January 23, 2009
We got to dissect sheep hearts for the first Anatomy and Physiology (A & P) lab, yesterday. How cool is that?!
It's not quite as intimidating as it might sound for a first lab, partly because it wasn't a true dissection, in the sense that no one critiqued how well we cut into the heart. Mostly it's not intimidating because for everyone else in the class this wasn't actually their first lab. This is the second semester of a two semester course, so yesterday's lab was more a continuation for most students than an introduction. But since I had the first semester about twelve years ago and I don't remember doing any dissections at all for it, getting to poke at a sheep's heart on the first day seemed really exciting and slightly nerve wracking.
I'm disappointed, though, that I missed out on dissecting a brain last semester. That must have been really interesting.
