The first day of the class was the most stressful for me, when every single concept was unheard of, and there was a fair chance I would have to drop the course due to over-enrollment. Thankfully Dr.K was an angel on earth. I got to have my first wet dissection and it was as expected. I also got to learn a bunch of weird Latin words that will probably never be brought up again but linger in my head nevertheless. Having a 3-hour class plus quiz per day was intense and my messed-up sleep schedule wasn’t prepared for it. To not disappoint Dr.K after everything, I’ve been dealing with my insomnia with the A & P basics in mind, by researching the nutritional components of my meals and meds, managing my breathing patterns, etc. Let's hope they work.
All I wanted from the course was to know more about the human body, so overall I am very satisfied with how things ended up. I felt my improvement from how I was able to catch up with my GR groupmates with relative ease while reading and discussing our case study. Despite being just a glimpse into the whole A & P field, the course helped me familiarize with the body and thereby form ideas on how other intricate and natural systems on this planet might work. Andi Li