Physiology


I'm finally working! Kind of... I'm now officially assistant in the respiration hall of the physiology practical, and yesterday was my first day in duty ^_^
About 30 students, including me, applied for the job and went through hell - a practical-marathon of 5 topics in 25 hours; from friday 13.00 to sunday 19.00, in groups of 15 students each. x_x
It was really tough, but I'm currently broke, and hey, it's better than operating the deep-fryer in Hungry Jack's!

Remember my trouble learning for the physiology practicals in "Schweinehund, my dear pet" last year? The beast got me again and I was rather lazy the following days. The next weekend I spent locked up in the "Institute of Physiology" in Berlin, together with fellow students who were either over-motivated or broke, or both. There were five halls, with experiments to do to each of these topics: muscle, acid-base/kidney, heart, respiration, electrophysiology. [Usually these are spread out over five weeks in the semester - one each week, with seven hours lenght, and you have more time for preparations in between them!]
It was very exerting because oral examinations were threatening us poor wannabe-assistants from the first to the last minute! The instructors chose three students per practical via the "Glücksfee" (="fortune fairy") - a very sarcastic titling as the drawn ones were rather unhappy to be chosen! Anyway, I was jittering along until the last day, and guess what happened? I was struck by my usual luck, and I don't mean this ironic. I got my test in the respiration practical - the only one that I really fully prepared! Actually I liked that hall already before the practical started, and it was no surprise that I chose it to be my working unit.
When we dragged us all home sunday evening, exhausted to the limit and happy to have survived, we looked back and the difficulties of the last days seemed to fall off like a stony burden. It wasn't so bad after all!

Posted: Do - Januar 8, 2004 at 01:11 Uhr      

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