The Weekend Before The Exams

Its tough, trying to think of exams from next week, precisely, next Friday. And I'm not exactly completely prepared. So I'm in major soups of all sorts. I'm really worried about Physiology. But hopefully I'll manage somehow. What I really wanted to write about was the dissection we started this week. Its the Head and Neck, and we dissected the scalp and even the brain. AND I LOVED IT ALL!!!!!! Its like one of the biggest things in my life really! Me and liking dissection and even doing it. The brain looked amazing! It looks just like the way we draw it. The other body parts differ, but this looks exactly the same, as the diagrams we take mintues to master. Guess, that really took me by surprise. I was thinking of sitting in the library today. Unfortunately, the maintenance work had to come up today itself, so well, my experience of studying in the library has to wait a little longer. Maybe Monday. I'm thinking of trying to finish with Biochem this weekend. Hopefully I'll be successful in this attempt at least. I've put pictures of our brain dissection.....Its not as gross as it looks!

Seminar Over!! Oh and also the Submission

It wasn't all that bad. In fact, I think I would have given a great presentation had I not been told to finish a 15 min gig in 7 mins. But, I enjoyed doing it. I wasn't scared at all, as I thought I might be, and it was amazing to come up with a presentation which garnered comments like, " The slides were amazing, the animation great. I wish you'd had more time." We had a situation in the middle, with one of my friends fainting and going into a fit on stage while giving his presentation. He really scared us all. But, thankfully, we got it all back. Basically, it was a good seminar. I wish we'd communicated more with the teachers. It would only have turned out better. The audience was about 50 people. We expected less, but thought that people would attend the seminar at least for the sake of attendance. Guess the thinking was wrong, but the expectation right.
The gist of it all is that I'm thankful that I took Therapeutic Uses, really grateful to Mom for doing what she did and simply enjoyed presentating my entire slide show. Even the laser beam, which hadn't worked throughout the seminar, worked for me!!
Moving over to the submission, I really thought I'd go blank when I stood in front of our batch-teacher. But, luckily, he called us in groups of three and asked Prajakta, Prabhjot and me questions whose answers we actually knew. We all got 24 out of 30, the highest in our batch. I know, I don't really deserve it, because I'm basically still clueless about Abdomen, but for the sake of a good day, I wanted the submission to go well. Didn't want it like last time, where I got a 12 and was left cursing myself all through the remainder of the day. So, 20th Dec, considered to be a sort of landmark in the last few months of year 2008, has passed and passed well. No real regrets , just a terminal exam to look forward to. Not a nice thought, but if I could manage today, I can manage that too.

4 Days For The Seminar

I know it sounds strange, but I'm more worried about the seminar than my abdomen submission, which happens to be on the same day. But I guess, when I take something really seriously, I do get worked up.
The presentation has turned out beautifully. Its actually what I wanted it to be, when I gave my name for the seminar. All thanks to my Mom, who's converted my average presentation into a delight to read, watch and teach. I'll never say this to her, but she's actually done something I can never thank her for enough. She's given yet another instance to say," You're the GREATEST Mom in the world!" Thanks a ton! I know how much work she has, and yet she can come up with time to sit and turn my presentation into what I wanted it to be. And look at me, after all the 2 o'clock nights that I put in, I came up with something that did need fine tuning. Any way, at least its done, and I'm sure it won't bore people to death.
We had revision of all the microscopic physiology pracs today. I just couldn't bring myself to prick me, and when i did, well, I simply had to do it all again. Its so wierd. Only on sunday was I thinking of how I'd managed to prick myself months back, when now, I couldn't even think of putting a pin on my skin. And hey presto!, the entire package just came up!! Well, as happens every time, my ring finger is blue-black again, and pains at a slight touch. And I'm pretty disgusted with myself and the teachers. Will definitely be glad when all this gets over.

A Month To the Exams

I know I haven't written in a long time. I've been trying to catch up with all the work I missed and trying to study hard for my exams which start on the 2nd. Luckily my batch has a great time-table. People say it is cramped up, but we finish off in a week and nothing can be better news than that. So 2nd is Anatomy, 3rd is Physiology and 5th is Biochemistry, followed by pracs on 6th, 7th and 9th. On the 6th we have Biochem, so its lucky us. We'll be able to answer decently.
In the past few days, I've been trying to work on my presentation. The Seminar's quite close and I have to get it ready by Friday, so that I can have enough practice and can pull off the coup well. I have a feeling I'll do a great job with it. Mom and Dad are helping out too, so obviouosly, it's exciting.
Which reminds me, I have officially now started watching Dad's operations. A bit of a surprise coming from me, but I had to do it and it turned out to be quite a treat. Well, not a treat, but after the dissection hall, anything is better. Only the spinal anaesthsia sucked a bit. I've had a dread for injections and that sorta shot that dread to at least 10 times more. I took the video and according to Dad it has turned out very well. I even attended a workshop on hernia, which was full of live hernia surgeries. I watched three of them. Not that I understood much, but well, all a part of the experience.
And another good news is that our street play was selected for the finals. They are to be held today, and hopefully we should win. I basically gave up on it, after a week, because it took up a lot of time and I got very tensed about my terminal preparations. But I did go and see the end product twice, and I'm glad they did what they did. Watching that street play made me feel for the first time that I was a part of BJ and proud of it.
Overall, college has been good. We don't ,or rather, are not allowed to do much of dissection. mostly its our Batch Teachers who do it all now. Leaves us a lot of time to revise. Everyone's got into the habit of getting B.D. Chaurasia to the dissection hall and read it in there. Officially speaking, its not allowed and and we got a hell of a firing from our HoD of the Anatomy Department. I have never seen him as angry as he was yesterday, screaming at us and the teachers as loudly as he could. Guess he'll never even consider liking our batch now. Just three more days to go before a glorious weekend. Looking forward to that.