So unlike college, most of the 'texts' that you have are syllabi made by the professors. Thus everything in them is important. There is just too much info for them to go over everything but they give you en excellent idea of what will be on the exams. Sometimes there are surprises on the exams but that is usually b/c people didn't read and understand the stuff presented well enough. Also, the curriculum office does statistical analyses of each question on the exams so if some are shown to have been misleading they are thrown out (relatively rare). Overall I have felt the tests are very fair but there's just a lot of info to get through.
The lab is really not bad at all. It has everything you need but I think MCV wants to remodel it so they are going to. If you remember Sanger Hall (the place where the admissions office is) the anatomy lab is on the 10th floor. It takes up about half of that floor so it's pretty enormous. I'm going to guestimate that its arout 200x80. It's going to be pretty hard to describe it but here goes.
It has 2 long sides separated by a wall with places to cross sides between the wall. There are about 7 rows of 3 tanks on one side and about 6 rows of 3 tanks on the other side. Between each row there is a large lab bench. There are windows (which is pretty rare for an anatomy lab) so it makes it more pleasant. In the wall are all sorts of cabinets w/ a crazy amt of models and skeletons. Opposite the wall on each side are the windows and also the computers. There are around 15 computers in the lab which makes life easier.
I would say most students live either downtown or in the fan. A few live in the west end or southside but not that many.
