Thursday, September 25, 2008

The wonders of graduate school

I think of the best parts of medical school so far has been being able to see how so many things a related to each other. No longer are the days where one could view school as an assortment of individual, unrelated classes. For example, today in Immunology/Microbiology, the professor played this song to help us remember the sugar-loving nature of lectins (or sugar binding molecules/receptors) on cells.

The class before, we had just talked about glycolysis in Biochemistry, which also involves sugars. Later, as I was reviewing over the lecture from Biochem, this song came to mind:

Not to be outdone, our Histology professor tried to turn the auditorium into a dance floor by turning off the lights, demanding that the class come down to the front of the room while using the sound system to blare the following:

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