Don't blame Dr. Hahn, she didn't design it.

Still learning neuroanatomy this week, although we had a couple of breeding and genetics lectures stuck in there for obscurity sake. I actually love Dr. Hahn's class because although she has an obsession with how amazing Dr. de Lahunta is (which I'm sure he's a neurology genius), she actually makes her classes interesting! Our structure of lectures is to always start off with a case study or a video clip first, asks us what is wrong with the patient, and then wants to hear the answer to the neurology behind it by the end of the lecture. I have learnt so much and have resparked my fascination with the brain. Although now I am forced to memorize all the locations of the cranial nerves inside of the brain as well as different pathways each tract runs through. Did I also mention that I have to know the areas of a bunch of nuclei as well?

Ah well, there was definitely some fun stuff this week though in terms of learning neuroanatomy. We got to dissect a sheep brain (in pairs) and fortunately Jenn and I were able to get 2 brains! *zombie time!* We cut one sagittally and the other one transversally so we could see all the different structures.

I'll be posting some of the better pictures I took soon on this blog in case any vet students or interested subjects want to learn about the structures of the brain. I'm going to attempt to label them first (on MS Paint! pray for me...) and then post them. If I end up posting them unlabelled please assume I failed at it or that I got too impatient.

In other non-brainy news though, Kyle and I are going on a day trip to St. Andrew's on Saturday. It's going to be amazing I'm sure..especially to see the expensive golf course (hopefully they'll let us inside of the clubhouse at least) where the British Open was played. Wonder if the grass is still green? Then maybe check out the castle and church while we're there. From the looks of some of the pictures of the church ruins, it looks like it's going to be breathtaking when we see it in person!

And now...off to dinner and probably play God of War with Kyle for a couple of hours. I'm hooked! It's my first PS3 game where I wasn't just punching and kicking someone (SF4) although there is a lot of violence involved. I'm definitely still a newbie when it comes to video games as I do not have the thumb dexterity that Kyle acquired over his 23 years of gaming.