Queens: Day 2
Wow! The first day of my Hands-On Pathology course was frikkin awesome! But before I get to that, I would like to mention to everyone who is planning to go to Queens next year and is staying at the dorms that the beds are extremely uncomfortable, so bring a foamy thing or something. I'm sure the beds in other universities are the same so be warned!
The breakfast this morning was very fatty: bacon, fried potatoes and "scrambled eggs". I barely had any and then off to Leonard Field to find out class at 8:30 am! I found out that there were actually a crapload of people taking the same course as me so it was split into three different groups (I'm in group 3). The whole lot of us went to Stirling Hall for our introduction lecture and were split into even smaller groups for these forensic and diagnostic cases that we had to solve by the end of the week. Throughout the day, we had two other lectures: Infectious Diseases, Viruses, and we ended off with a trip to the Anatomy Museum which was totally awesome! First of all, all of the specimens were human parts and such, and as a sign of respect we were not allowed to wear hats, take pictures, chew food and do any other stupid thing while inside the lab/museum. When we first walked into there, I was just floored by the amount of human parts either turned into ones we could touch (been plastinated so it felt kindof rubbery) or in formaldehyde glass boxes. On the far end of the room was the place with all the brains and heads and few ventured there since a lot of the heads in the glass boxes stared back at you. It was kindof creepy standing next to them looking at them in the eye and it really does hit you that these specimens were human and they once alive. After looking through the room, the two med people showed us two cadavers, both old in age and female. It was very exhilerating to see these bodies because it really gave me an idea of what I'm planning to spend the rest of my life doing. They actually let us take out organs, touch them, feel them, but some pulled back because there was in fact a face that belonged to that dissected body and it scared some people.
Anyways, I thought the anatomy museum was the best thing to end the day with. Ooo! Just remembered: I also got to feel and touch a human brain that has been soaked in extremely concentrated formaldehyde. The brain is heavy and is also extremely squishy but not spongy like I thought it would be. The lungs however were VERY spongy. Afterwards, a bunch of us (meaning me and the gr. 12 guys) went shopping DT and I bought a shirt at the Army Surplus store. Anyone want to take a guess as to what the shirt says?
By the time we came back from shopping it was dinner time and I don't think I have ever eaten that much cafeteria food ever in my life, it was delicious! And then I had two enormous scoops of ice cream on a cone (a very very small cone in fact) and it took me a while to eat that. Ivan, Geoff (gr. 10) and I wanted to watch Pulp Fiction afterwards, seeing how I had a laptop and the movie, it would've been possible if we were able to find a spot where there was a room that both sexes could be in that also included an outlet. We found a common room on the first floor and everything was going smoothly until all these people started walking in and out of it, talking loudly, and then we found out that they were playing games on the gigantic television and also different board games (it was one of the activities we could sign up for). So we moved to another common room that was very close by but didn't have any sofas. We sat on the floor and all was going well again until these huge nerds came in with their magic cards and started moving around the furniture, talking very loudly again, and bothering us immensely. The three of us, well, mostly me, got kindof pissed at everybody so we just decided that this movie deserved a better audience and disbanded into our separate floors.
On a separate note, Ivan and Khash figured out the telephones so we can call each other very late at night when we can't get to bed! Yay! I hope tomorrow is just as fun because today was so frikkin awesome! I SAW DEAD PEOPLE!
The breakfast this morning was very fatty: bacon, fried potatoes and "scrambled eggs". I barely had any and then off to Leonard Field to find out class at 8:30 am! I found out that there were actually a crapload of people taking the same course as me so it was split into three different groups (I'm in group 3). The whole lot of us went to Stirling Hall for our introduction lecture and were split into even smaller groups for these forensic and diagnostic cases that we had to solve by the end of the week. Throughout the day, we had two other lectures: Infectious Diseases, Viruses, and we ended off with a trip to the Anatomy Museum which was totally awesome! First of all, all of the specimens were human parts and such, and as a sign of respect we were not allowed to wear hats, take pictures, chew food and do any other stupid thing while inside the lab/museum. When we first walked into there, I was just floored by the amount of human parts either turned into ones we could touch (been plastinated so it felt kindof rubbery) or in formaldehyde glass boxes. On the far end of the room was the place with all the brains and heads and few ventured there since a lot of the heads in the glass boxes stared back at you. It was kindof creepy standing next to them looking at them in the eye and it really does hit you that these specimens were human and they once alive. After looking through the room, the two med people showed us two cadavers, both old in age and female. It was very exhilerating to see these bodies because it really gave me an idea of what I'm planning to spend the rest of my life doing. They actually let us take out organs, touch them, feel them, but some pulled back because there was in fact a face that belonged to that dissected body and it scared some people.
Anyways, I thought the anatomy museum was the best thing to end the day with. Ooo! Just remembered: I also got to feel and touch a human brain that has been soaked in extremely concentrated formaldehyde. The brain is heavy and is also extremely squishy but not spongy like I thought it would be. The lungs however were VERY spongy. Afterwards, a bunch of us (meaning me and the gr. 12 guys) went shopping DT and I bought a shirt at the Army Surplus store. Anyone want to take a guess as to what the shirt says?
By the time we came back from shopping it was dinner time and I don't think I have ever eaten that much cafeteria food ever in my life, it was delicious! And then I had two enormous scoops of ice cream on a cone (a very very small cone in fact) and it took me a while to eat that. Ivan, Geoff (gr. 10) and I wanted to watch Pulp Fiction afterwards, seeing how I had a laptop and the movie, it would've been possible if we were able to find a spot where there was a room that both sexes could be in that also included an outlet. We found a common room on the first floor and everything was going smoothly until all these people started walking in and out of it, talking loudly, and then we found out that they were playing games on the gigantic television and also different board games (it was one of the activities we could sign up for). So we moved to another common room that was very close by but didn't have any sofas. We sat on the floor and all was going well again until these huge nerds came in with their magic cards and started moving around the furniture, talking very loudly again, and bothering us immensely. The three of us, well, mostly me, got kindof pissed at everybody so we just decided that this movie deserved a better audience and disbanded into our separate floors.
On a separate note, Ivan and Khash figured out the telephones so we can call each other very late at night when we can't get to bed! Yay! I hope tomorrow is just as fun because today was so frikkin awesome! I SAW DEAD PEOPLE!
posted by barbara at 10:46 p.m.
6 Comments:
Change the colours on your page, please!
My eyes hurt so much I can't read your entire entries in one sitting. It's the tinyness of white on black, mostly.
robyn
Queen's has an Anatomy museum?!?!?! Where the hell has it been hiding all these years?!!?! Oh, you mean the anatomy lab. Heh. Bah...I so should've gone into Life Sciences...I'm glad you're having fun though! Don't get eaten alive by the mosquitos!!
Abby
It matches her handwriting: tiny, and for the most part illegible. :)
Control + Mousewheel Down are your friends when you're reading small text and/or are tired :)
sorry! i suck at HTML so I don't know how to change fonts or anything. Just ZOOM in =P.
Actually, the size doesn't make any difference. It's the colour. I've just been viewing it in firefox with no page style.
robyn
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