So the past two weeks we have done pretty cool stuff in my
Anatomy lab and I missed both of them. One week they dissected a sheep brain
and the next week they looked at a cadaver. This week we dissected a cow eye
which was pretty neat. We cut off the cornea and the outer part so that all the
liquid on the inside that holds everything in place would fall out. After that
we looked at the optic disk which is kind of a part of the retina and then we
peeled the retina away from the choroid thing. We even popped the cornea off of
the outer part of the eye and it was really weird because it was hard but we
cut it in half and then it kind of just peeled away in layers. After you peel
away the retina though you can see were the optic nerve goes into the eye, and
that is the nerve that goes to the brain to send all the signals your eyes gets
so that your brain kind of paints a picture for you to see. Isn’t that neat?
Well, in case you did not know the optic disk is your blind spot, whatever
light and colors your eye receives and it hits that spot you cannot see it,
weird right? Well anyway, the eye dissection was really cool but I wish I would
have went for the cadaver. It kind of freaks me out like looking at and
touching dead bodies but I still think it is a pretty neat way to learn.
This sounds so cool I have not taken Anatomy yet, but I cannot wait! The body parts fascinate me. This Friday I went on a tour of Findlay, and my guide who was a girl in the program I am interested told me that she loved that class. She told me all the neat things that they did. I also go to see that the class was dissecting a cat, which I thought was so neat! Then at the bottom floor of one of the buildings they had a cadaver lab. She told me that as part of a class you and three other students get to cut into that! I mean how cool is that?! You get to cut open and look at a body that is similar to yours! It is also neat because she says that the groups are small, but not so small you are unavle to do anything. I just cannot wait to do something like that! To see all the organs, vessels, and muscles that make us who we are! The human body is just so interesting! I mean think about it you can see the heart. See what makes it work, and all the arteries. Also I think it would be neat to see not only the brain, but the stomach. I think that it is so interesting the function of it. Also how it digests the food! I am big into these things! I love the muscles too! I mean to thing of how much they do for us. Also how they can get as big as some of the people get them just amazes me!
ReplyDeleteI had not realized that you were actually taking a lab this year; I thought that you were just taking general education classes. It seems like you have a problem with motivating yourself to get out of bed in the morning. Just these passed couple weeks you have missed a couple of classes in English Comp too. It also seems like you are missing the wrong days too. The one day you missed in English Comp we played Jeopardy and our team (which you would have been on) won Jeopardy; we got five bonus points for winning. Also, after hearing you say that you thought this was pretty neat then I have decided that you picked the wrong day to miss this class too. I have never seen you as the type of person to actually enjoy dissecting anything; let alone a sheep brain and cow eye. You always came across as the person that would thing that stuff was disgusting. After reading this I have learned a lot of very useful information about a cow eye (just kidding) and will probably make me never want to poke my cows eye ball again. I was wondering if there was a certain lab that you are going to have to take for physical therapy or if it is just a lab in anatomy that you need. I remember you saying something about having to be on a waiting list for something but I do not remember completely.
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