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....
Anybody else have a teacher that has some crazy thing they make their students do?
My A&P professor says, "Call it a femur, don't all it a thigh. I don't know what a thigh is unless it's chicken and it's on a plate"
That said, a lot of this is about the development of a habit of precision and accuracy which are the building blocks of critical thinking skills and communication. Everyone needs to be able to speak the same language and know what they are talking about.
As students, we don't get to draw the lines. Like it or not, they get to tell us what to say and what to call things. We don't even have to trust their judgment, so unless they're deeply, deeply mistaken and we know it, it's our job to just shut up and soak it all in.
oh lets all stop fighting . let the girl rant! better here than in the classroom. it does suck some of the stuff we have to learn, but thats just life. i'd like to start a rant about those people that think THEY HAVE to have a 4.0 GPA and make it ridiculously hard for some students who work JUST as hard and may only have a 3.0 (which is very good btw) to get into NS :]
the world wont end if you get a B ;]
i believe in trying your best . but it makes me sick to my stomach when i hear people say "omg your gonna get a B, drop that class and retake it" .........ughhh ...
oh lets all stop fighting . let the girl rant! better here than in the classroom. it does suck some of the stuff we have to learn, but thats just life. i'd like to start a rant about those people that think THEY HAVE to have a 4.0 GPA and make it ridiculously hard for some students who work JUST as hard and may only have a 3.0 (which is very good btw) to get into NS :]
the world wont end if you get a B ;]
i believe in trying your best . but it makes me sick to my stomach when i hear people say "omg your gonna get a B, drop that class and retake it" .........ughhh ...
I agree! IMO B's are still good grades. I make some B's, and I actually remember the questions I get wrong on tests longer than I remember the one's I got right. LOL. As long as a student is learning and retaining, I don't see anything wrong with a B. Of course it always does feel good to get an A.
Your A&P class sounds terrible!!!! No multiple choice Qs - all essay w/ verbatim definitions.... wow, I'd be on the verge of tears and I'm a very good student. You have my sympathy, and to all of those who "want a harder test and don't like multiple choice tests" I challenge you all to ask your teachers for a harder test lol. I'll bet you won't - but then again you shouldn't cause who wants to become the world's most hated fellow classmate.
sorry - i had to laugh - i am not on a high horse - just pointing out that your complaints are pretty unfounded...I sit in class, listening to people like yourself talking about how hard all of this is, that it's unfair, that they paid good money and then do not do well in a class, that it is too much info to actually learn, (and in some cases they cheat and then "waa, waa, waa - i have a hard life!" when they get caught, which actually does not happen often! )- sorry - i am guessing that you are younger than I am is this seems to be a younger generation thing that people expect things to be easy. The reason why the objective exams tick me off - it may prep us all for the RN exam, but it does not prep us for life as nurses - in my classes people cont' to fail the essay sections of the exam as they truely do not know the info - they cannot explain it - and that is one key part of being a nurse - being able to explain to yoru pts what is going on and why!
Don't know how old you are, but I'm a straight A student, recently turned 21, and have never expected life to be easy. I don't see what age or generation has to do with it. At my old college "this younger generation" had some pretty impressive stats - do you know any pre-med or pre-pharm people of the "younger generation." I do, and they could blow 80% of all generations (young and old) out of the water. Just sayin'....
It's always funny to see these boards go in a direction by people who are confrontational or seem bitter about something. They often lose the purpose of the intention of the poster with unnecessary comments. But then again, you will always have those types of comments on a message board and community. :)
In my first A&P class, I had one teacher who laid out everything for students with study guides and keys for the labs. The class was a breeze and he only elaborated on anything he wanted us to know that we didn't understand from the guides. If you wanted an A, he was the professor to take. I tried another professor with a different approach for the second A&P class because of the rotating issues. He was very unorganized. We had tests every other week over 3 chapters in its entirety (we only met once a week so he would lecture for 8 hours straight), and he would call out what he wanted us to know for labs. However, he had an accent and it was hard to understand him. Also, I am in a quarter system so we would have to complete the rest of the book in 9 weeks so that made it even more difficult. It wasn't the worse situation, but I was not prepared to get less than a 'B' and I could easily see myself struggling to obtain that with my course load and his class methods. I dropped his course and decided to take my original teacher again for the 2nd part along with three additional classes so I won't fall behind in my pre-reqs. It's a challenge but I just didn't have the patience with the other teacher and I had the option of taking an easier teacher. I felt bad at first for going the easier route, but I have a nearly perfect GPA (one B) and did not want to sacrifice that or my sanity...not until I'm in my nursing program at least. :)
Your A&P class sounds terrible!!!! No multiple choice Qs - all essay w/ verbatim definitions.... wow, I'd be on the verge of tears and I'm a very good student. You have my sympathy, and to all of those who "want a harder test and don't like multiple choice tests" I challenge you all to ask your teachers for a harder test lol. I'll bet you won't - but then again you shouldn't cause who wants to become the world's most hated fellow classmate.
i actually have - and the teachers admit if they were not teaching to the boards they would ask essay - but as they have to teach to the exam as it is mutli.
Always smart to cool off before you post, if something offended you. A lesson I have learned along the way. (One of the benefits of being older -- you, hopefully, become wiser.) ;-)
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