I was not sure what to expect coming into this Janplan. I have always been a scientifically minded person and the opportunity to learn more about the human body and how it worked is what made me choose the class on name alone. There was a bit of doubt seeping into my mind when I first looked at the syllabus as to if I had made the right decision. The sheer amount of material that we would be going into made me question if I would be able to keep up or retain all of the information that was going to be thrown at me for the next month. Within the first thirty minutes of class, these worries went away. The overall environment of Olin 01 was presented right off the bat as a place to try new methods of learning without the fear of failing weighing me down. For the first time, a class was about maximizing efficiency and minimizing stress instead of cramming for a passing grade. I didn\u2019t know this was what I needed to reset the bad study habits that had been collecting since my freshman year of highschool, but I have learned (and genuinely retained) more information in the past month than I have in any class in my Colby experience. Don\u2019t get me wrong, this class was a lot of work, but it never felt like a chore to review my notes or stay in the lab late Sunday night in preparation for a practical exam. A lot of that is due to how interesting the subject matter was. I want to work closely with the human body in my future career so everything I learned seemed useful to know instead of mandatory for a good grade. The way information was presented made me fascinated to learn more. Learning about the human heart by getting to dig into one in front of me made it fun, but more importantly, memorable in a useful way. The history aspect of this information stood out to me, like the Flemish\u00a0 guy who collected piss in his basement to discover white phosphorus or the barely capable civil war doctor who accidentally created a hole to uncover the secrets of the stomach. The ways of remembering parts of the body by decoding their greek origin and making sense of the name (ie. the gracilis being the part of the leg that a graceful dancer uses) made these things I had never heard of before make sense. It was fun to listen to the mechanisms of how each body system works because it felt like I was genuinely getting the information and piecing together complex relationships that seemed so daunting a task to understand. I\u2019m not saying that I will remember everything that I heard, but for the amount covered I retained far more than I thought I would. I would credit this to the stress free atmosphere in the class, as I wasn\u2019t worried about not learning something but excited to learn as much as I could. From this class, I am taking with me a slew of knowledge about anatomy and physiology but more importantly an ability to learn in a way that doesn\u2019t make me feel overwhelmed.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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