won't be dissecting until the 2nd block. For now, we only have a couple of cadavers that they've pre-dissected for us and the rest of the tables have bones or whatever else they feel like putting out. It actually went pretty well today and every station in lab was useful, but I was looking forward to cutting. At least we'll still get to in a couple weeks. It was helpful to see all of the muscles in a real person, but we didn't get to see as much as we would have if we were cutting. I suppose we'll get there eventually, this was only the second real day of class!

If you're curious about the lab schedule...we never have lab on Friday and we're split into three groups. Only two groups are in the lab at a time (the other group can go to the beach or go to the dry lab, whatever they want). So, we've got lab either 2 or 3 days a week. Tomorrow, I don't have lab and will be using that time to study some more! We also don't have histo tomorrow (or the rest of the week for that matter), so I'll have a bunch of extra time to study tomorrow. Of course, they will still be packing on plenty more genetics and anatomy tomorrow! Speaking of studying...time to get to it....