Second year sucks ball burnishers!!

[I'mFillingFine]

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Discuss. Post hell week schedules.


One we're having right now, on top of our normal class/lab schedule:
Monday: Fixed practical (means more than competency), complete cast crown prep on #30

Tuesday: 8am radiology exam, later on given our schedules for first anesthesia injection schedules, casting assignments, schedule for local dental convention, and told it is all happening next week (including a midterm we all forgot about)

Wednesday: Anterior tooth arrangment for removeable pros due by 11am, 1pm removeable midterm

Thursday: Morning microbio exam (apparently THIS time there are no repeat questions 🙄), 1pm operative PRACTICAL where we aren't given the tooth number/prep beforehand. Also need to hand in typodont fully calibrated and need to have all paperwork in our fake chart finished and signed and in perfect order

Friday: seeing my first patient 🙂D!) for a prophy.

Sat-Sun: comatose.

 

[Regmata]

Sounds like fun to me

 

[jackbauer!]

wow, and i thought my schedule was bad 😳

jb!🙂

 

[johntara04]

Temple

Last Monday - Pathology and lab all morning. Micro all afternoon.
Last Tuesday - Preclinic til 11.30. Oral surgery 12.30-1.20. Pathology 1.30-2.30. Perio Midterm 2.30-4.30
Last Wednesday - Preclinic til 11.30. Dental Public Health Midterm 12.30-1.20. Microbiology Midterm 1.30-3.30
Last Thursday - Preclinic til 11.30. Turn in three unit (9-11) preps, provisional, and wax-up with cutbacks. Pathology lecture 1.30-2.30. Pathology lab mid-term 2.30-4.30.
Friday - Preclinic quiz that is worth 10% of your grade. Then pre-clinic until 11.30. I don't know what was after that, cause I went home and went to bed. 🙂

This week we have a practical in pre-clinic (3 unit preps), pathology midterm and oral surgery midterm. Been a pretty crazy couple of weeks. I can't wait until Friday afternoon.

 

[Streetwolf]

wow, and i thought my schedule was bad 😳

jb!🙂

Us first years don't know what bad is yet. But damn, we really DO think we have it bad.

 

[jackbauer!]

Us first years don't know what bad is yet. But damn, we really DO think we have it bad.

according to 2nd years at maryland, 1st year is more difficult b/c we take boards after D1. i think it gets bad for us in the spring... neuroscience, gross anatomy, pathology, physiology, radiology, and operative..😱 (+ random classes)

jb!🙂

 

[beannaithe]

I agree!! We're right smack dab in the middle of our hell week (x2).

Past Monday : 2nd pharmacology exam
Today : Perio Midterm
Tomorrow : Dental Convention
Friday : Pedo Midterm.
Next Monday : Pathology and Radiology Midterm (projected slides that no one knows what it's on!)
Next Wednesday : Ortho II Midterm
Next Thursday : FPD Practical - PFM and provisional on #8
Next weekend:

On top of it all, we STILL have 5 quizzes a week and our projects for FPD and denture lab due! Yuck!!

I can't wait for this all to be over!!

 

[Streetwolf]

according to 2nd years at maryland, 1st year is more difficult b/c we take boards after D1. i think it gets bad for us in the spring... neuroscience, gross anatomy, pathology, physiology, radiology, and operative..😱 (+ random classes)

jb!🙂

What the hell are you taking now?

We have gross anatomy right now and operative starts up this coming Tuesday (and runs for the rest of the year). We have morph, healthcare systems, and biochemistry as well.

Next 'semester' we finish off morph (ends in Feb). We'll have operative, neuro, physio, radiology, patho, intro to perio, and oral bio. Maybe some other crap I can't remember too. Probably not though. I think I got them all.

 

[tinker bell]

Remind me of those good old days at ucsf. But it's all blurry now. I can't remember a thing of first and second year. Thought it was bad. Then fourth year hit, had to do tons of things for graduation requirements, boards, etc....Turn out it's not all that bad any more. Now, every day when I see 15-18 patients/day. At 5pm, I just grind and thought :"how the hell did I finish all of those things in 8hrs?" Pretty amazing how you progress over time.
Just keep going like the bunny and you'll be out of dental school in no time. Believe me, third & fourth year zoom by very fast

 

[jackbauer!]

What the hell are you taking now?

We have gross anatomy right now and operative starts up this coming Tuesday (and runs for the rest of the year). We have morph, healthcare systems, and biochemistry as well.

Next 'semester' we finish off morph (ends in Feb). We'll have operative, neuro, physio, radiology, patho, intro to perio, and oral bio. Maybe some other crap I can't remember too. Probably not though. I think I got them all.

we finished cell/molecular a couple weeks ago, micro/immuno/viro final next week, started our 2nd perio course today, oral health final tomorrow... we're in the midst of radio, scientific evidence, dental anatomy...

in a couple weeks we'll be starting gross and operative.

radio and gross carry over to the spring semester..

i know its confusing, but i take it all week by week 😎

jb!🙂

 

[Streetwolf]

Damn I shoulda gone there. I hate cell/molecular haha.

 

[jackbauer!]

Damn I shoulda gone there. I hate cell/molecular haha.

i'm assuming you haven't made it to micro yet?

jb!🙂

 

[crrees]

this thread makes me excited for d-school

edit: that sounded sarcastic..but i am serious LOL

 

[I'mFillingFine]

Yaay!! I'm (almost) done with my horrible week!!!!!

weeeeeee


Thank GOD! I'm still a bit buzzed from my martinis. Man, oh man. We had a hellish practical this afternoon, where they sprung a #12MO on us (this is supposed to be an ANTERIOR resin course.) Now, it would have been fine, but we did a #5MO on a competency a few weeks ago, and they still haven't returned our grades!!! So since a 5MO and 12MO is basically the same tooth, how are we supposed to know what we screwed up on last time without our full analysis? eeesh.....I'm sure we all made the same mistakes again. 🙄 It was super intense...you could hear a pin drop in the room whenever the handpieces weren't going.

Not to mention all the other crappy exams (micro was ROUGH today), various classes, and labs this week. And let's hope I don't kill my FIRST patient tomorrow!

weee.....

*comatose*

 

[clickytop]

Yaay!! I'm (almost) done with my horrible week!!!!!

weeeeeee


Thank GOD! I'm still a bit buzzed from my martinis. Man, oh man. We had a hellish practical this afternoon, where they sprung a #12MO on us (this is supposed to be an ANTERIOR resin course.) Now, it would have been fine, but we did a #5MO on a competency a few weeks ago, and they still haven't returned our grades!!! So since a 5MO and 12MO is basically the same tooth, how are we supposed to know what we screwed up on last time without our full analysis? eeesh.....I'm sure we all made the same mistakes again. 🙄 It was super intense...you could hear a pin drop in the room whenever the handpieces weren't going.

Not to mention all the other crappy exams (micro was ROUGH today), various classes, and labs this week. And let's hope I don't kill my FIRST patient tomorrow!

weee.....

*comatose*

A hangover + first patient = polaroid moment. Bring the camera.

 

[Streetwolf]

i'm assuming you haven't made it to micro yet?

jb!🙂

Second year, for one month (Sept). Pharm is also second year, once a week, the whole year minus a month or two at the end.

 

[armorshell]

Next week I have:

An anatomy "quiz" which is really a test, a esthetic waxing practical (7-10 in 150 minutes), an operative practical (29 MO and 18 MO condensation) and a fixed practical (9, no provisional).

Did I mention the lab is closed this weekend for boards? 🙁

 

[Turnerjo13]

Last friday: Community health midterm
Weekend Study IB/Histo
Monday: Integrative Biosciences midterm (biochem Physio, Neuro)
Tuesday: histology midterm (lecture + lab)
Wednesday: quiz in fix prosth, two full gold crown preps due on 2nd mandibular second molars
Thursday: #8 wax up due, continue on #11 and start #5, IM basketball game

 

[I'mFillingFine]

A hangover + first patient = polaroid moment. Bring the camera.

I did it! woooo!!! I HAD MY FIRST PATIENT!!! (and all traces of the night before were well worn off by then.) Let's hope she didn't realize I had no freaking clue what I was doing and was just glad for some ant. mandibular lingual calculus so I actually had something to hack away at (she had excellent OH and only one 4mm pocket.) 😀

 

[1992Corolla]

Temple has two weeks of crap.

We had:
6 tests (perio, micro, path, public health, OS, path lab)
two quizzes(RDIII, path)
practical PFM prep (#9, and #11)
ortho retainer (not hard just time crunching)

It is slow for now but we basically have a test a week until December when we get it all over again for finals. So far so good though.

 

[INFNITE]

we have 13 exams and practicals between now and winter break...doesnt get any better than that....

 

[armorshell]

I got bored of counting at 15 and I hadn't even gotten to the fixed practicals or perio yet 😛

 

[tinker bell]

I remember second year was the worst year of dental school at all. But I can't remember how bad it was any more. I remember baking porcelain, casting gold FPD. Taking lots of CE for crown & bridge, do veneer, etc...But the whole class passed second year with no problem. Hang in there, it will be over before you know it.

 

[tinman831]

Oral pathology exam in 5 hours. :cry:

 

[v&andy_yankee]

it'll all come full circle....come third year, you'll be bored out of your minds, trying to pick up new hobbies to fill in the time.

In all seriousness, second year is more fatiguing, but I think third year is more stressful. Second year is tiring because of endless tests that go on and on, but at least you can still control your schedule and what happens. Third year, it's stressful because it's based on your patients, who can decide if they like or hate you, or if they decide to show up or stay home to watch Jerry Springer.

 

[Ebull]

Vandy, thats the funniest avatar i've seen yet!

 

[I'mFillingFine]

well, I've survived a few hell weeks in a row there. I'm sure I don't have to say what we did (you're all doing the same amount of fixed, removable, operative.......ah, the things we can do to heads-on-sticks!!!) I'm just chugging along and trying VERY hard to get out of my lifelong habit of planning every moment and taking it day by day. I still plan which projects I'll do which day but if I take an instant to think about what's coming up for the rest of the semester and next semester, I'll rupture my adrenal glands or probably just PinDex my face or something. (WOAH! Horror movie idea!!!)

Anyway, something interesting: in the wake of all the crap we just drilled through, it has now apparently turned into Bitch Week. Our professors are usually good and organized and my classmates are usually content to whine about the normal obnoxious exams and move on. But last week and this week we've been YELLED at every day by different professors (for dishonesty of all things, even to the point of telling us they don't want us in their profession) and my classmates are going insane. People are complaining about everything that's happening in every course, meet with professors several times a day so that the profs get upset and confused and keep changing course policies which upsets the other 90% of the class who DIDN'T meet with them. Our class officers are overloaded with trying to mediate and are getting frustrated themselves and are losing power (since profs are tired of speaking with them.) And I'm sure people want to move higher and bitch to the dean, but last time they did that they were reminded to stick to starting with the course directors.

I mean, it's nothing serious or crazy....accusations of ILLEGAL BROWNIE AND GREENIE POLISHING (GASP!!😱😱), poorly written exams, subjective practical grading, fights, grade discrepencies...on and on.

I almost wish we were too busy again so people would shut up. 😀 I mean, if you worry this much, you're going to go insane! I am usually a very proactive person, and if there's an exam question I know I can challenge, I'll go for it. But you have to let most of this stuff go, in my opinion. You get too many grades in second year to agonize over each one. It's all boiled down to a SINGLE LETTER anyway...and the point is to become clinically competent so that we can START learning upstairs on patients. People are expecting perfection now. This is an evolution. I have trouble taking tons of criticism and failure (which we all get, especially when we start drilling) as much as any other classmate, but I try to laugh at myself and usually don't tell anyone if I'm offended. 😉


Suck it up, people! How on earth can you be surprised at it being this difficult when you knew it was going to be all along? 🙄 I find it pretty hilarious. I'm not doing extremely well myself and I don't mean to sound superior in any way. There's just tons of negative energy going around right now.

I feel better!! Thanks, invisible intarwebz people.

 

[Regmata]

If you guys would just stay out of preclin when it isn't your turn, all your troubles would disappear. 😱

 

[I'mFillingFine]

If you guys would just stay out of preclin when it isn't your turn, all your troubles would disappear. 😱

But I's a second year....preclin is OURS! Do you mean my class goes in on Wednesdays? They'd better not! *wields tiny Jewish fist*

 

[goosestuff]

accusations of ILLEGAL BROWNIE AND GREENIE POLISHING (GASP!!😱😱)

??? What be that?

 

[I'mFillingFine]

??? What be that?

*rubs ear after goosie finally lets go*

And I was in my jammies, too....😡


Brownies and greenies are those sexy rubber polishing cones (colored brown and green, of all things) that you probably have in your supply issue. They're used for polishing metal (usually on a die once you've made a casting, but sometimes in the mouth for various reasons.) You see, if we nick adjacent teeth (or cross-arch ones, sometimes 😀) during a drilling exam, the professors want to see how bad it is, understandably. So they don't want you trying to polish it up. Given, you could argue that preclin should be a true simulation of...er.....well...clinic, so we NEED to know the best tools for repairing any roughness that we cause accidentally. (They always tell us to just "polish it up and give a fluoride treatment" if it does happen, as long as it's small.) However, they want to grade it and see it in its original form, blah blah blah....

For some reason, last week, they felt that it was cheating for us to sneakily clean our preps up at the end of the practicals and gave us the whole academic dishonesty lecture, which my school is super serious about. Usually with that kind of thing, they sort of roll their eyes and remind us to grow up and not be tricky since they've seen everything. They just overreacted. So now we have to be super careful and ask before we use ANYTHING. During today's competency, it was only my immense self-control and general social prowess that prevented me from raising my hand before changing each bur and making sure I could switch to a #170. And now 330, if that's ok? Now I'm switching to a polishing diamond to make the bevels, ok?? 🙄

/end nerd.


how's gross?

 

[goosestuff]

*rubs ear after goosie finally lets go*

And I was in my jammies, too....😡


Brownies and greenies are those sexy rubber polishing cones (colored brown and green, of all things) that you probably have in your supply issue. They're used for polishing metal (usually on a die once you've made a casting, but sometimes in the mouth for various reasons.) You see, if we nick adjacent teeth (or cross-arch ones, sometimes 😀) during a drilling exam, the professors want to see how bad it is, understandably. So they don't want you trying to polish it up. Given, you could argue that preclin should be a true simulation of...er.....well...clinic, so we NEED to know the best tools for repairing any roughness that we cause accidentally. (They always tell us to just "polish it up and give a fluoride treatment" if it does happen, as long as it's small.) However, they want to grade it and see it in its original form, blah blah blah....

For some reason, last week, they felt that it was cheating for us to sneakily clean our preps up at the end of the practicals and gave us the whole academic dishonesty lecture, which my school is super serious about. Usually with that kind of thing, they sort of roll their eyes and remind us to grow up and not be tricky since they've seen everything. They just overreacted. So now we have to be super careful and ask before we use ANYTHING. During today's competency, it was only my immense self-control and general social prowess that prevented me from raising my hand before changing each bur and making sure I could switch to a #170. And now 330, if that's ok? Now I'm switching to a polishing diamond to make the bevels, ok?? 🙄

/end nerd.


how's gross?

not yet. not till january.

 

[I'mFillingFine]

I'm in the middle of a 5-day-long casting practical. We prepped the mystery tooth (ended up being an MOD onlay on #30 with buccal cusp reduction and non-esthetic non-holding cusp reduction) on Thursday and have until Tuesday to cast it and get 1.5 hours to insert into our typodonts, which were taken away in the meantime.



that is all.



well, "all" besides the other 4 finals we still have next week 👎

 

[tinman831]

I've just finished 7 final exams this week. Did horrible on the last 3. I don't know why they can't just spread out these block exams a little more.

😳

 

[1992Corolla]

Ours were nice and spread out over three weeks.

2 on week one
3 on week 2
3 on week 3

Still stressful, but not like having all 8 in one week!

 

[mochafreak]

We had 6 cumulative finals in the last two days alone, all worth 40-100% of our grade...can't even remember what we had the week before that...course, I don't want to remember any of it. 😀

 

[I'mFillingFine]

how about credits per semester? We had 30.5 this sem. and a blissful 25.something next.


c'mon...we can do this. 👍 Third year is all rainbows and cotton candy, right? Just have to get there.

 

[mochafreak]

We have 52 both semesters...and this semester we don't even get a frakin lunch break on Fridays (8-5) straight...