Class of 2022...how you doin'?

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StayingPositive2017 said:
Uggg. Our missed class material WILL be on our Friday test
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Everything for us got moved around and squashed into Thursday and early next week so it can still be on out midterm 😢
Which means we have I think 7 physio lectures, two imaging lectures, and a histo lecture next week now instead of very little right before the exam :lame:
 
SkiOtter said:
Everything for us got moved around and squashed into Thursday and early next week so it can still be on out midterm 😢
Which means we have I think 7 physio lectures, two imaging lectures, and a histo lecture next week now instead of very little right before the exam :lame:
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Welp tomorrow is cancelled too so no idea if we have a test Friday. Would make sense imo to cancel exam and use that time to make up the classes missed, but who am I to say...
 
I have 3 exams and a quiz this week. Just took a practice exam for the one on Monday and failed.😆
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I’m really struggling this semester guys. I’m a very hands on learner. Last semester, it was a good 50/50 split between lectures and labs. This semester, we have 7 classes. SEVEN. And it’s so. Much. Lecturing. And it’s taught in a way that’s not very challenging, it’s all memorize, regurgitate, memorize, regurgitate. I haven’t studied for anything in like a week. And I have 3 exams coming up. I’m just not excited by the material this semester. Last semester was mostly anatomy so it was very tactile and practical and had clinical relevance. This semester is so much biochem and mechanisms and **** that I thought I’d be done with.

I’m doing fine mental health wise, I just keep beating myself up for not studying and then when I do study, I can’t concentrate because it’s SO BORING.

Ugh, I just feel very frustrated.
 
SkiOtter said:
YOU GET PRACTICE EXAMS?!?!?!?!?!
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Yeah I have 3 more I can take but I'm using that tomorrow for group study when people can explain things about the heart I don't understand. Also I would rather have multiple exams over the semester than one mega or two that determines my whole grade.
johnnaboo said:
I’m really struggling this semester guys. I’m a very hands on learner. Last semester, it was a good 50/50 split between lectures and labs. This semester, we have 7 classes. SEVEN. And it’s so. Much. Lecturing. And it’s taught in a way that’s not very challenging, it’s all memorize, regurgitate, memorize, regurgitate. I haven’t studied for anything in like a week. And I have 3 exams coming up. I’m just not excited by the material this semester. Last semester was mostly anatomy so it was very tactile and practical and had clinical relevance. This semester is so much biochem and mechanisms and **** that I thought I’d be done with.

I’m doing fine mental health wise, I just keep beating myself up for not studying and then when I do study, I can’t concentrate because it’s SO BORING.

Ugh, I just feel very frustrated.
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I just haven't studied very much. I've been very lazy like I get home at 5 alot this semester and by the time I eat +/- showering it's like 7 and recently I've just really wanted to sleep. I get home and I'm so tired-doesn't help my back has been out for 2 weeks off and on so literally sitting in lecture literally hurts. Also my lack of studying was not supported by the fact that I didn't study that much for anatomy and pretty sure I did well above passing on it. Immuno I've had before so it's less incentivizing to study. Then I just have physio, neuro and path. We haven't done much in path or neuro so literally that leaves physio so I just have no motivation and now I'm going to learn as much about the heart as possible in the next ~32 hours before my cardio exam. I have made poor decisions :lame:
 
johnnaboo said:
I’m really struggling this semester guys. I’m a very hands on learner. Last semester, it was a good 50/50 split between lectures and labs. This semester, we have 7 classes. SEVEN. And it’s so. Much. Lecturing. And it’s taught in a way that’s not very challenging, it’s all memorize, regurgitate, memorize, regurgitate. I haven’t studied for anything in like a week. And I have 3 exams coming up. I’m just not excited by the material this semester. Last semester was mostly anatomy so it was very tactile and practical and had clinical relevance. This semester is so much biochem and mechanisms and **** that I thought I’d be done with.

I’m doing fine mental health wise, I just keep beating myself up for not studying and then when I do study, I can’t concentrate because it’s SO BORING.

Ugh, I just feel very frustrated.
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Try not to beat yourself up too much. It's hard to go from sitting in lectures all day to studying. I don't really know how to solve that problem either. If I had figured that out I might have done better last semester lol You just do what you can while maintaining your sanity.
 
johnnaboo said:
You seriously don’t have them? That’s mega bull****
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Lol no
We get no practice exams, no old exams. Question banks are highly guarded. At quiz and exam reviews after grades come back we are allowed to bring in a piece of paper and write short notes if we want to go ask a professor about a question but they are checked before we leave to make sure that we do not have enough information down where we could replicate the questions and give them to future years.
 
MixedAnimals77 said:
Yeah I have 3 more I can take but I'm using that tomorrow for group study when people can explain things about the heart I don't understand. Also I would rather have multiple exams over the semester than one mega or two that determines my whole grade.
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Yeah um
Mega exams kiiiinda suck but at the same time I don’t have one to three exams every week for 16 weeks?
 
MixedAnimals77 said:
back has been out for 2 weeks off and on so literally sitting in lecture literally hurts.
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Oh hey I feel you. Definitely get up and do a lap at every break if you don’t already. Helps make it more manageable for like a solid 10 minutes which is nice.
My back has gotten worse and worse since school started because of sitting in lecture halls. It was actually doing pretty decently for the first time in a little over a year before I went to school.
 
SkiOtter said:
Lol no
We get no practice exams, no old exams. Question banks are highly guarded. At quiz and exam reviews after grades come back we are allowed to bring in a piece of paper and write short notes if we want to go ask a professor about a question but they are checked before we leave to make sure that we do not have enough information down where we could replicate the questions and give them to future years.
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Yeah our third year is like that. This is the first year they are almost 100% using exam software in the third year for the medicine courses. It's been an experiment for sure and it sounds like they are probably working down the years soon with exam software becoming more usable etc. Until then though I'm using everything available to me.

Also yes I've been getting up and walking during my breaks. I was severely out a week ago-couldnt even bend over to tie my shoe without almost crying. It felt like some one had taken my hips and rotated them upwards. I got adjusted and it was great. Since then it's been mildy sore but I'd been out like a week so I was like I just need to give it time. It has gotten progressively worse since Thursday. It's great :yeahright:
 
MixedAnimals77 said:
Yeah our third year is like that. This is the first year they are almost 100% using exam software in the third year for the medicine courses. It's been an experiment for sure and it sounds like they are probably working down the years soon with exam software becoming more usable etc. Until then though I'm using everything available to me.
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It's not just medicine. Was everything but pharm and two SA tests because the prof teaching those sections refused to learn it. Sounds like they might be switching over to second years using it too next year, so you might get the fun 😛

Don't really see how they could do that with how Sys path and BacT are tested, but I guess they'll have to figure it out.

Who is teaching cardio phys this year?
 
Caiter92 said:
It's not just medicine. Was everything but pharm and two SA tests because the prof teaching those sections refused to learn it. Sounds like they might be switching over to second years using it too next year, so you might get the fun 😛

Don't really see how they could do that with how Sys path and BacT are tested, but I guess they'll have to figure it out.

Who is teaching cardio phys this year?
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I knew it was the majority of your classes minus like one person because they refused but I didn't know specifics. Ew well as long as they get the kinks out of it I don't really care as I know your class had alot of complaints about the number of questions coupled with certain exams that were pass or fail the course plus just not knowing alot of what was going on gradewise it seemed when they talked about it at the faculty-staff meeting. They could just do it for everything except those two classes. Sprunger is teaching it this year. Rumor has it she's thinking of retiring I assume after this year but I'm not sure. I hear lots of stuff through the grape vine but hardly ever know full stories.
 
MixedAnimals77 said:
I knew it was the majority of your classes minus like one person because they refused but I didn't know specifics. Ew well as long as they get the kinks out of it I don't really care as I know your class had alot of complaints about the number of questions coupled with certain exams that were pass or fail the course plus just not knowing alot of what was going on gradewise it seemed when they talked about it at the faculty-staff meeting. They could just do it for everything except those two classes. Sprunger is teaching it this year. Rumor has it she's thinking of retiring I assume after this year but I'm not sure. I hear lots of stuff through the grape vine but hardly ever know full stories.
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ha, you're fine. They didn't tell us crap about it until a random email during the summer saying to register because it would be used in "some" of our classes, and then suddenly it was all of them and we were like ???

It was honestly a problem for all of them. Since 3rd year is way stricter grade wise than 1st or second, and if you fail one test (even if your average percentage is well above the min), you marginal the class unless they have some sort of make-up assignment (not all classes do, and the two I know that due it's pretty intense). I know they've tried really hard to argue that failing one exam shouldn't mean a marginal, cause i know plenty of people that failed an exam or a few the first two years in a class, and still did well in the class. I know our reps have asked about longer exams, which i think would help solve some issues. I'd way rather have a 50 question MC test than a 25 question one. But these changes with grades are only in the last two years or so for third year, so I think they're planning to keep them for a while to see how it goes.
 
MixedAnimals77 said:
Also yes I've been getting up and walking during my breaks. I was severely out a week ago-couldnt even bend over to tie my shoe without almost crying. It felt like some one had taken my hips and rotated them upwards. I got adjusted and it was great. Since then it's been mildy sore but I'd been out like a week so I was like I just need to give it time. It has gotten progressively worse since Thursday. It's great :yeahright:
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Yeeeeeep I’ve also been seeing a Chiro (found a new one here this semester, I did not like the last one I saw here). First week back after Christmas I was in so much pain that I couldn’t concentrate in class :dead:
 
Caiter92 said:
ha, you're fine. They didn't tell us crap about it until a random email during the summer saying to register because it would be used in "some" of our classes, and then suddenly it was all of them and we were like ???

It was honestly a problem for all of them. Since 3rd year is way stricter grade wise than 1st or second, and if you fail one test (even if your average percentage is well above the min), you marginal the class unless they have some sort of make-up assignment (not all classes do, and the two I know that due it's pretty intense). I know they've tried really hard to argue that failing one exam shouldn't mean a marginal, cause i know plenty of people that failed an exam or a few the first two years in a class, and still did well in the class. I know our reps have asked about longer exams, which i think would help solve some issues. I'd way rather have a 50 question MC test than a 25 question one. But these changes with grades are only in the last two years or so for third year, so I think they're planning to keep them for a while to see how it goes.
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Do you know why they changed the grade policy?
I just feel bad for your year. You guys always get the suprises and most of them are usually not good...
 
MixedAnimals77 said:
Do you know why they changed the grade policy?
I just feel bad for your year. You guys always get the suprises and most of them are usually not good...
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Clinicians wanted it. They thought it would help people retain the information into 4th year if we had to learn it better. Don't know how true that is honestly. I haven't really had to study any harder this year than previous years. We're the third class I think since that change. We didn't lose anyone due to grades this year (and have only lost two to grades total), but it def caused unneeded stress at times.
 
SkiOtter said:
Lol no
We get no practice exams, no old exams. Question banks are highly guarded. At quiz and exam reviews after grades come back we are allowed to bring in a piece of paper and write short notes if we want to go ask a professor about a question but they are checked before we leave to make sure that we do not have enough information down where we could replicate the questions and give them to future years.
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This is exactly how it’s done here as well. Everything is on ExamSoft
 
If anyone has any tips for studying parasitology without crying, lmk.
 
PetVet7 said:
If anyone has any tips for studying parasitology without crying, lmk.
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So I started using the Merck manual for all the ologies towards the end of last quarter cause ours were poorly organized for me to study from. My final was over a letter grade higher than our midterm.
 
PetVet7 said:
Do you guys not get scratch paper? All our tests are on ExamSoft but we at least get a sheet of paper to write things out.
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We do but I can’t circle things, cross things out, underline, write above the answer what would make it correct. That’s how I take tests and I can’t do that when it’s on examsoft.
 
SkiOtter said:
We do but I can’t circle things, cross things out, underline, write above the answer what would make it correct. That’s how I take tests and I can’t do that when it’s on examsoft.
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You can highlight and cross out answers on ExamSoft, but I get what you mean. I also hate how we don’t get our tests back. I like to learn from my mistakes.
 
PetVet7 said:
You can highlight and cross out answers on ExamSoft, but I get what you mean. I also hate how we don’t get our tests back. I like to learn from my mistakes.
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Yeah I can cross answers out but like can’t do anything in the actual question. I can’t circle a bolder NOT 10 times to make sure I see it :laugh:
 
PetVet7 said:
I also hate how we don’t get our tests back. I like to learn from my mistakes.
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Same. I get that it's to do with the professors not having a time to write new questions every year. But it's hard to know what to change/try harder with by being able to glance at the exams for 5 minutes after the exam.
 
I would hate hate hate online only exams.

All of our exams are paper. Bad for the trees, but I like being able to use my pen to underline/circle key parts of the question and cross off or mark potential answer options. Plus random drawing to pull my thoughts together.

Our class is 78 people though, so smaller than a lot of schools. I can see a prof not wanting to mark 150 long answer written questions lol.
 
TheGirlWithTheFernTattoo said:
I would hate hate hate online only exams.

All of our exams are paper. Bad for the trees, but I like being able to use my pen to underline/circle key parts of the question and cross off or mark potential answer options. Plus random drawing to pull my thoughts together.

Our class is 78 people though, so smaller than a lot of schools. I can see a prof not wanting to mark 150 long answer written questions lol.
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I'd be willing to keep it MC with a scantron if we got a written exam; or have it be examsoft, but we get a hard copy that we can mark up if we want. I feel like paper exams make me slow down as well.
 
TheGirlWithTheFernTattoo said:
I would hate hate hate online only exams.

All of our exams are paper. Bad for the trees, but I like being able to use my pen to underline/circle key parts of the question and cross off or mark potential answer options. Plus random drawing to pull my thoughts together.

Our class is 78 people though, so smaller than a lot of schools. I can see a prof not wanting to mark 150 long answer written questions lol.
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Okay but anatomy practicals are still in examsoft so you have to TYPE in your answers and the professor still has to go through and checkmark each one that is or is not correct for everyone. This got REAL messed up last semester
 
SkiOtter said:
Okay but anatomy practicals are still in examsoft so you have to TYPE in your answers and the professor still has to go through and checkmark each one that is or is not correct for everyone. This got REAL messed up last semester
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Well now thats just silly. How do you balance your laptop while touching the specimen? We have scantron or paper for anatomy (examsoft for other)
 
StayingPositive2017 said:
What?? How do you double check that it's really the left recurrent because yes, it's definitely wrapping around the aorta? They use our dissections for some of the specimens so not always nicely dissected like the prosections
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They use our dissected specimens too! And I think they just try to pin it in whatever spot makes it obvious if it could be two things :shrug:
 
Barkley13 said:
They use our dissected specimens too! And I think they just try to pin it in whatever spot makes it obvious if it could be two things :shrug:
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Uggg. I needed to say which hiatus something was traveling through the diaphragm, but it was so un-dissected that I couldn't find the caudal vena cava... So I tugged the esoph further up in the neck and it moved lol. Best confirmation possible

ETA: we can touch, pick up, flip, etc. They also sometimes have two of the same thing so you can compare
 
StayingPositive2017 said:
Well now thats just silly. How do you balance your laptop while touching the specimen? We have scantron or paper for anatomy (examsoft for other)
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Lol yeah no we can’t touch anything. And it’s still our dissections getting used. If it doesn’t look decent they just don’t pin it on that specific animal and use a different one.
But for practicals we get a sheet of paper to write everything down on and then we have to transfer everything to examsoft the last like 15 or something minutes of the exam.
 
We technically aren't allowed to touch for practical exams (but if you desperately want to you won't get yelled at, you just have to let them know if you accidentally f up the tag/pin). However they always pin things in a way that shows exactly where the structure is going and what is around it.

I really like the set up for our practicals (bell ringer, no going back to stations, 2 rest stations). Plus the guy who runs the lab is incredibly fair on exams and just a fantastic human being. The entire anatomy department is, tbh.
 
TheGirlWithTheFernTattoo said:
I really like the set up for our practicals (bell ringer, no going back to stations, 2 rest stations). Plus the guy who runs the lab is incredibly fair on exams and just a fantastic human being. The entire anatomy department is, tbh.
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I liked how ours was set up last time. We had 40 minutes and could wander freely between stations. So I COULD go back to stations if I needed to. And did t have to stand at one station for a while minute if I only took 6 seconds to answer the question. This quarter we apparently have timed stations and I’m not a fan.
 
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