Tuesday, November 10, 2015

The Late Post - a reflection

The busy, over-streached, suffering the snow ball effect, biology student's Lament

Histology: Epithelium, Basal Lamina, Tunica Adventita, Neuromuscular Junction, Eosinophile, Cadherin, Zonula Occludens, Lymph node, Circum Vitallea, hair follicle

"Wow, this is so interesting, I cant wait to study it, and find out as much as I can. Im gonna be able to fill in so many of the gaps in my knowledge. This is going to be fun! Im gonna read, take notes, make colorful note pages, watch histology vides, look at awesome slides of what Ive been wondering about, ask Questions, watch TED TALKs on Histology (always amazing), draw cool designs influenced by histology, hold discussions with my peers about histology, use the research projects to journey down the rabbit hole, and read other chapters in my text book - just cause a picture caught my eye!"

Night A:
"Finally done with my classes for the day! Now I can read my histo...."Hold on, you have an assignment due for this other class tonight, and a quiz, and that Discussion Post, oh dont forget to do what you said you would do for that particular person.
"Ugh, finally done....now I can read my histology book!" (Ten minutes later) the biology student is peacefully dreaming of epithelial linings, cilia, free surfaces & and basal lamina......with her head nestled in her histology text book.

Night B:
"Im so tired, I havent had a break all day, I dont remember eating lunch. I just want to sleeeeeeeep!" A friendly advise giver "sleep is important, you need to be rested, go to bed." "No, I have so many assignments I have to do!" Proceeds to try to work on the computer, zones out, watches videos, tries to read & has to read the same paragraph three times, contemplates going to bed.....re-musters up focus, has a productive 30 minutes, then.............. "what? Its 3am? It was 1:30 two seconds ago!"  Defeated, stumbles to bed.

Night C:
"I cant take it anymore! Im going to study Histology!" Starts reading histology book (or slides), enjoys reading the new information, begins to get into the text - memorizing, developing questions, associating new info with old info......
"You should do this project!" "You forgot to that lab report" "You havent excersized in a week" "You need to write that paper!"
Student is now feeling guilty for studying Histology instead of completing all the other work. Puts book aside & tries to work on a paper....proceeds very slowly, because mind is still on the histology studies.

Oh Histology, to study you more, to study you more. 

(The author of this rambling post is not looking for special favors, sympathy, or empathy. The author only hopes someone will  be entertained by this post.)

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