Studying in med school is often compared to trying to drink from a firehose. After years of trying to get here, I feel like I've just climbed out of the desert in search of a drink only to nearly drown in the torrent of water.
I'm not the only one though. After returning from lunch today, our professor paused to comfort us. Apparently as we left the auditorium that morning, we looked so shell-shocked that he felt he needed to say something to calm us. Yes, it is a lot of information, but we will be covering it several times, from multiple perspectives and we are not expected to know it all right away.
Later, we fired-up our microscopes in our first histology lab class. It's been a while since I've used one (how many years ago was Intro Bio again?), but it is fun to have actual slides rather than digital ones on the computer. And boy do we have slides! ~95 actually.
Later, we fired-up our microscopes in our first histology lab class. It's been a while since I've used one (how many years ago was Intro Bio again?), but it is fun to have actual slides rather than digital ones on the computer. And boy do we have slides! ~95 actually.
TIL: The vast majority of the time you want to have the microscope's condenser as raised as possible. One of the few exceptions to this rule is when you want to detect reflective features. As an example: arteries and veins can be easily and conclusively differentiated by the reflective intima layer of the arterial wall.
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