Medicine 2012...(hopeful entrants) !!

Well this weeks PBL is about sickle cell disease and a few complications about it.. this is one of our learning objectives:

Outline the social issues and health care attitudes involved with relation to Daniel’s case.

Can't even be bothered to start on that point...

That must be horrible I can't even understand them separately

That's painfully boring, how often do you have to do that? See this is where I just procrastinate instead of actually doing it

its really bad. i have no idea what goes on in certain processes, how on earth am i meant to revise this when im confused just learning it?

Weekly

Not long until twice weekly..

Could be worse

Procrastination ftw

I quite like ecology. The stats/sampling stuff is dull as, but the stuff that relates to evolution/survival of the fittest is really interesting imo. And we watch videos of cute animals, and David Attenborough docus. (you've gotta love him).

I'm really, really glad that I'm not the only that finds resp/photosynthesis hard. Was fearing I wouldn't be able to survive a medical degree with my abysmal biochemical skills.

I quite like ecology. The stats/sampling stuff is dull as, but the stuff that relates to evolution/survival of the fittest is really interesting imo. And we watch videos of cute animals, and David Attenborough docus. (you've gotta love him).

I'm really, really glad that I'm not the only that finds resp/photosynthesis hard. Was fearing I wouldn't be able to survive a medical degree with my abysmal biochemical skills.

I quite like ecology. The stats/sampling stuff is dull as, but the stuff that relates to evolution/survival of the fittest is really interesting imo. And we watch videos of cute animals, and David Attenborough docus. (you've gotta love him).

I'm really, really glad that I'm not the only that finds resp/photosynthesis hard. Was fearing I wouldn't be able to survive a medical degree with my abysmal biochemical skills.

wierdoooo

although i must admit looking at cute animals and david attenborough documentaries is quite fun

If in doubt just say NAD and you will be fine

Are you normal? I guess you and my bio teacher will get along and yeah I always thought resp/phososynthesis was great and easy peasy at gcse, though I didn't understand why some things happened the way they did. But now..

Haha, it is. My Bio teacher is an animal lover and she has guinea pigs/fish/snails in the classroom, they're too cute! I liked the plant things last year as well... plants look so boring but they're actually really complex and the fact hardly anyone knows that means we're in like... a plants-are-cool gang.

How's half term been for you?

True, but they could give you an interview assuming that it's true, and if the scores don't match up when they get the results, you'll be in trouble for lying on your application. Although it's very easy to lie about your UKCAT score, it shouldn't be any different in terms of punishment to lying about GCSEs or A levels. Kings have already given out several interviews and they use UKCAT quite significantly.

Oh, King's have just offered interviews to people with 10 A*s plus as I guess it doesn't matter so much if they have a sucky UKCAT.

Totally, we would unite over a documentary on climax communities, yay.

GCSE is so misleading! I guess at least now you know why things happen, and it is stuff that you'll need for your medical degree (unfortunately ).

I really liked the menstrual cycle at GCSE but I can just tell that it's going to be obscenely hard when we do it in unit 5.

we had stick insects and wood lice in ours, theyre not so cute and cuddly

plants are not cool, they are horrendously coma-inducingly boring

you do the menstrual cycle! would it be wierd if i said i was jealous?

half term's been decent, its my first holiday where i havent been on work experience/hardcore revising since the year 11 summer holiday, so it was nice to have a break. that said, i've been having a few health hiccups so i spent much of it lying down

you?

Lol

And it is misleading! They lie to you lots

So did I! I actually can't wait for the menstrual cycle in unit 5 but yeah it's going to be hard (trying not to think about that haha)

Yeah, insects are just icky. You should totally get your Bio teacher to get a class pet turtle! That would liven up Bio lessons.

Haha, I think I've got a major case of Stockholm's with the Biology syllabus in general. I bet one thing we'll agree on was that the immune system was really interesting! Oh, unit 1. It sucks how they had the most interesting stuff in unit 1 (at least for AQA) when we're dealing with the GCSE -> AS step up so we don't enjoy it (when I say "we", I mean "I", the first half of year 12 was horrendous lol).

It's not weird at all, otherwise we wouldn't all be applying for med degrees! We do it in the next unit along with things like homeostasis and nerve signals, I'm buzzing.

Awww, bless you, you seem like you've worked really hard for it, I hope you get a place. I hope we all get a place. They should open a medical school for everyone on this thread because we're clearly mint

That sucks! Sods law, as soon as you get a break, you get ill. You feeling better?

Mine was good, I spent a couple of days at the library trying to catch up with work () but the rest of it was nice and relaxing... I went bowling with my sisters (who are 5 and 10), I literally did my best but both my sisters beat me. The five year old came first... in both games. Lol.

I was so happy when we finished ecology. Except a week later we went on to Speciation, which wasn't much better

we've just finished the kidney, the pancreas and the liver, so we basically have no animal/human biology until after christmas. bad times