Sneaking into Dissections

Histology was cancelled yesterday due to the Czech holiday celebration but our fantastic histology professor MUDr. Becker booked us a complementary lecture today to make up for it.
We went through the connective tissues and were introduced to a couple of new tissue specimen slides which was good, even thou we couldn't examine them ourselves due to the lack of microscopes in the temporary room.

The test our group's having next week is going to cover the basic techniques of histology, histochemistry as well as epithelial tissues. The facts about epithelial tissue is not a lot deeper than of the knowledge I enquired at the PreMed but I'm still going to expect a hard test.
The good thing about Becker is that he seems very straight forward and gives us clear directions of what to study. It kind of reminds me of some of the tutors at the medical centre of the military, which I really like.

After the lecture me and two of my colleagues and friends, Solveig and Basu, ended up at the benches next to the steep stairs behind the Institute of Pathology (the stairs are supposed to be a "short-cut" to the upper campus but honestly they're just leg killers, especially with a bag full of books).
We sat down in the lovely autumn weather to revise some anatomy.
I've been breaking down the anatomy of the muscles pretty good by now and are halfway through the superior limb.
In the end thou, this is what we've to know, and a bit more to it:

You get a mentally exhausted just by looking at this atlas page but don't worry mates, there's more pages explaining it all in detail.

I've been practising some muscle insertion by drawing them all over the bones. Drawing is a lot of fun, haven't done that since high school, and I find first studying the atlas thoroughly and then label the parts while drawing to be a very good way of learning.

My friend and colleague Dimitris from my group had a really nice booklet from his previous education back in Boston. It's summarizing the muscles and it's different fact in a very good way but since I don't have the booklet myself I thought that I'd still use the idea and started working on this table:

It's a good way to quickly practising the different muscles and there origin, insertion, function and innervation.
I have to finish it by tomorrow because tomorrow we're going to have a study session where we'll test each others knowledge.

Due to the fact that we have a lot of things to do until next week I might skip the Halloween celebration completely. It's such a hassle getting a proper costume and I bet I'll just feel like it's a waste of revising time, after all, scoring high on the test is more important at the moment - at least that's how I feel.

So back to the original story about sneaking into dissections.
After our short study break by the stairs we went down to the anatomy building because we had been informed that open dissections would be held between 1 and 3 pm. Open dissection basically means that you can go to the dissection rooms and study the specimens by yourself.
So, we went to the locker room and changed into lab coats and slippers and went in to the big dissection room. It was all empty, but we didn't think about that since we were just eager to start. We began to uncover the plastic covering the limbs, found a good sample and began orientating ourselves - labelling muscles, nerves and tendons.
Two persons, obviously responsible for the dissections, were running around with a trolley, collecting specimens but we didn't mind them, all of us focused on our practising. All of a sudden they swished by with the trolley and picked up our specimen. They said that they were closing down which surprised us since the clock wasn't 3 pm yet.
We had to pick up our things and leave and then we realised that we were there the wrong time. Obviously there was some kind of misunderstanding - we didn't mind that, we got to practice for forty minutes, and neither did the persons working there - win win situation.

Next week we'll be on time thou, even if it means that it's going to be crowded with students - you don't want to miss an opportunity to practice outside the books on the real thing.

Now I'll have to hit the gym, "gotta stay FTD"...