A sick, twisted case of the Mondays

Well now that Monday is over I'm pretty much halfway done with my week.

On my very first day of pharm school I had seven hours of class. Seven mentally-handicapping hours. It started at 8 am this morning with my first lab, Clinical Anatomy and Physiology, for three hours in the Science Building (the only class I have that is a more than a five minute walk from my dorm). Ten minutes after it concluded I had to be back in the Pharmacy Building for Integrated Lab lecture at eleven. After a short lunch break all 150 of us sat in the main lecture hall and had Medical Biochemistry, Clinical Anatomy/Physiology lecture, and the Profession of Pharmacy back to back to back until four o'clock. Count 'em up and that's five classes. Five. I only have seven classes in all, and that's including labs. Oh, and I already have three classes of homework.

Afterwards some of the pharmacy girls and I went to Meijer where I bought myself a fish. I'm not really sure what kind of fish it is, and the only way to describe it is that it's gold but not a goldfish. I enjoy him though--he takes a small piece of the loneliness away. My pharmacy buddy across the hall, Beth, and I went to McDonald's afterwards in a severely premature avoidance of dorm food. Now here I am, already wishing I didn't have homework.

In general I thought the day went well. I feel well prepared for my Anatomy/Physiology class, though I'm sure from time to time I'll need to review. There are no pre-reqs of either subject to get into pharm school, but I've already taken introductory courses in each so I'm not a total stranger to the subject. Integrated Lab seems too much like Gen Chem for my tastes, but the material we covered today was easy enough (once more just a few things I need to review). My Biochem professor spent a long period of time telling us how difficult it will be to get an A, and that the effort we used to put into an A will only barely get us a C in his class. So he's an optimist I can tell. The Profession of Pharmacy seems enjoyable. Nothing to memorize or calculate--just good old common sense issues about being in a professional setting with sick old people.

Tomorrow I don't have class until one and I'm done by three. In other words, the complete opposite from today. :D

*whew* So that was my first day. I survived. I am now officially a pharmacist in training. ^_^