Mcw Class Of 2011 Awesome Part 3!!!!!!!!!!

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samenewme said:
Oh, don't be silly. This class will have challenges of its own with the inclusion of a brand new course cobbled together from several other courses. Nothing about med school is easy, cumulative final or no. I agree they have value and it would be nice to have some before that big cumulative final that is Step I, but not having a couple of them is nothing to be all excited about.
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Not going to class is easy and more efficient.

I would've rather had 4 block 2-sized blocks with no cumulative than the massive cumulatives we had.
 
indo said:
Not going to class is easy and more efficient.

I would've rather had 4 block 2-sized blocks with no cumulative than the massive cumulatives we had.
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oh, come on, our biochem final wasn't *that* comprehensive





 
Ha HA!

Now I've killed all the MCW threadz.
 
where are the best coffee places within the froedert/childrens/mcw complex or ones that are nearby?
 
monv15 said:
where are the best coffee places within the froedert/childrens/mcw complex or ones that are nearby?
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I'm not much of a coffee connoisseur, but there is a Starbucks about a block from the Chancery, and there's an Alterra opening this month on 92nd (Swan) and North Ave. I'm not sure how good the coffee is over at Froedtert, but the Patio there is open 24/7. You might want someone to lead you over there the first time. It's over, left, right, down, left, right, left, right, right, left, up, and around the elevators. 😉
 
TheProwler said:
I'm not much of a coffee connoisseur, but there is a Starbucks about a block from the Chancery, and there's an Alterra opening this month on 92nd (Swan) and North Ave. I'm not sure how good the coffee is over at Froedtert, but the Patio there is open 24/7. You might want someone to lead you over there the first time. It's over, left, right, down, left, right, left, right, right, left, up, and around the elevators. 😉
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There is a place across from the medical college campus called city market that has pretty good coffee and food. I remember the hours being weird though
 
TheProwler said:
I'm not much of a coffee connoisseur, but there is a Starbucks about a block from the Chancery, and there's an Alterra opening this month on 92nd (Swan) and North Ave. I'm not sure how good the coffee is over at Froedtert, but the Patio there is open 24/7. You might want someone to lead you over there the first time. It's over, left, right, down, left, right, left, right, right, left, up, and around the elevators. 😉
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B, A, B, A

Start!
 
block 1 is done 🙂 time for catching up on lots of sleep...
 
monv15 said:
block 1 is done 🙂 time for catching up on lots of sleep...
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Or Karaoke? The choices.

FYI--as far as I know, our Anatomy final is a cumulative exam. I don't know about biochem though.
 
I would also go with the much-needed sleep. We just got our anatomy lab grades through Angel. I missed 10 questions; I thought I would do much better. What's the class average for this? Why are the grade cutoffs like this(honor=94<; high pass=89-93)?! Anyway, as Dr. Kolesari had warned us, I guess I should get used to some "ego-denting."

Back to 😴before the biochem downpour. By the way, nice meeting you Prowler.
 
Ibn Sina said:
I would also go with the much-needed sleep. We just got our anatomy lab grades through Angel. I missed 10 questions; I thought I would do much better. What's the class average for this? Why are the grade cutoffs like this(honor=94<; high pass=89-93)?! Anyway, as Dr. Kolesari had warned us, I guess I should get used to some "ego-denting."

Back to 😴before the biochem downpour. By the way, nice meeting you Prowler.
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For me, my first exam is always my lowest, as I adapt my study style to suit each class. Anatomy gets harder before it gets easier, but blocks 3 and 4 were pretty straight forward. Block 1 is tough because it's all new, and block 2 is hard because there's "more anatomy above the hyoid than below it." After that, you'll probably have it figured out a lot better. Good luck!
 
Yeah, don't worry about first grades too much...a lot of people "need" to bomb a first exam to get a feel for how hard they need to start working. I failed the first written anatomy exam, which is pretty sad because in retrospect it was hella easy compared to everything else we've done in 2+ years, but I realized at that point med school was going to be a lot different than undergrad. So don't fret too much, it's the first block and you have many more blocks to work up to your full potential!

just don't drive yourself batsiht crazy doing it.
 
Agent Splat said:
Yeah, don't worry about first grades too much...a lot of people "need" to bomb a first exam to get a feel for how hard they need to start working. I failed the first written anatomy exam, which is pretty sad because in retrospect it was hella easy compared to everything else we've done in 2+ years, but I realized at that point med school was going to be a lot different than undergrad. So don't fret too much, it's the first block and you have many more blocks to work up to your full potential!

just don't drive yourself batsiht crazy doing it.
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Thanks for the advice guys. The thing is that I actually knew all the structures cold from going to labs, but mostly through studying Netter. I wrongly assumed that for the most part "real world" is like "Netter world." It kind of hurts to study for something and not get back the results. I guess I need to change strategies here.

Monv15, since I'm a tea fan, I don't actually know much about coffee, but many go to the one across from the college. Seriously people should convert to tea-drinking; it has antioxidants (what med students need), some caffeine, and doesn't have the ethical issues that coffee production has. :luck:
 
TheProwler said:
It's over, left, right, down, left, right, left, right, right, left, up, and around the elevators. 😉
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Sounds like how you get out of the forest in the original Legend of Zelda game. Ahh, that brings me back. 🙂
 
Ibn Sina said:
Thanks for the advice guys. The thing is that I actually knew all the structures cold from going to labs, but mostly through studying Netter. I wrongly assumed that for the most part "real world" is like "Netter world." ...
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Ah. Dr. Kolesari likes to say (or maybe it's Dr. Bolender) that the donors often don't read Netter. Old anatomy exams are a big help, but at some point it is good to get with a group of people after hours and go around the lab with your list and find as many structures as you can. Close to exam time, you'll find that groups form spontaneously among all the desperate crammers in the room.
 
Ibn Sina said:
I would also go with the much-needed sleep. We just got our anatomy lab grades through Angel. I missed 10 questions; I thought I would do much better. What's the class average for this? Why are the grade cutoffs like this(honor=94<; high pass=89-93)?! Anyway, as Dr. Kolesari had warned us, I guess I should get used to some "ego-denting."

Back to 😴before the biochem downpour. By the way, nice meeting you Prowler.
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I really liked the rohen atlas. It is made of pictures of real cadaver dissections. They should have a copy on reserve at the lib or you can borrow mine for the semester
 
i'm sick of studying and i wana die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙁😡 and i hate my anatomy group!!!!
 
awww...i'm so sry to hear about ur lab group. what's bad about it? i guess i never realized how much i lucked out with mine.
 
monv15 said:
awww...i'm so sry to hear about ur lab group. what's bad about it? i guess i never realized how much i lucked out with mine.
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there all stinking badgers from uw madison and all know each other and stuff and i'm left out even though i'm awesome!!!!!! j/k but really!
 
BamBoozed said:
i'm sick of studying and i wana die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙁😡 and i hate my anatomy group!!!!
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My anatomy group also sucks. They've known one another from like high school and I get the coldshoulders at times. What's more annoying is that they've had anatomy during their undergrad years, and they tend to sail through it while I struggle to catch up with them. Not a nice experience.
 
BamBoozed said:
there all stinking badgers from uw madison and all know each other and stuff and i'm left out even though i'm awesome!!!!!! j/k but really!
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WOW!!! Your situation is still far better than mine. Sucks to be me.
 
Ibn Sina said:
My anatomy group also sucks. They've known one another from like high school and I get the coldshoulders at times. What's more annoying is that they've had anatomy during their undergrad years, and they tend to sail through it while I struggle to catch up with them. Not a nice experience.
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Sometimes you can just take breaks from them and wander around to other groups and see what cool stuff they've found. As the semester goes on, attendance will drop in lab and you may be able to informally join one or more different lab groups to help out. Whatever you do, don't let your annoying lab group keep you from going to lab unless you are VERY SURE you can study other ways. Just wander and glean instead.

Or ask your smart lab group some questions, get them to do a quick overview for you. Teaching is good practice for them because we'll all be teaching throughout our careers.
 
BamBoozed and Ibn Sina, that really sucks that ur groups are treating u that way. i've had tons of anatomy before but i think our group works v. well together to make sure that everyone knows the stuff for that day before we go on (unless we give up from exhaustion due to excessive fat removal...)

stop by table 5 on the west side. we'll adopt u!
 
btw, our anatomy final is cummulative, but biochem (i believe) is not.
 
monv15 said:
btw, our anatomy final is cummulative, but biochem (i believe) is not.
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I don't know if that's good or bad.

I brought my percentage up on biochem without studying for more than block 1 very well. I decided I was tired of studying and I wanted to watch Arrested Development instead, so I did.

Anatomy wasn't bad either. I made some dumb mistakes, but the heat went out in my apt, so I hurt so bad that I couldn't sleep (even with a space heater and electric blanket), so i went to school at about 5am just to stay warm.

The other final I gave up studying for was path. That was great at how much I didn't care about that final. Grade buffers = very good things.
 
so i just got a 45% on the online blood pressure quiz (i guess i should have actually read through the recommended readings...)--will this significantly hurt my grade? does this even count towards a grade?
 
I think it gets added into your clinical continuum grade, which is composed of so much different crap that you can't really crazy affect it by anything.

And yes, I've been watching "Bring It On", so I take no responsibility for my choice of words above.
 
WCGee said:
so i just got a 45% on the online blood pressure quiz (i guess i should have actually read through the recommended readings...)--will this significantly hurt my grade? does this even count towards a grade?
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I think they just have you take it over until you pass.
 
Ash, leave the first years alone! Be nice.

Sidenote: Xandie studying in the library = bad news. Thank God I could only borrow this book for two hours...
 
collogen lecture tomorrow in biochem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i wonder if they will talk about pepole that get collogen put into there lips and stufff! lol!!!1:laugh:

oops its collagen!
 
hey ashers and xandie, how do you get those funny people cartoons you have? i want one that looks like me!
 
WeeMee.com
 
Ashers said:
Then it says how many times you had to take it on your diploma. I'm glad they didn't have that quiz for us.
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:laugh::laugh::laugh: I love how they cut BP from the curriculum our M1 year so we could have cultural diversity lectures.
 
Xandie said:
so much different crap that you can't really crazy affect it by anything.
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monv15 said:
any study tips for biochem?
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write down the pathways over and over, but at the same time understanding them on a deeper level in terms of what it does and how it's regulated. i loved having a large dry erase board (e.g. the ones in the CMUTS) for this.

but then, i only "passed" biochem. of course, I also was perfectly happy with that.
 
monv15 said:
any study tips for biochem?
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For pathways, write them out over and over and over until you can't stand it, and then just cover up steps in the pathway and quiz yourself. For other processes, recite the process. Any chemical, step, hanger-on, or fleck of lint that Dr. Dahms mentions is fair game. She tells you this, and she means it.

Other instructors will tell you that their questions will not be that detailed, but their sense of detail and yours will probably differ, so be detailed. If you don't understand something, get help right away, but otherwise, biochem rewards repetition and lots of it.

The old exams are somewhat useful even though the subject areas will probably be split across several exams that do not match your exam blocks. It is worth hunting for the relevant subjects. Questions seldom repeat but the topics do and it is good to find your weak areas.
 
are there any other professors that we should watch out for?
 
not much time left to wear cute dresses so i'm so gonna do it while i can!!!!!! 😍 i wish the library were'nt so cold though!!!!!
 
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