Do you have anatomy all three afternoons, or do they have to divide the students up on different days?
Exams - Do you have tests that entire monday morning block? It's confusing because underneath there is an exam schedule for different subjects - do the monday exams cover all classes, or do they alternate each week? And it doesn't really look like all the exams are on mondays - there are random days and times listed.
I guess I'm basically wondering if I'd have to plan to be in lecture/lab 7 or 8 -5 every day, or if there are some afternoons off for studying.
You will not have anatomy lab all three days. Since the class is so large (~250 DOs + ~30 PODs), they actually divide the anatomy class into three lab groups (A,B,C) and the groups do the dissections in a set order so that A does one dissection, B the next one, C the next, and repeat.
At least during first quarter, after the second week you will essentially have one exam every Monday in either histo/embryo, anatomy, or biochem. There are weeks with multiple exams in first quarter, but the second exam will be either your Human Behavior or OMM midterms or OMM final, or, like this past week for us, you'll have practicals in your OMM and clinical med classes but no exams in any other classes.
Also, most lab days you will be out of lab before 5:00 regardless of if it's anatomy or OMM (anatomy runs 'til 5:00 a time or two, OMM never does). There are also a few histo/embryo drawing labs that occur throughout the quarter which do last until 5:00 also (these are on anatomy lab days), but these drawing labs are not mandatory.
As for starting at 8:00, Thursdays and Fridays you will start class at 8:00, but most other days in most weeks will not start at 8:00 aside from some Monday exams.
I would also like to point out that AZCOM's basic sciences do not have mandatory attendance for anything other than labs/workshops (except histo/embryo drawing labs which, again, are optional) and potentially yourself and definitely a number of your colleagues will begin to take advantage of this fact and begin to skip lectures (lecture seems all-important to many people in your shoes right now, but a number of my classmates and myself have figured out this first quarter that we're much more efficient learners on our own).
So summary: During first quarter most weeks you will just have one exam and most days, you will not start class at 8:00 except for on Thursdays and Fridays, and on most days you will be done before 5:00.
I will however point out that this is strictly regarding first quarter only. It is my understanding that second and third quarters of MS1 year have more weeks with multiple exams and MS2s have had a couple of weeks this quarter in which they've virtually had 3-4 exams in a single week, so hopefully Flushot or one of the other MS2s that occasionally posts will see this and elaborate a bit on everything I've yet to experience.