Brain Dead

April 30th, 2004

Neuro is finally DONE! This has been a long and (sort of) miserable 9 weeks, and I’m not sad one bit to see this neuro unit over. As annoying and time-consuming as this unit was, however, I did find it interesting overall.

It’s funny because until now, the one topic in biology/physiology that I hated the most was neuroscience. It used to be that the slightest mention of the word “cerebellum” or “medulla” made my own brain shut down and stop caring; or if a professor was lecturing about neuroscience related topics, my ears only heard “blah blah blah blah blah”…but now I actually find some topics in this field fascinating.

My explanation is that the brain and nervous system are so complex that you need to learn all aspects of it at once to get a feel for the entire system. In the past I’d only been taught selected topics so I couldn’t understand how they fit into the bigger picture. Having it taught all at once (like we just did) made it all make sense, and now I have some appreciation for it all.

With that said, I don’t want to see that material again for a long time.

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