I kind of regret not double majoring in Microbiology/Immunology/Molecular Genetics back when I was an undergrad. But we haven't done very much of the immune system yet; I think it is all part of a big 2nd year curriculum blowout. I am pretty amped. Although I don't think I would do infectious disease, though.
I spent this morning in the anatomy lab studying gastrointestinal structures alone and listening online to the radio show I used to listen to in LA when I was driving to do my Sunday morning ER volunteering back in the day.. It was really about as relaxing as being the only living person in a room full of half-destroyed bodies can be. A+++.
― C-L, Sunday, 25 January 2009 20:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Immuno rocks! Studying it right now, it definitely matches my expectations of what I expected to learn in medical school much more than does histo (ugh).
Also, I loved going to study in the anatomy lab in the mornings when it was quieter and not every single person in my class was freaking out about an upcoming test. Very relaxing, yes.
― youcangoyourownway, Sunday, 25 January 2009 20:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, histo was my bete noir, mostly because it had a similar informational volume compared to anatomy, but little of the innate "this is RAD"-ness. I've since learned that we do histo way more comprehensively than other schools??
But yeah, immunology is way more intrinsically interesting and, well, "medical." There's something fascinating to me about how the human immune system, as distributed across the whole species, acts as a massively parallel computational array---like, the problem of producing antibodies/TCRs that actually *work* is being solved by brute force by a bazillion cells across billions of individuals, over hundreds of millions of years. I hadn't really considered ID or immunology as possible specialties, but I'm definitely considering it now.
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Monday, 26 January 2009 00:21 (fifteen years ago) link
plus i got props in class on friday from my immuno prof for saying someting 'very clever.' this is a first for me and a much needed morale boost, since i was struggggglin last semester (90% due to old, bad study habits)
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Monday, 26 January 2009 00:23 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.mpg.de/bilderBerichteDokumente/multimedial/bilderWissenschaft/2004/02/Zychlinski1/Web_Zoom.jpeg
― Lamp, Monday, 26 January 2009 04:30 (fifteen years ago) link
keep it up guys. on the new york city heirarchy, doctors always trump lawyers. especially when they're 8 inches taller than you.
― burt_stanton, Monday, 26 January 2009 04:31 (fifteen years ago) link
― burt_stanton, Sunday, January 25, 2009 10:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
ugh
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Monday, 26 January 2009 19:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Hey, you know what sucks, is having an anatomy practical exam that is given via Powerpoint slides instead of bringing everyone to stations at the Anatomy Lab. I can identify the hell out of some abdominal structures on a body, but not when I am not sure whether I am looking at the cecum or an oddly angled stomach or a folded-over colon. It is basically like finding Waldo, and then answering an unrelated question about Waldo's primary arterial supply.
Thankfully the class walked out of that exam in unison basically like \o_O/ so I guess it was not just that I am stupid.
― C-L, Monday, 26 January 2009 19:54 (fifteen years ago) link
wait what the hell? man, that sucks, C-L. we had our exam reviews on powerpoint and i was always disoriented and lost when they'd point to some bit of pelvic floor---but then at least we had artfully done-up prosections for the exam itself
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Monday, 26 January 2009 22:18 (fifteen years ago) link
like str8 alinea style:
http://www.maricazottino.com/public/alinea_bacon.jpg
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Monday, 26 January 2009 22:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Anatomy Practical Exams by Grant Achatz would be pretty awesome, come to think of it. "Which section of the lower intestine is shown here, labeled with a daring plum chutney glaze?"
― C-L, Monday, 26 January 2009 23:48 (fifteen years ago) link
btw i just finished midterms and it feels great
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Friday, 27 February 2009 23:21 (fifteen years ago) link
also, C-L do u know a dude named P3t3 (i think) that's working a clinic in M3xic0 this summer
(don't want m3xic0 googlin)
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Friday, 27 February 2009 23:22 (fifteen years ago) link
hey congratulations!
― horseshoe, Friday, 27 February 2009 23:23 (fifteen years ago) link
neuro is fukkin hard, btw
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Friday, 27 February 2009 23:27 (fifteen years ago) link
thanks!
hey horseyshoes, what is yr take on UC art history students..... JUST WONDERING FOR NO REASON
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Friday, 27 February 2009 23:28 (fifteen years ago) link
did you meet a girl? i don't know anyone in that department. my experience w/ art history girls is that they are v. v. pretty and kind of boring but i might just be jealous wrt the last part.
― horseshoe, Friday, 27 February 2009 23:30 (fifteen years ago) link
my take on UC grad students in general is that they're insane btw.
― horseshoe, Friday, 27 February 2009 23:32 (fifteen years ago) link
nah former UC art history student current doctor student
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Friday, 27 February 2009 23:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I do not think I know a dude named P3t3 who is in doctor school.
Do you guys mean UC as in University of California, btw? Because apptly Horseshoe thinks I was insane (which honestly was probably correct at the time).
P.S. RENAL 4-EVER.
― C-L, Saturday, 28 February 2009 22:33 (fifteen years ago) link
no, university of chicago! i'm sure uc students are lovely.
― horseshoe, Saturday, 28 February 2009 22:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh OK. We have a handful of Chicago undergrads. They are pretty hardcore, yeah.
― C-L, Saturday, 28 February 2009 22:42 (fifteen years ago) link
haha teaching those undergrads when i was 100% sure they all knew more than me about everything was a traet
― horseshoe, Saturday, 28 February 2009 22:43 (fifteen years ago) link
oh we start renal stuff in a few weeks, i think? i'll have to check. i'm pretending school does not exist for the next day or two
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Sunday, 1 March 2009 00:37 (fifteen years ago) link
We just finished renal (sadness). God bless Linda Costanzo - do you guys use her for physio?
― youcangoyourownway, Monday, 2 March 2009 00:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Nah, we mostly use Guyton and Hall (which I kind of love). There have been smaller specific physiology books for the lung and the kidney, also, but I am cheap and just stuck with my G&H.
― C-L, Monday, 2 March 2009 00:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Rhoades and Bell, here, but I've got a copy of Costanzo BRS book
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Monday, 2 March 2009 02:29 (fifteen years ago) link
fun facts to know and tell:
yesterday, in neuro, we learned about the vestibulocochlear motor control of eye movement. we also learned why alcohol gives you the spins---the alcohol actually gets into the endolymph of your inner ear, lowering the relative density of the cupola. it floats, which triggers compensatory eye saccades. yr eyes basically move around to follow the movements of your head *that aren't even happening*.
also neat: the reason you go from tipsy (physically), on to stable but increasing "drunk" and then back to "staggering" and "room spinning" is because the alcohol enters, equilibrates, and then leaves. so the terrible room spins you get at the end of the night are because you're sobering up!
FACTS
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 18:38 (fifteen years ago) link
post-midterm neuro is ridiculously dope, btw
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
wow gtk
― homie bhabha (max), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
also benign paroxysmal positional vertigo sounds blawful
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link
art history girls are always hotties, and always either a little crazy or a little boring
― homie bhabha (max), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 18:43 (fifteen years ago) link
also gtk
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 18:43 (fifteen years ago) link
just got this: http://www.ecostudies.org/images/scientists/Ostfeld/Infectious_Disease_Ecology_cover.gif, psyched
also, who i have to lobby to get smart loans (ie - loan repayment is based on % of income, not fixed monthly payments....good incentive for pediatricians/obs etc)
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Thursday, 12 March 2009 16:42 (fifteen years ago) link
i can give u a buck fifty maybe two bucks... 5% interest
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Thursday, 12 March 2009 16:46 (fifteen years ago) link
lemme think about it
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Thursday, 12 March 2009 16:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I used to get inner ear infections like clockwork. It's a special hell, one that involves regular vomiting and an inability to change position at all without vomiting, and an inability to walk without falling (possibly down stairs), and other unpleasant things.
― How can there be male ladybugs? (Laurel), Thursday, 12 March 2009 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link
ohhh man i dont even want to think about loans :/ lol market meltdown
― °° × Þ°))·ΞЊ (Lamp), Thursday, 12 March 2009 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link
id give u a loan but ur credit suxx sorry bro
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Thursday, 12 March 2009 16:54 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, there's been a lot of talk at school (well, w/a few ppl) about how market meltdown + possible restructuring of healthcare + less remunerative specialties could = :(
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Thursday, 12 March 2009 16:56 (fifteen years ago) link
hey i just checked my score it is solid what gives
o u can get one, no prob, lamp has a credit score of bad
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Thursday, 12 March 2009 16:57 (fifteen years ago) link
i hadnt expected to need loans since i had a fair amount of $$$ saved because i worked f/t through undergrad but ive lost some of that over the last fourteen months and my income has gone down as my living expenses went up so i havent been able to save all that much
it really sux because my financial situation is fairly different from when i first applied and im not sure what the mechanism is for reconciling that
+ acc to max my credit score is bad to madoff
― °° × Þ°))·ΞЊ (Lamp), Thursday, 12 March 2009 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link
wait so you're going for sure? :D
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Thursday, 12 March 2009 17:01 (fifteen years ago) link
u guys are going to be doktor buddies!!!!!!!!
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Thursday, 12 March 2009 17:03 (fifteen years ago) link
http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/1614/PreviewComp/SuperStock_1614R-5160.jpg
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Thursday, 12 March 2009 17:06 (fifteen years ago) link
had a convo w/classmates yesterday about dcotor school v PA school and even though PA school is shorter and you work right away and it pays well and there's a huge demand, we all realized that we couldn't bear being "bossed around" by a doc
so basically med students in self-centered non-shocker
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Thursday, 12 March 2009 17:08 (fifteen years ago) link
:-/
LOL tell me about it. I have a friend who did a 6 year pharmacy degree after high school and her second year out she is making $150,000.....
― youcangoyourownway, Thursday, 12 March 2009 21:09 (fifteen years ago) link