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Survived biochem exam
Survived bacteriology
Possibly survived anatomy exam (no grades back yet but feel good about it)

Histology???

uggggggghhhh

Anyone else love histology as much as I do?
 
And please excuse the list format 😉 I am currently making organizational lists in studying for histology 🙂
 
Just wait until you reach histopathology!! Argh!! Hell - hours and hours of looking at slides. Interesting, but terrible all the same.
 
I hear you, Hopeful. I'm actually procrastinating on my last phase of studying for our first histology (called microanatomy) exam tomorrow morning. adkjfheaorjh We're about to tear our hair out. Epithelium, connective tissue, muscle, cartilage, bone, respiratory.

I think it really is true what they say: you forget more in your first semester of vet school than you learned in the entirety of your undergrad career. 🙂 Good luck!!!!
 
...is my favorite class EVER!!

yup, i'm a dork. but come on... CT, epithelium, nerves... everything we're friggin MADE of. and all those purple and pink and blue slides? drop some acid and i could stay in that lab all day. hell, forget the acid and i'd still stay in there all day.

it's not that bad. 😍
 
Histology is definitely an acquired taste, but with practice practice practice it is learnable. Problem is you sometimes don't have enough time...:scared:
 
HopefulUGACVM said:
Survived biochem exam
Survived bacteriology
Possibly survived anatomy exam (no grades back yet but feel good about it)

Histology???

uggggggghhhh

Anyone else love histology as much as I do?
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hahaha...another one who has the same problem as i do. TBH i dun think there is much u can do about it, its not something u can cram like in theory exam. to be good at histo u really need to know wat ur looking at, wat type of cell is it? wat type of gland is it?

try making notes like wat seperates simple squamous epithelia and simple cuboidal? wat is the difference between compound alveolar tubular from simple tubular?

histo exams are unique, its either u know or u dun so after exam u step out of the hall u will feel like u won a million bucks or sunk into a pit of despair...

this website helps alot http://www.lab.anhb.uwa.edu.au/mb140/
 
Its not so much that its difficult, its that it is kinda boring... especially at home reading definition after definition and organizing into lists (prof loves list format... descriptions). Anyway, good luck on your exam today 🙂 Ours is on Monday, I'm sure it will be fine just bored of histology already!

I'm the dork that would rather be in anatomy lab!
 
i acutally like it. my eyes hurt after awhile of staring at slides. but still, its really interesting to learn that stuff.
 
I drew lots of little pictures on flashcards, and made sure to color them- one picture of H and E stained, one picture of triple stained. Then my study group would play "Name that cell type" in lab on three or four different scopes. Everyone picks out a slide, then we go around and try to figure out what we each had.

I also lovvvvvved Wheator's "Functional Histology"- a great way to study when you can't look at the slides themselves.
 
I like histology (called micro anatomy at UTK) even more than I thought I would because we have virtual microscopes here with slides as hi-res JPEGs. It's nice to be able to sit a a computer and save the images to your flash drive to look at at home rather than having to go in and look at a microscope (which I hate!)
 
That was my favorite part of UTK when I interviewed there! The thought of no microscopes just made me SOOO happy. Apparently we are "in transition" to that system here.
 
Having been working on histology for most of the morning (exam is not for 3 weeks but I'm realizing how very little of it I know...) I have to say it is not on my "love list", not even my "like list" but it hasn't quite reached my "despise list". It'll take the exam for it to hit my last list. 🙂
 
While I really like the material in histology I am having a hard time staying focused in the lectures

Funny you should mention histology though, we just finished our first Cell Physiology, Embryology, and just this last Friday, Anatomy (thank god that's over with 😛) I took the Saturday off to celebrate having over a week before our next exam. Which is, coincidentally, is Histology. In fact, I think I'm going to head out to the lab and look over the slides in a bit. Anyone have any good sites or study tips for the class?
 
Well, I wouldn't say that histo is my favorite class, but how sad is this: Yesterday, a group of us went to the open house at the International Crane Foundation and toured the vet lab areas. Now, mind you, this was open to the public. For a demonstration they had set up a avian blood slide for people to look at. Like nerdy vet students, we stood around the microscope forever identifying all the different types of cells! I think everyone else thought we were crazy, getting all excited about bird blood :laugh:
 
Emio said:
...is my favorite class EVER!!

yup, i'm a dork. but come on... CT, epithelium, nerves... everything we're friggin MADE of. and all those purple and pink and blue slides? drop some acid and i could stay in that lab all day. hell, forget the acid and i'd still stay in there all day.

it's not that bad. 😍
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Em- you're crazy. histo is awful, and then it comes back in its mutated form for path and you wonder how you ever got through normal histo in the first place...
 
lol.

i. heart. neuromuscular. junctions.
 
I love looking under the scope!I loved histo LAB. I loved path last semester. This semester is ok, much less m'scope stuff, and no lab portion to the exams. :cry:
 
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