Just a rant

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Ugh....I really need to memorize all my lymphatic vessels and blood vessels, but what am I doing? I'm on here piddling around reading blogs and such. GOD! I can't wait until actually being in nursing school this fall (if I get accepted). My adviser told me not to worry, but I will worry until i get the letter.....that's just the way I am. LOL

I'm just ready to do some hands on stuff instead of all memorization. My lame A and P teacher makes us memorize vocabulary words like dyspnea and otorhinolaryngology and myoclonus, for example, just for extra knowledge. This is fine but he makes us know his word for word definitions!! So stupid. He makes it so confusing to learn the way he words his stuff. He even told us in class that if we change a "the" to an "a" it would be wrong. GAAAHHH! This guy is really insane. To top it off, I already know what a bunch of these words mean from getting my medical transcription certificate, but I have to go through and memorize his stupid verbatim definitions....:mad:

Anybody else have a teacher that has some crazy thing they make their students do?

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well i made memorize all those little "dents" on bones ...lol

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I have to re-read my medical terminolgy stuff book. Since I'm not in the medical field, it's easy to forget things. I read my whole med term book w/ disc last year and when I started nursing school -- well, I've forgotten most of my terms. I know I suck :uhoh3: Why wasn't I born a natural egghead?

No, never had a crazy instructor (nursing or pre-reqs). But, I can say though -- I've had moody ones and a rumored to be 'alcoholic.' I guess the alcoholic one was not liked at her dept. either, because it's pretty obvious that someone leaked her personal problem.

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I always look up my professors on ratemyprofessor.com or my schools discussion boards.

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I always look up my professors on ratemyprofessor.com or my schools discussion boards.

Yeah, I do that too, but at my school we only have 2 anatomy and physiology professors and the crazy one was the only one teaching A and P I the semester I needed to start taking it. THe better teacher was teaching II. They rotate.

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Word for word definitions is a bit nuts.

Yeah, the Lab we have to do is a constant mystery. Models without keys and labeling, and then we get tested on them!

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Word for word definitions is a bit nuts.

Yeah, the Lab we have to do is a constant mystery. Models without keys and labeling, and then we get tested on them!

Yeah, our models have numbers on them, but they don't mean anything to us because there is no key. We just have to figure it out on our own. One time last semester when I had been in the lab studying outside of lab time, I had gotten so irritated that I took a piece of the model down to his office and just asked him. LOL I probably looked ridiculous carrying 2 models' brains down 3 flights of stairs. Hahaha.

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That is crazy! As far as the definitions. My teacher this semester is awful for A+P 2...sorry, I kinda need to rant too :( He gives us models in the lab to memorize and no word bank/key. It's all by memory which seems a bit unfair. We had to go through the blood flow of the heart and you could get a 99 or 100 if you knew the material...I got a 99 because he said I kind of stumbled through it...what does it matter, seriously...I got the process correct. ugh! The lab book for class is awful!! (marieb cat edition - you can't find the answers anywhere in the section after reading through the material 90 times!). For the class exams he makes us write relationship essays for different body systems.

It just stinks because the essays, etc. I feel like we are just memorizing stuff and will never truly learn it with so much pressure put on us to remember 30 pages of notes for a test.

I can't wait to start nursing school!

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That is crazy! As far as the definitions. My teacher this semester is awful for A+P 2...sorry, I kinda need to rant too :( He gives us models in the lab to memorize and no word bank/key. It's all by memory which seems a bit unfair. We had to go through the blood flow of the heart and you could get a 99 or 100 if you knew the material...I got a 99 because he said I kind of stumbled through it...what does it matter, seriously...I got the process correct. ugh! The lab book for class is awful!! (marieb cat edition - you can't find the answers anywhere in the section after reading through the material 90 times!). For the class exams he makes us write relationship essays for different body systems.

It just stinks because the essays, etc. I feel like we are just memorizing stuff and will never truly learn it with so much pressure put on us to remember 30 pages of notes for a test.

I can't wait to start nursing school!

Yeah, we've got a cat edition too. It's so stupid! I don't understand why we had to learn all the muscles on the cat when we learned all the muscles for the human last semester. I mean, we're not going to be vets!! I suppose you have to have a special permit to have cadavers that we don't have

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i find it funny that people are complaining about all of this - you have books with labels that you can apply to the models and worse comes to worse use google!

As far as essays -"For the class exams he makes us write relationship essays for different body systems. "that is the best way to make sure that you actually know the information esp when you prof makes you related the systems together! God forbid you are actually asked to master your information.

It actually ticks me off that so many of the exams are T/F and multiple choice. Guess what - A&P is Hard! you can totally hate me for this, but i have an bachelors in biology and graduate work in science as well - and while these pre-req nursing classes have made me work it has not been anything impossible!

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i find it funny that people are complaining about all of this - you have books with labels that you can apply to the models and worse comes to worse use google!

As far as essays -"For the class exams he makes us write relationship essays for different body systems. "that is the best way to make sure that you actually know the information esp when you prof makes you related the systems together! God forbid you are actually asked to master your information.

It actually ticks me off that so many of the exams are T/F and multiple choice. Guess what - A&P is Hard! you can totally hate me for this, but i have an bachelors in biology and graduate work in science as well - and while these pre-req nursing classes have made me work it has not been anything impossible!

First of all 2D books with pictures in them is not the same as having 5 different models with 5 different colors and looks to them.

Secondly, nobody said that these classes were impossible.

Thirdly, why don't you talk to your teacher and see if he can write you a special essay exam since you are so "ticked off" that the exams are T/F and multiple choice.

Finally, my exams are multiple choice and essay, and I'll tell you he doesn't make it easy. A lot of the times there are 2 or 3 good answers. Our lab exams are 80 questions. No multiple, T/F, or fill in the blank, so get off your high horse and stop spoiling my rant thread.

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T/F questions can be impossible to answer unless you know every single thing about the subject matter. This is the hardest part of our exams. A multiple choice question is much easier.

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