I had my last lab practical of the semester in Anatomy this morning. I sat at one particular station (for my allotted 90 seconds, of course), and after quickly answering, found myself staring at the model, its Voodoo pins sticking out like needles on a pine branch.

The model was a median section of the head and neck, meaning that it was sliced straight down the middle. On one side, skin, eyes and a nose, mouth and ears...the usual. On the other side, all the good stuff - all the guts, so to speak.

I stared at that model, and after a few seconds, realized that I was able to accurately identify all of the structures on that head model. No longer were these weird, arbitrarily-placed clumps of colour. I do believe that I learned a lot this semester.

Speaking of anatomy models, there seems to be a lucrative market for creating anatomically corect anatomy models. Sounds odd, right? Shouldn't an anatomical model be...ANATOMICALLY CORRECT?! Theoretically, yes. However, without fail, almost every lab this semester, my professor began with a warning to the class to avoid using a certain model due to this-or-that "mistake", or to disregard superfluous structures (on one torso model, that costs a cool $7K, there are three left carotid arteries! [there should only be two on the left, and two on the right - an internal, and external, before they join to become the left and right common carotid arteries...OH THE SHAME!!!...and I thought the weatherman was the only person who could perform so poorly at his job without any ramifications!])
AND IT COSTS SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS!!!

All of this is just to say that if this whole nursing gig doesn't pan out, I know what business I'm going in to!