Comments | fahye: wtf, sydney

fahye

wtf, sydney

Feb 15, 2008 17:41

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 ( Read more... )

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baggers February 15 2008, 07:06:53 UTC

*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 February 15 2008, 08:10:03 UTC

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 February 15 2008, 08:25:02 UTC

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 February 15 2008, 08:31:23 UTC

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.

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_leareth February 15 2008, 07:13:10 UTC

Yeah, Sydney, wtf THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE SUMMER!

genarti February 15 2008, 21:33:12 UTC

Ooh, icon questions. I did not have a chance yesterday to do more than glance over them, but now:

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nextian February 16 2008, 06:12:00 UTC

OH I LOVE THIS FILM. Oh my god Cesario was a fox. Not Viola, just Cesario. Okay. Okay GOOD CHOICE. I've always wanted to do Viola's HINT HINT speeches onstage, but the closest I ever got was reading bits of it aloud in class with maybe just a little too much feeling. Sadly having 36DDDs means that no amount of binding would make this rule possible. *cries*

Just in case you haven't seen it...