WILTIMS #25: Hello kidney!

Long day today - histo lab, histo lecture, anatomy, anatomy lab, activities fair, and an anatomy review session.

As usual, anatomy lab was fun. We dug our way to the kidney (an organ that was described in a previous edition of our textbook as shaped like a kidney bean...) which is surrounded by layer upon layer of protective fat and fascia. I then got to bisect the kidney with a knife the length of my forearm. Overkill? Never.

At the activity fair I was actually helping run a club booth with some other first years who also were somehow handed off an entire club at a 15 minute meeting with a third year yesterday. The club is the Cancer Education and Awareness Program... Project? I don't even know our name! When I wasn't manning our table, I roamed around and joined a dozen or so club mailing lists that I will probably not have time for.

One of the cool things about med school is that the clubs aren't just for runners or chess players, but also for aspiring radiologists and neurosurgeons. We'll see how much I can take advantage of these groups, but it's still exciting nonetheless.

TIL: The developing fetus actually pees out the bulk of the amniotic fluid.