Friday, December 11, 2009

It’s the moment of Truth…

Last night for studying, kids…  One last practical to take, and this semester is in the books.  I think I probably need a 30 out of 40 to keep an A in the class.  This is a guess, though, since I don’t know what I got on the last exam.  I don’t think the last exam was as air-tight as I’ve been on previous ones…  I wrote 11 pages for the essays, and that wasn’t counting the extra credit diagram.  But, I kept thinking of things I could have added once I left.  Of course, after literally THREE HOURS of non-stop writing, I HAD TO finish.  I really needed to go to the “little girls’ room” at the end of hour 2, but since I was nowhere near finished and they won’t let you leave, I had to stick it out for as long as all those little sphincters would let me (haha…I’m hilarious…or just sharing TMI…but it’s true, and THAT, my friends, is EXAM MATERIAL you can take to the bank!!).

Anyway, good luck to everyone with your studying tonight.  I think that my last post had a link to just about everything, and if not, it was pretty darn close.  It’s been a GREAT semester, and despite all the long nights and stress from cramming all this good information into my head, I really enjoyed it and had fun meeting all of you!  I will be keeping this blog around for my future classes since it seems to have been a pretty decent study tool.  So…if we have more classes together, keep this page bookmarked!  And if we don’t have more classes together and you just want to see me get my mind MELDED when I take O-Chem in the fall, stick around for that, too!  It’s going to be GOOD TIMES!!  Next up, though: Cellular Biology and General Chemistry 1.  I had chem 1 and some cell bio in college, but good lord, that was almost 15 years ago that I took those classes, and I can barely remember a darn thing!!  (I can’t believe I just put that number in PRINT!) 

So, good luck in your future studies, and hopefully, I’ll be seein’ ya somewhere again in the future!!  :)

-L

Thursday, December 10, 2009

A Little Help For the Last Practical! WoooHooo!! :)

Found a great website thanks to my alma mater... Wish I'd found this earlier in the year... It's actually pretty good. This will give you a set of links to models for the urinary system and the reproductive system (male and female):

Go Buffs!
http://www.colorado.edu/intphys/iphy3415/models/

Histology:
http://www.kumc.edu/instruction/medicine/anatomy/histoweb/

Digestive Lab

Digestive Models:
http://nhscience.lonestar.edu/bioL/ap2model/digestive.htm


Digestive Slides:

Salivary Glands:
http://nhscience.lonestar.edu/bioL/digestive/salivary.htm
http://www.austincc.edu/histologyhelp/organs/op_salivary.html

Esophagus Slides:
http://nhscience.lonestar.edu/bioL/digestive/esophagu.htm
http://www.austincc.edu/histologyhelp/organs/oq_esophagus.html

Stomach Slides:
http://nhscience.lonestar.edu/bioL/digestive/stomach2.htm
http://nhscience.lonestar.edu/bioL/digestive/stomach.htm
http://www.austincc.edu/histologyhelp/organs/or_stomach.html

Small Intestine:

Duodenum : http://nhscience.lonestar.edu/bioL/digestive/smintest.htm
Duodenum: http://www.austincc.edu/histologyhelp/organs/os_duodenum.html
Jujunum: http://nhscience.lonestar.edu/bioL/digestive/jejunum.htm
Ilium: http://nhscience.lonestar.edu/bioL/digestive/ileum.htm
Ilium: http://www.austincc.edu/histologyhelp/organs/ot_ileum.html

Pancreas: http://district.bluegrass.kctcs.edu/shirley.whitescarver/BIO139Lab/BIO139/139Lab12/Lab12EndocrineSlides.html (scroll to the bottom of the page)

Liver:
http://www.austincc.edu/histologyhelp/organs/ov_liver.html
http://www.kumc.edu/instruction/medicine/anatomy/histoweb/gitract/gitract.htm



Urinary System Lab:

Kidney: http://www.austincc.edu/histologyhelp/organs/ow_kidney.html
Kidney - Nephron: http://nhscience.lonestar.edu/bioL/urinary/nephron.htm

Bladder Slides:
http://nhscience.lonestar.edu/bioL/urinary/bladder3.htm
http://nhscience.lonestar.edu/bioL/urinary/bladder.htm

Kideny Model:
http://www.colorado.edu/intphys/iphy3415/models/kidney.html

Reproductive Systems Lab:

Testis Slide: http://www.austincc.edu/histologyhelp/organs/oy_testis.html
Penis Crossection: http://nhscience.lonestar.edu/bioL/reproductive/penis.htm


Male Reproductive Models:
http://www.colorado.edu/intphys/iphy3415/models/repro_male.html
http://www.colorado.edu/intphys/iphy3415/models/male_2005.html

Female Reproductive Models:
http://www.colorado.edu/intphys/iphy3415/models/repro_female.html
http://www.colorado.edu/intphys/iphy3415/models/female_2005.html