Yesterday's lecture was pretty neat: for the second half of it we got a tour into the lecturing professors' labs. There was this one microscope demo where we got to look at a fish embryo (which can live temporarily in jello -- well it's got a fancier name than that, but it's still, in essence, jello -- just fine) that has had all of its red blood cells labeled so that they glow in the dark (and the microscope room is a bit like a dark room). When you zoom in you can see the little glowing cells as they are pumped through the embryo's beating heart.
Way cool.
It's my opinion that our lecturers should do things like this more often, instead of setting us up for more rounds of problem-based-learning (which never fail to remind me unpleasantly of the physics 7 series at Davis). Speaking of which, I just sent in my nephrology homework (bye-bye Liddle's syndrome, I wash my hands of you) and so now I only have two more projects pending. If I'm very good I'll get both done on Saturday and wander off somewhere Sunday that involves no more reading of scientific articles.
Cheers.
I dreamed last night that everyone -- that is, to say, all the Lunatics -- was at Great America, at the funnel-cake place. Lucy wanted to go on the giant pirate ship and Anna wanted to buy a muffin. I was almost nostalgic when I woke up. Then I realized that it was only 6:30 (I will adjust, before April comes around, too) and decided to try to go back to sleep.
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Aw, remember waiting in line?
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