wtf, sydney

[fahye]

This morning it was raining and cold so I wore a jacket to my first lecture. And by the time we had our first break, mid-morning, it was so sunny I now have incredibly sunburnt shoulders. Grrrrr. English skin and Australian UV spectra were never meant to be, but when I am given some warning I can at least wear sleeves and sunscreen

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[baggers]

*highfives dr fahye*

last night i was nerdily explaining how glycolysis feeds into the kreb cycle to... oh man, there is no way to not come off as an intellectual snob in any way i describe this co-worker, lovely though she may be. anyway, she looked at me like i was a freakin' magician, and i'm just standing there thanking every being imaginable that my brain hadn't actually melted and leaked out of my ear over the break.

[fahye]

Hahaha I could not describe the Kreb cycle if you paid me. I tried very hard to forget all of my biochem. BAD MOVE THERE FAHYE. I really need my parents to drive up with my printer and the rest of my molecular bio textbooks.

But we had a fantastic lecture which just RIPPED through homeostasis and bodily thermoregulation, and if I came from a non-science background then I probably would have been sobbing into my notepad, but it was like a delicious workout for my sluggish neurophysiology knowledge.

[baggers]

it's awesome! and so clever! the end product of acetyl-coa degradation combines with another acetyl-coa... to form the same end product! our bodies are so clever!

i honestly can not even imagine doing med school without a biology related background. even now, i seriously would not feel competent enough, but my degree is really stupidly specialised to biochem, though by mid next year i will have another anatomy and another physiology course under my belt. so maybe then. but omg, no science background, who would even DO such a thing?

[fahye]

Oh yeah, acetyl-CoA! I remember that one!

LOTS OF PEOPLE APPARENTLY? We have engineers, law students, economics students, arts students...I mean, to get a good enough GAMSAT score to get into USyd then you'd have had to pick up quite a bit of organic chem and bio, but still! Everything's been very full-on.

I envy the nurses and phsyiotherapists. They already know the clinical skills/anatomy stuff.

[baggers]

THAT'S CRAZY. maybe i will take the gamsat when i'm finished, just for shits and giggles.

you would think that, with that kind of advantage, they would be able to have some kind of fast-track through at least the initial stuff? though who knows what they have forgotten. still, unfair advantage!

[fahye]

You would kick ass at it, seriously, it's more organic chem and basic bio than anything else.

I know they like to lump everyone together because a) yeah, there are gaps in everyone's knowledge, no matter their background, and b) we do a lot of work in small groups, and it's to everyone's advantage to have some science people and some non-science people in each group.

[baggers]

Oh my god, I would make the worst doctor in the whole world. Also, I am still making serious grabby hands at ANU's forensic anthropology stuff. Also, law school? BUT WHY CAN'T I HAVE FIVE CAREERS?

That makes sense. (Oh god, I can't even imagine being a nurse. Worst. Job. Ever.)