Anatomy is over! Anatomy is over!

Anatomy is over! I'm still pinching myself every now and then to make sure it's real. It's not that I didn't want to learn anatomy, or that I don't appreciate gaining this body of knowledge, just that the process of learning it was so grueling.

I consistently put in 14, 15, 16 hour days, which aside from lectures and studying included a lot of time in dissection lab. Not everyone in my class studied so intensely, but I felt that I had to in order to learn the material, especially since this was my first time taking any anatomy course. Earlier today, I talked with a second-year resident who didn't go to medical school here. She was shocked when I told her that I crammed 2000+ anatomical structures/terms into my brain during a short 9 week block. "Do you even remember any of it?" Yes, despite the stress and intensity, I learned a lot, and I walk away from the Human Body block very satisfied with my educational experience.

After handing in my Unit 3 (head and neck) written exam, I played a game of ultimate frisbee with my classmates and went out with them later that night to celebrate.

Next up: Molecules to Medicine, which is a course of clinically relevant biochemistry and molecular/cellular biology.