So, i am guessing we've all registered for our classes for next semester...i wanted to start a thread where everyone taking the course can come together to ask questions they need help with or just vent or LOL....watever the case may be...so if you are taking A&P 1 in the spring...introduce your self...
a. How many credits you are taking next semester
b. What part of A&P 1 you are looking forward to, are you nervous?
c. How long you have to apply?
d. Some random thing about you?
Lets gooooooo................
Check this thread for some amazing notes by a member.... Polka-dot.(You Rock!!)...for notes on A&P....and welcome to anatomy heaven...:)
nohika, Im so sorry to hear about that. I understand that must be difficult to think about your classes right now. Last year my husband was in a bad accident and in the hospital for 5 days when I was 2 classes away from my final exams in an 8 week Algebra class. I missed a class and lost a lot of sleep taking care of my kids , studying and going to and from the hospital all the time. I hope you are able to get back on track soon.
Have you talked to your Mom about the way you feel? I have a daughter your age and she is pre-med at University. I have not tried to steer her toward any direction but I have been guilty of trying to deter her from med school. I have my own reasons but for the most part just let it alone, because I know at her age she may change her mind a couple times. I think your Mom just wants what she thinks will be a good life for you. If not nursing , than what else would interest you and allow you to put your pre-reqs to use?
I told my mother I was interested in vetmed and she started laughing at me. So. I've tried talking to her again and again and again and it's always the same result - I get mocked for not picking one thing and sticking to it and how I'm a "loser because I've been in college for so long" and "back in her day I'd be done already", etc. It upsets me tons and I'm considering just doing the nursing degree to get out of there and away from her. I just...it upsets me (and some people who support me the most) that I'm doing something just because she wants me to. It ruins my chances for financial aid in the future since I'd have a degree, and so many other things...
I think I'd love to be a vet-tech...but she informed me that it's not worth it since "prostitutes make more". Beyond that, I think veterinary medicine is where I'd like to be. Still interaction with people, which I'm okay with, but there's the health aspect for the animals...I've always liked diagnostics, but it hit me a couple weeks ago that there's no way in five heavens I'd be comfortable doing such invasive things (central lines, pelvic exams, etc) on human beings. I think there's also a lot more mercy in veterinary medicine...there's the option of euthanasia to end suffering, which doesn't...necessarily exist in human medicine. I'd need several more pre-requisites for veterinary school and I'd probably need to find some way to move out. No way I can do it anytime soon, though...since I can't manage 21CR and a full-time job.
One comforting reality here: you don't HAVE to decide what your major is right now, since you are still in the pre-req stage. There are SO many people who end up graduating with a completely different major than the one they started out with. It does NOT mean you're a failure if you change course, (and you may do that more than once or twice) but it means you are discovering more about where your passion may be. That's one of the things college does for you, especially when you are taking gen ed courses. You might discover a love for history, or social work, or aeronautics, or ??? And life is not about making money, anyway -- its about making a LIFE for yourself. Being happy in a career you love is more important than making a lot of $ in a field you detest.
Your mother is trying to help you to make the best decisions SHE feels will be best for your life. Don't totally discount what she is recommending, but... at the same time, realize that at some point down the road, it is YOUR life and the consequences of your choices will fall upon you.
Give your mom a hug, keep listening to her, but DO tell her you know she wants what's best for you, and ask her to trust that she raised a smart young woman who will do her best at whatever she puts her mind to. (We parents love to hear that we did a good job raising our kids! ;-)
Just wanted to share this somewhere. I got proof today that I did have high school Biology and passed with a B! Thank you Jesus, I was living in terror of my transcripts. I did okay in the area that mattered and Yes, my instincts were spot on that I took math all over again. (it was the first pre-reqs I took even tho I was scared to death)
Now I have one more thing I can x off my checklist.
Today I read through chapter 14 the Autonomic nervous system for the first time. It was really detailed and hard to remember. I havent gotten a powerpoint for this chapter yet, but I am worried about keeping all this straight. I see some differences between Para and Symp but they both go to so many of the same effectors. Anyone done this chapter yet and have some advice?
Also, anyone who has taken A&P 2, was that much more difficult to understand than A&P 1?
Also, anyone who has taken A&P 2, was that much more difficult to understand than A&P 1?
Even though I am so over, A&PII right now (2 more weeks)...it is more interesting body system wise IMO, thus it seemed easier to me (but the urinary system was a snooze IMO). LOVED cardiovascular system
Thanks Amy. I dont mean to unload all my private problems but I just need to air it somewhere. I have my final exam 1 week from Tuesday and all of a sudden I am having female health problems. Nothing that has happened to me before so Im really freaked out and am probably calling the Dr tommorow. I already have an appt for 2 weeks, but dont know if it can wait that long. I am so upset, I have 2 classes this week I cannot miss and then the final.
I am mostly scared because I dont know what is wrong with me. This is a huge distraction from school + I am having financial issues and need to go to court on Wed. Could not have come at a worse time.
Today I read through chapter 14 the Autonomic nervous system for the first time. It was really detailed and hard to remember. I havent gotten a powerpoint for this chapter yet, but I am worried about keeping all this straight. I see some differences between Para and Symp but they both go to so many of the same effectors. Anyone done this chapter yet and have some advice?
Also, anyone who has taken A&P 2, was that much more difficult to understand than A&P 1?
I used to differentiate between the two by thinking Parasympathetic/Peaceful, and the Sympathetic is everything opposite that. Maybe read back through with this mentality and it might help.
It can also be helpful to remember that the Sympathetic System has short pre-ganglionic fibers and then long post-ganglionic fibers, and that the parasympathetic has the opposite situation. From this it may be easy to remember that, given the model with the sympathetic trunk ganglia so close to the CNS only in the Thoracic and Lumbar regions, that the Sympathetic nerves all leave the CNS there, thus its other name, the Thoracolumbar Division. The other then, must be the Craniosacral (which also makes sense since its the system used for rest and excretion (head and tail)).
For Neurotransmitters, we can easily remember that both systems use ACh for the pre-ganglionic NX, while the sympathetic, being the system used for fight/flight, uses NE post-ganglionically, the parasympathic using ACh also post-ganglionically.
I don't know if I have represented that intelligibly, but if I have it can be a way to remember three or four different distinctives about the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems by understanding only a couple mnemonics and visually recalling the model. Its the way I tend to learn best, the building block method, I guess you could call it; trying to understand everything within context and as it relates to other data.
Additionally, both systems have an agonist/antagonist relationship to the organs they innervate, so understanding what the systems do: parasympathetic: rest/digest; sympathetic: fight/flight will go a long way toward helping you understand whether they stimulate or inhibit function in these organs.
A really dumb way that I remember the differences between sympathetic and parasympathetic is to remember an incident that happened in the past (ironically when I was studying these systems for psych...)
DH and I hit a moose. Needless to say, that totally freaked us out, and we had the classic fight-or-flight responses - racing heart, sweating, etc. So I recall how I felt when we hit the moose, and that I also felt sympathetic for the moose, because we probably broke his jaw/teeth - big dent in the frame by the window, and scrape marks from his teeth on the passenger window .
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I told my mother I was interested in vetmed and she started laughing at me. So. I've tried talking to her again and again and again and it's always the same result - I get mocked for not picking one thing and sticking to it and how I'm a "loser because I've been in college for so long" and "back in her day I'd be done already", etc. It upsets me tons and I'm considering just doing the nursing degree to get out of there and away from her. I just...it upsets me (and some people who support me the most) that I'm doing something just because she wants me to. It ruins my chances for financial aid in the future since I'd have a degree, and so many other things...
I think I'd love to be a vet-tech...but she informed me that it's not worth it since "prostitutes make more".
Beyond that, I think veterinary medicine is where I'd like to be. Still interaction with people, which I'm okay with, but there's the health aspect for the animals...I've always liked diagnostics, but it hit me a couple weeks ago that there's no way in five heavens I'd be comfortable doing such invasive things (central lines, pelvic exams, etc) on human beings. I think there's also a lot more mercy in veterinary medicine...there's the option of euthanasia to end suffering, which doesn't...necessarily exist in human medicine. I'd need several more pre-requisites for veterinary school and I'd probably need to find some way to move out. 
No way I can do it anytime soon, though...since I can't manage 21CR and a full-time job.
/end ramble.