Long day

"I think I have too much faith in humanity. You have too little."

Long story short, parents started telling me about how there are really nasty people always lurking at train stations and why it's unsafe 24/7 there.

I suppose medics can't treat themselves, so maybe that makes sense but.. eh.

I just really dislike it when people act in such as way as to create unnecessary justifications for their unnecessary behaviors. A homosexual is not going to turn you into a homosexual. Nor is it extremely risky to be at a platform.

Urgh.

Maybe I'm too idealistic sometimes.

Probably.

I think what concerns me the most about negative stories and such is that I know that person can be better. I don't care who they are - they can be better than their choices.

And I remembered something specific from one of my ethics lectures, she was a pretty good lecturer though:

Paraphrased, too:

"I was treating patients at [a hospital I forgot the name of], near the [prison I forgot the name of]. So of course, my patients were mostly prisoners.

Just for some small talk, I asked my patient what he was in for. I regretted it as soon as I heard his answer.

He told me that he was in for raping a woman. And I just couldn't look at him the same way. I regretted asking that question really badly.

But even so, you can't treat people differently because of who or what they've done. At the end of the day, you're still a doctor, and they're still your patient."

and a different example:

"I was in an ER, and everyone was crowded around a man who had head trauma, but no-one was doing their job effectively.

I pushed past a little, and asked why everyone was like this. They told me that he was a convicted paedophile. That idea disgusted everyone so much that they couldn't even do their job properly."

So I suppose that's what we are. Compassionate, ethical individuals who care about people and not their actions. I suppose it's a fine distinction to make and it seems really hard...

Today's prac was about fluid movement and osmosis mainly, but we did get to look at blood and stuff like that.

Hypo, iso and hypertonic solutions :P

I knew the basics, so this course was more a refresher than anything.

I'll be doing some of the catchup paperwork, but for the most part, it's pretty solid now in my mind.

Unlike immunology....

Also, biohackathon - wow I've got less research done than my team ^^;. I feel like I'm a bad team member/leader.

Anyway, that's it, I better get back to work and stuff. Just got home an hour ago.

Hoping you guys are ontop of stuff.

Addendum

Not sure why one of my student's mother wanted me to do tutoring literally the night before the student's exam in the morning.

Whatever, it's just a little more stress cause I'm worried she won't remember all the fine details and logic through steps in HSC Physics.

Also that negative feedback on my reflection statement was causing me quite some distress. I ended up writing 3/4 of my reflective paragraph for my assignment. Which means I'm at like 700 words. Yesh.

I think I just got really mad at myself.

Feedback on writings

We got some feedback for our reflective writing paragraph draft thing and my tutor's right - I didn't really take it seriously.

Ahaha... ^^;

Maybe I was tired that time. Probably.

There is a method of evaluating and reflecting on lectures, namely What did I know prior to it, what did the lectures cover, and what do I now know (Then, what I still need to know/learn).

 Basically, Pre-incident, incident, post-incident changes.

So today, I knew about academic writing, plagiarism, etc.

The lecture was on academics, plagiarism, and referencing, including note making.

I did learn a few things about note making and referencing, as well as plagiarism and structure of the scientific report. I'll have to revise it properly though.

Lol, near the end of the day was crappy. I bought a drink that I regret buying, and I got back that feedback for a piece of work I didn't do that well in. It always feels yucky.

Hoping you guys are having more fun with stuff than me.

Work work workaholic ne

Reports.

Man they're fun but gods I want to finish it quickly.

Here's part of my introduction for your viewing pleasure.

"...In part two, Doherty’s contribution will be explained fully, and assessed for its significance to the wider medical community since 1996 through a comparison between pre-discovery understanding of cell-mediated immunity and current 21^st medical knowledge in immunology...."

Isn't it exciting? I swear, I knew nothing about this a few weeks ago but man, now it's so much clearer.

I suppose a few lectures on immunology, histology and microscopical anatomical pathology (probably not exactly what it's called, but big phrases are fun.)

I want to go out with a friend tomorrow, but I have a student at 5:30 to 6:30, and I'd have to leave Uni at 4... which means... I have like 1/2 an hour to shop around with the friend, which is kinda unsatisfying.

I'm very much considering moving the time from 5:30  to say... 7:30 or something. My parents aren't going to be happy, but that's what independance is for right?

Or maybe I'm just a snobbishly elitist elite...ly...chau....vinist................

It's so much harder to be self-degrading when you don't believe in what you're saying.

Oh and. I had something to talk about too. Besides sleeping for 1.5 hours on the way to uni and still getting there prior to 9.

Oh yes. Today's lectures were about acute inflammation with a very punny professor. 

"Why acute inflammation? Well, seeing as you have to do inflammation, we figured why not start with a cute one."

"...And so, when you study abscesses (localised collections of pus) you have to think about all the 
pus-abilities"

He's pretty cool - again, maybe not a Buckland, but close enough.

But gods the prac today was a computer lab one and it was booooring and slooooooow. I just spun in my spinny office chair to pass the two hours. Sure it's useful, but they don't have to drag it out so much.

Going back to my original point...

I saw a Muslim girl today with an iPhone and what appeared to be a designer handbag or an imitation.

I was confused at quite length.

Anyone want to hazard a guess why?

I realised after staring subtly for a while that I had a preconception that religion is a way of life in the sense that it overrides any other type of socio-cultural influence. It still surprises me when I have Muslim tutors for biochem labs. It shouldn't, I know, and yes I'm a horrible person for even thinking in this way, but it's not that I have any ill feeling, I'm just surprised, and then surprised at my surprise.

And then glad. It only takes one fanatical orthodox [insert religious adjective/category/person here] to ruin my week.

I think I came close to offending one of my friends when I expressed my dislike of the Vatican. I asked almost immediately after realising whether he considered the Vatican to be a big part of his life. To my relief, he said no, but I was still thinking about it hours later, and as you can see, days later.

When I say dislike, it's probably more like "borderline rant-y hatred"

And I should check my diaries more often. I'm so disorganised. And my room's pretty messy XD

I need to remedy that in the mid-sem break.

My thanks to whoever decided Easter would be a Fabulous commercial holiday.

Hoping you guys don't get offended too much by what I say. I don't mean to make people hate me - unlike them political commentators and radio show hosts etc.

GODS I just remembered. BOB BROWN IS A DOCTOR. A. DOC. TOR. LIKE WTF. WHY. He's gonna be talking at  UAdelaide mid-Apr about climate change impacts on health.

And before I forget, there's like a bajillion competitions for things, including an essay on cancer for a trip to Vienna, and an essay for a 30k scholarship or something. And there's the Biohackathon. I need to get that organised. Gods... so busy.

I realised I had to update a few things

Ok, I got my tags in order.

So I should be doing work, but I'm just watching Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (UK Version) for probably the second time. Sigh. I'm so bad.

And playing games.

Well, sorta.

I kinda want to play dota again, but I know I should get all my work related crap out of the way.

My oral speech is done, I just need to make it into palm cards. Or do I even need to?

Probably do.

Making dot points now.

And eating dinner. And thinking about all my other work and games and oh my I might just want to be doing too much. Who knows.

There's a bunch of competitions and stuff alongside assignments. It's actually pretty fun, but I do want to play games, which are more fun.

But in the end, the work's more rewarding, cause learning's always fun.

Medical ethics lecture with Monet this morning was...intriguing. For sure, it was more entertaining than if I was by myself.

[Sorry, some of the med lectures are rubbish on the entertainment scale, but you knew that already.]

[Anatomy and Histology's a lot better, IMO.]

Tomorrow's a prac, but... it's a computer prac. And I finish at 2pm. If anyone has a break between 12 and 1, I'd be happy to walk down to wherever. But I don't think any of you do, judging from the timetables given. So I'll just lunch with med buddies, probably. Hopefully. Maybe.

Today was learning about time management more than anything. But it was a good day.

Hoping you guys are having more fun.

Details about Medcamp

Apparently, second hand info tells me that all the girls in the med cohort of 2013 are drunkards.

Lectures was about healing and cell death, and responses to injury with a British-accented Indian professor. He's really cool. Maybe not as cool as Buckland. But good enough.

I have a break from 1-2pm tomorrow.

I learned a lot today - I'm not sure what else I'm supposed to say I learned... haha.

I haven't actually done enough work for my individual assignment. Bad me.

Library tutorial was more stuff about referencing and citations.

It seems like quite a bit of bother, especially cause Med uses APA referencing exclusively, and other faculties use other methods. It's pretty silly.

I can't say I knew much before my lectures, but now I know more.

Hoping you guys don't have bland days.

Oh, and when I finished uni for the day, I wasn't exactly sure what I was supposed to do, and I couldn't really contact anyone, so I figured I'd just head home. It was an odd feeling, not knowing what to do at uni. Maybe it'll come back to me tomorrow too. Who knows.