College: Fall Semester 2011

So I started school again, and yes, this time as an official nursing major at FMCC :) I only have 2 real classes: Nursing science (5 hours of lecture, 3 hours of lab) and Anatomy and Physiology II (3 hours of lecture, 3 hours of lab).  I also have an online physical education class, but I don't start that until October.  Thus far I like my classes, don't love Wednesdays, but I like my professors or teachers or instructors or whatever the hell you want to call them.  Mrs. Rohrs for Nursing is very up beat and fun and I like her a lot and Ms. Macleod for A&P is also upbeat and bubbly and kinda quirky, but she scares me at the same time. . .I was spoiled for A&P 1 and she demands a lot more and we have a lot more work to do. . .Scares me.  But anyways, I'm hoping for a good, successful semester. . .As soon as I figure out what the hell I'm doing :)) 

Anatomy and Physiology Today :)

Mood: Happy :DDD

Weather: Warm :DD

Today I had a wonderful time in lab, no I wasn't bored or confused out of my mind.  I'm a bit sad that tonight was our last lab. . .it was just starting to get fun.  Tonight we had to disect a sheep eye, we also did a few things with sensation and perception.  As always, I have pictures :)

Today I had 3 other lab partners because a lot of people dropped the class or didn't show up so partners are all mixed and matched.  One of my lab partners I got to stab with one of those pointy ended, pencil ended compass things on her face, lip, finger, and neck to see how long it took her to feel more than one point.  Then I got to put marker on my other lab partner, her picture is shown above.  We did this on the back of her hand, her palm, fingertip, forearm, and the back of her neck.  With her eyes closed I was supposed to put a mark on her (purple) and then she was supposed to use another marker to try to mark the same spot.   We did this three times, this is the image of the back of her neck.  This lab partner will hence forth be known as Polkadot :)) She is the one I did the rat disection with :)  And the last lab partner we timed how long, without looking, she could feel a penny on her arm.  I don't have pictures of the other two.  The one I got to stab, I will call her Old Lady. . .she's like 30!!!!!!!!!! O.O and the other one. . .I will call her Penny (I will explain the reason for the nicknames at the end of this post)  We had a lot of laughs today in Lab.

Then we went on to the eye disection.  Poor Mr. Hottie never has the best body parts available to him for us to disect.  There were like 3 buckets of eyes.  This one, I believe it was from 1995, it was covered with mold :(  The ones we did were not, but they were all dry and icky.  Just thought I would share this nasty picture because its fun :D

Then we finally disected the eye.  It was hard to cut because the outside is very tough, not to mention it moves whne you're trying to cut it so we had to pin it down, as you can sort of see in the picture.  Old Lady got squirted with eye juice. . .I cracked up.  Luckily she was standing otherwise it would have got her right in the face lmao.  The circular pink thing is the lense and the tan membrane is the retina. . .see?  I did learn something!  We actually discussed my blog in class today. . .I have no idea how we got started on the subject but I stupidly told Mr. Hottie that I have a nickname for him on my blog so he had to look.  So the entire class knows about my blog now (HELLO FELLO A&P STUDENTS, I HOPE YOU ENJOY MY BLOG :) ) Mr. Hottie spent like an hour looking for his nickname on here, but he couldn't find it.  He found Mr. Hippie's and I told him about Mrs. ADD, Mr. Suicide, and Mrs. Stockings, but I wouldn't tell him his (for the obvious reasons of course!).  He also checked out my twitter :P So we all got discussing nicknames and my blog and what not, a lot of people wrote down the address so I hope they check it out (hello if you did)  Also feel free to add me via facebook, there should be a link on the right hand side ---------------->  (except you Mr. Hottie cuz that would just be creepy. . .just sayin)  But I would like to say that though difficult, I really have enjoyed Anatomy and Physiology and I learned a lot like:  What part of the body grows the most when stimulated???? Think about it

Think about it

Think about it

No!  Get your mind out of the gutter!!!

Think Again!

Yeah. . .its the pupil!!!!! lmao

I also learned how to rememember 12 of the cranial nerves:  Oh Oh Oh To Touch and Feel Virgin Girl's Vaginas and Hymens

(Olfactory, Optic, Oculomotor, Trochlear, Trigeminal, Abducens, Facial, Vestibulocochlear, Glossopharyngeal, Vagus, Accessory, Hypoglossal)  Yup. . .thats what we learned. :) But it was just a lot of fun today, lots of laughs. . .it was a good one.

Sheep Brains :)

Yesterday in my anatomy and physiology lab we had to disect sheep brains :)  They are really squishy and it was a lot of fun, just thought I'd share some pictures with you.  The full brains are 12 years old and they smelled AWFUL!!!! but the half brains were new and they were more fun and squishy. . .just sayin.

UPDATE: Stressful Day

Mood: hard to explain

Weather: Beautiful today :) the snow is melting!!!

Well I just wanted to let everyone know that I did in fact get everything worked out.  I was able to drop my english class without a problem, and switch into the Sociology class that I had been attending the whole time.  I had to go see the dean and she signed my papers without any problems at all.  That is a big relief off of my chest :) Just thought I would give an update on how that all went down. 

Stressful Day

Mood: Content

Weather: Won't freakin' warm up yet

So today started out as a pleasant, normal day.  I went to college this afternoon, got an 85 of my bar and beverage management test, was the only person to participate in my psychology class, flirted with a certain someone ;) and went home to study until my Anatomy and Physiology test that I had tonight.  Well I was home for about an hour before my parents got home and brought the mail, I had two letters from FMCC.  The first one I opened informed me that I had gotten all the english credits done in high school and I was no longer required to take english, so I had to go see an advisor to, once again, drop the english class I was in.  I was quite happy about that because I don't especially like my english class and its really my only source of homework.  The only thing that upset me was that I had just finished writing my paper that was due thrusday for that class. . .what a waste lol.  Then I opened the other letter.  It was informing me that I was failing a class because of attendance, mind you I haven't missed a day of school yet this semester so I was very confused and concerned.  Well it turns out I've been attending the wrong class so far this semester.  Somehow on the first day when I had to check this bulletin board if any of my classrooms had changed I somehow got the class room wrong but ended up in the same class, at the same time, just with a different professor.  So I immediately drove to the college to try to get everything straightened out.  I was able to drop my english class no problem and they told me I should be able to just switch into the class I've been attending without a problem but the advisor had to get in contact with my professor and the dean so I'll find out more about that tomorrow.  So that relieved a lot of my stress but by the time that was all done I didn't really have any time to study for my test.  It was 90 questions of hell, half were easy and I know I got them right where the other half were quite hard and I'm unsure, I should also get my grade for that tomorrow as well as my sociology test I took last week.  What a day, at least its over and I can go back to flirting with that certain someone.  Peace and Love all. 

College: FMCC Edition Part IV

Overall I have to say that I am very pleased with my decision to transfer to FMCC...so far anyways.  One thing I've noticed that is different is the professors.  At FM none of my professors are doctors, and none of them seem very arrogant and talk to their students like they are better than them.  In all of my classes the professors told their stories of how they made it to where they are today to show that they can relate to many of us.  They all seem so much more down to earth and like normal people, that wasn't the case at Oneonta at all in my opinion.  At Oneonta almost all of my professors were doctors and almost all of them were very arrogant and cocky.  I also enjoy walking through the hallway and seeing people I went to high school with, its comforting to me.  Not only that, but one of my professors knows my family and used to work with my father.  So I'm definately getting more of a "homey" and comfortable feel at FMCC.  I am very happy to be back in school as well.  I'm in such a better mood and feeling so much better about myself now that I'm getting up every day, getting dressed and doing something.  I really haven't had to do that since early October.  I get a sense of pride from going to school full time and working part time and I just feel so much better in general.  I like all of my classes as well as my professors so far. . .So as I said, I'm pretty happy with my decision and I hope everything continues to go well :)

College: FMCC Edition Part III

Today I had my other 3 classes.  First I had Bar and Beverage Management.  The professor for this class is the only female professor that I have, but I really like her.  She is very bubbly and she seems very happy in her profession.  I'm excited for the class not only because its essentially bartending class, but because she seems like a very fun professor as well.  The next class I had was General Psychology and oh my goodness let me tell you about this professor.  First of all he was about 5 minutes late for the class.  He walks in and he is this short, slightly balding, hardcore hippie wearing a leather Harley Davidson like jacket, a beard, black jeans and circle shaped glasses.  He throws down his jacket and underneath he is wearing a black button up with the top few buttons undone exposing his chest hair.  Without saying much of anything he starts playing this youtube video:



His name is Marty Friedman. . .I don't know about you but when an older gentleman's name is Marty I immediately assume he is a hippie.  He seems pretty cool, but his voice is very monotone and I can see myself falling asleep in his class.  Then for my final class of the day, I had Anatomy and Physiology.  Its a 3 hour night class, luckily I have a very attractive professor who, as soon as I walked in the room said to me, "so what's your name pretty lady."  He looks and reminds me very much of Mr. Schoff <3 He is very interesting and kept my attention for the full 3 hour class.  Best part: The seats recline!! lol  Well, its been another good day at college :)

College: FMCC Edition Part II

So my second class that I took yesterday; English, was absolutely amazing.  When the professor was doing attendance he asked me if I was related to all of the Oesers in sprakers and Canajoharie, I said that I was and I asked him if he knew my dad.  Apparently he had worked with my dad an my uncle and he pretty much knew my whole family.  I absolutely love this professor, not because he knows my family but because you can really tell he loves what he is doing.  He is such a real person, and not the typical, arrogant professor.  He was very funny, easy going, and down to earth.  After class I went to one of the little loungy things to wait for my mom to pick me up, he came by and talked to me some more and I found out that I knew his son and he told me a few more stories about my grandfather and my dad, apparently my grandfather was his bus driver :P So I have to say all in all, yesterday was a very good day.  :)

College: FMCC Edition

So I had my first class today: Intro to Sociology.  I have been very excited about starting school again and so far its been a good day.  I am currently sitting in the Library blogging :P  Well I have to say that FMCC is very different than Oneonta and Canajoharie as well.  My first class went well, but when I looked around at some of the people it was exactly what I expected to see at FM.  Maybe I'm wrong, but the majority of the students all resembled the students I went to high school with that skipped school every other day, had children in high school, and never did their homework.  I can't shake the feeling that FMCC is the college people go to because they're supposed to, not because they actually want to.  I'm trying to stay optimistic, and as I've said everything is going well so far, but I don't know.  It was also interesting because my friend Ashley's mom was also in my Sociology class and we sat next to each other.  I like her mom, but it was a very different experience going to school with my friend's mom haha.  So now I'm sitting in the Library and looking around. . .the Library is stuffed full of Asians.  I have never seen so many in my life.  I do enjoy the diversity because its something I never had in high school, but I find it interesting that they all gravitate to the library.  Thinking of Kelsey right now because she is the only Asian that I really know haha.  Well everything is going well, I'm going to go try to find my next class and go to lunch while I wait.  :)

Classes-Spring Semester

So I scheduled my classes at FMCC the other day and this is what i'm taking:

Intro to Sociology on Tuesdays on Thursdays at 9:30 to 10:55 with Guiffre
Bar and Beverage Management on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays at 1:00 to 1:55 with Henderson
English on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2:00 to 3:25 with Vennette
General Psychology on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays at 2:00-2:55 with Friedman
Anatomy and Physiology on Wednesdays from 6:00-8:55 and my lab is Thursdays from 6:00-8:55 with Barr

First Day of Classes

So today was my first day of classes here at SUNY Oneonta.  I think I have already told you this, but if not, I have the best schedule EVER.  My earliest class is noon and my latest class ends at 5:15!!! And on fridays, I'm done at 1:50.  Anywho, today I started out my day with Math for the Liberal Arts.  I have a feeling that is going to be the easiest class I have ever taken and will ever take.  For homework, I got to draw shapes.  The funny thing is my shapes sucked but luckily he doesn't collect homework.  The professor is. . .hard to hear and sweaty.  lol. My second class was Western Civilations I at 1 o'clock.  That class is in a small lecture hall.  The professor seems a little bit like a prick.  That class, I believe, will be the hardest class of all the classes I'm taking this semester.  I'm not a strong history student as is. . .so. . .but then I had my intro to psych class.  My professor was almost 15 minutes late lol.  But she seems really cool and I think I'm really going to enjoy the class.  She seems like she really enjoys her job and I think that will be my favorite class as a result.  So yeah, that was my day :)