Sweaty Day

Today was a bit tiresome and sweaty.  After having a long weekend with Memorial Day on Monday sort of threw my system off.  We started the day with a vigorous 5 minute step test in our physiology lab which got me all sweaty.  It doesn't take much to get the sweat going on me.  I think it is because I used to train around 15-20 hours a week on the bike just a few years ago.  You have to sweat all the time to stay cool when you are producing that much heat from training.  The problem is that if I do any physical activity nowadays, I start sending molecules to the surface.  And sometimes the surface they arrive to is embarrassingly noticeable, like today.  I will not elaborate on that.  People sweat, so what.  Right?  :)  All I know is that the workout clothes are coming out for adjustive skills - no more cotton!

Regardless of my overproducing sweat glands, I had a stellar day in adjustive skills.  I was able to set up my supine thoracic moves easily and efficiently today.  The more I practice, the better I get at setting up the move appropriately enough to cause movement before adding an impulse.  Supposedly, it is like taking "it" to the edge of a cliff then flicking it to move - it is all about setting up the proper biomechanics and torquing it just right.

I am a bit worried about our neuroanatomy test that is next Monday, June 1st.  I haven't read much of our new material and haven't been the best at paying attention to my fullest ability while sitting in lecture.  The material is too complicated to get the first time around.  The first lecture preps you for when you go through the material on your own.  And many times you have to hit the notes more than once to get it down.  There are no papers to write or projects to get down.  We study scientific information about the human body and try to remember every single detail.  The exams are mainly multiple choice and some true/false.  Trying to remember everything you read is a task that requires incredible patience and stamina.  

Try this, if you are reading this blog post and you are not a fellow student of mine, go to Wikipedia and type in; Cranial Nerves.  Look the list and see where they all poke out of the brain then take a little time to memorize the number that corresponds with the nerve's name.  See how long it takes to get the nerves down then try to memorize where they come from off of the brain itself.  This small feat will be taxing for most.  Now, to try and relate with what my colleagues and I endure on a daily basis, multiply the time you spent doing this activity by 50 (because I think the activity will take most an hour to accomplish) and you will have a rough idea what we go through each week.  Thinking isn't hard, it is the length of time you must think and the complexity of the thoughts you must think that makes our program challenging.  

Off to dinner then neuroanatomy until 11 tonight!

Good night