Physiology yay!
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annabtg...Yes, you read the title right. *g*
I'm just back from two consecutive hours of studying (was it really that long? Didn't feel like it.) Physiology I studying is going surprisingly well.
Now, for those not in the know (and why would you know anyway?), my Physiology I material consists of 24 chapters from two heavy tomes. They are, of course, too huge to study in detail, so I just go skimming and summarizing. My work is particularly easy because each chapter is broken down into titled units and mini-units, so sometimes not even skimming is necessary - I just jot down the title of the mini-unit, and voilà! *g* Job done.
What I'm most excited about is that I finished one tome already (only 8 chapters left, which means two thirds of the work I have to do are already done, yay!) and I've gotten to the second one. And this one deals with the endocrine system (hormones etc.), which is a) much easier to understand and b) much more interesting. I mean, the first tome was interesting too (would tell you what it was about, but I don't have the courage to look up the English names). But this second tome is really exciting. It's the kind of thing that makes me love Biology, the kind of thing that made me choose Pharmacy over Electrical and Computer Engineering. It's the kind of thing I can read with interest, and think to myself, "oh, so *that* is how it works! Way cool." It's awesome, really. Shame there's only so little time to dedicate to it.
(Now, if I were a smart girl, I'd have spent some time studying it during the school year, instead of waiting for the last few days before the exam. But I'm not.)
BTW - Cath, remember ACTH? I'll have to study about that one, too. *g* It's in a later chapter.
Oh, it feels great to enjoy studying so much. I feel like I'm becoming again the girl I used to be, the one who studied encyclopedias just because she found the articles interesting, who read her schoolbooks from the beginning till the end the day she got them, and who studied from her dad's Biology books when she was still at kindergarten. I really hadn't been that girl in a long time.
*nostalgic*
See ya,
Anna.
I'm just back from two consecutive hours of studying (was it really that long? Didn't feel like it.) Physiology I studying is going surprisingly well.
Now, for those not in the know (and why would you know anyway?), my Physiology I material consists of 24 chapters from two heavy tomes. They are, of course, too huge to study in detail, so I just go skimming and summarizing. My work is particularly easy because each chapter is broken down into titled units and mini-units, so sometimes not even skimming is necessary - I just jot down the title of the mini-unit, and voilà! *g* Job done.
What I'm most excited about is that I finished one tome already (only 8 chapters left, which means two thirds of the work I have to do are already done, yay!) and I've gotten to the second one. And this one deals with the endocrine system (hormones etc.), which is a) much easier to understand and b) much more interesting. I mean, the first tome was interesting too (would tell you what it was about, but I don't have the courage to look up the English names). But this second tome is really exciting. It's the kind of thing that makes me love Biology, the kind of thing that made me choose Pharmacy over Electrical and Computer Engineering. It's the kind of thing I can read with interest, and think to myself, "oh, so *that* is how it works! Way cool." It's awesome, really. Shame there's only so little time to dedicate to it.
(Now, if I were a smart girl, I'd have spent some time studying it during the school year, instead of waiting for the last few days before the exam. But I'm not.)
BTW - Cath, remember ACTH? I'll have to study about that one, too. *g* It's in a later chapter.
Oh, it feels great to enjoy studying so much. I feel like I'm becoming again the girl I used to be, the one who studied encyclopedias just because she found the articles interesting, who read her schoolbooks from the beginning till the end the day she got them, and who studied from her dad's Biology books when she was still at kindergarten. I really hadn't been that girl in a long time.
*nostalgic*
See ya,
Anna.
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Date: 2007-01-30 02:25 am (UTC)Heh, I too used to be like that. Good for you that you've re-found yourself =)
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Date: 2007-01-30 02:26 am (UTC)*sigh*
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Date: 2007-01-31 02:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-31 03:12 pm (UTC)I remembered the ACTH causing the production of CRH causing the production of something else, but the something else, which is the most important part, completely escaped me.
...According to my book and Wikipedia, CRH causes the production of cortisol, aldosterone and androgens from the adrenal glands.
And, apparently, ACTH stands for Adrenocorticotropic Hormone. (Though I'm not expected to know the English name... but then again, I didn't even know the Greek one.)
And that's for the exam I'm supposedly taking tomorrow. BWAHAHAHA.
I fail.
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Date: 2007-01-31 08:02 pm (UTC)YOU SCARE ME SO MUCH =P You're using the words 'Biology books' and 'exciting' in the same paragraph! *headdesk* Seriously though, it's great that you can really enjoy stuff like that. I mean, my main subject at school is English and I enjoy reading the books we get and stuff... but I can't imagine ever being as enthusiastic about it as you are about this. I mean... wow. So impressed, heh.
Indy.x ♥
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Date: 2007-01-31 09:18 pm (UTC)And, I'm not *always* that enthusiastic. *g*
See ya,
Anna.
Oh but wait, it gets worse.
Date: 2007-01-31 10:34 pm (UTC)I really, really, really fail.
Really fail.
Re: Oh but wait, it gets worse.
Date: 2007-02-01 06:14 pm (UTC)But you most certainly DO NOT fail.
Tell me how the exam went :) *hugs*
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