Fundamentals

It's been a week or two since I have updated.  We have now finished both our Ethics and Culture classes.  I would say a majority of the class got an A in both.  Last week we started our "Fundamentals I" class.  Essentially, we have two separate 1-hour lectures everyday until Christmas covering many of the basic sciences like Biochem, genetics, histology, and some basic physiology.  We have started with biochem and will cover about everything you would cover in an undergrad biochem class over the next 4 weeks.  We will have  a test every other week that covers about 20 lectures.  I am attempting to stay as caught up as possible and study 1-2 hours a day just for this class, but on a week like this one where we have 2 other tests, it is easy to get 8-10 lectures behind in no time.  Luckily, this 3-day weekend will give plenty of time to read up and study it all before the test next Thursday.  We started our communications class, and it is just pass/fail, so basically we just show up once a week and participate. In our pre-clinic class, we have started waxing premolars.... for the majority of the class with no waxing experience (myself included), it is incredibly tough.  Granted, each week it seems like all of our hand skills are improving, but all of the D3s and D4s assure us that a person's waxing skills have little bearing on how good they will be at the real procedures.