Rhodesia

Rhode Island is a different world. It’s been difficult to acclimate to the whole setting so far—the driving, the people, and simply being so far away from “home.” The people—and by “the people,” I mean, the townies—are strange. Everyone acts like they have something to prove… and most do it stupid and ridiculous ways. Revving bike engines, shouting in the streets, cutting out you off for the sake of cutting you off… its daily here. Pedestrians make cars their bitches here. Yesterday I had a guy walk out in front of me right as the light turns green (pretty common), then continue to block me off as he crossed the other side of the street (I was making a right) as slowly as possible. People let their kids perch right next to the curbs of busy mainstreets. Weird man, I tell you.

Class is interesting but draining. A lot of the material is review right now, but they keep adding on new proteins and molecule names we’ve never studied before. I understand the big picture of it all, and most of the major details, but worry about how much of the minor details I’ll be expected to remember for the test (which is on Friday next week—ergh). What I do like is that we’re starting to transfer into the “real” schedule, away from the full-lecture based schedule. Tomorrow is day two of Doctoring, where we learn to interview patients, take physical exams, etc. I’m really looking forward to it since I feel it should come naturally to me, after all the time I’ve spend watching doctors do it. It’ll be fun to finally be the one asking ALL the questions (and not just , “do you smoke?”).

We also start *real* anatomy this week. I got my cadaver information today— apparently he was college educated engineer that lived to the ripe age of 100 and died of cardiac arrest. We also got… well, you can see below. Pretty nifty, and 100% real.