End of Week One

Today marks the end of week one in dental school. It has been a long week with many hours spent at the anatomy lab. We have our first exam coming up tomorrow and it should be real interesting to find out the testing style of our professor. From what I have heard from the upperclassmen is that it is going to be difficult and grueling. He scores our exams with a negative marking system where you are penalized with negative points for the wrong answer. The amount of material that is covered on this exam after only one week is staggering compared to what could be expected from undergraduate. Besides totally immersing myself in my classes, OHSU hosted a night at OMSI for all of the new students. We got to see the Body Worlds 3 exhibit on Friday night. After the museum, some of my classmates and I went to the bars in downtown Portland for a few drinks. Before my exam tomorrow I have my CPR certification class so I will not have much time to study unlike 2/3rds of my class who don't have CPR cert tomorrow. We'll see how tomorrow goes.