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la_belle_laideThis was from yesterday:
Today I went for my college orientation. I thought I would be nervous, but instead I felt totally at ease, thinking that only good could come of any or it. I didn't even have to convince myself; it was just there.
They didn't tell me anything I didn't already know about college. Rules of conduct, who to talk to about certain questions, use of lockers, where everything was, and junk like that. But there were some unspoken surprises.
For instance, when I was reading the book about this particular college, I found out things that I should have thought of on my own but that hadn't yet occurred to me, such as that we're not allowed to go to classes if we're sick. I know in most colleges you just stay home if you're really sick, or out of courtesy if you're contagious, but then this is a medical college. You really can't go if you're sick, because you are going to be in the clinic and working with people who are already compromised. I have to keep my nails really short; I had figured on that, but I didn't know it would be an official rule. Classes on "nudity conduct" are mandatory, which I hadn't even thought of. Yeah, patients are going to be naked and just draped some of the time.
Another surprise was how many people of my age or even older were there. However, only two of us in the whole thing were there for acupuncture and Oriental medicine. The rest (about twenty on this day - there are more, but there are other orientations they can go to before january,) were all massage therapy students. Only two of us doing medicine and starting in january. I guess I can count on small classes, anyway. O_o
Also, oh my gosh! So many cute and interesting men! WTF! I swear I saw Jay Baruchel, Andrew Volpe and Terrence Howard. No, seriously, there is a guy there around my age who looks like Terrence Howard. And he even came to talk to me. I was like, :-O And then there was this one guy walking around looking like someone out of a Douglas Adams book; that's really the only physical description I can come up with for him. Kind of like a paranoid crane at first glance, sort of tall and feathery, but kind of looking around like he was trying to hide from ninjas or something. He didn't look at all approachable, and finally he sat down in a chair with his coffee between his knees, damn near tucking his head under his wing at the same time. I was like, "Who the hell is this guy?" But then they introduced him as the manager of the book store, and and he got up he sort of got stuck on his chair and he grinned a little and then did his shy little speech and I was like "AWWWW!" After that he was seriously cute. Weird people intrigue the hell out of me.
I went to the book store (to buy my books--honestly!) and he helped me out a lot. I asked him his name (even though I remembered it from when they introduced him) and he told me "Greer" and I said, "that is such a fantastic name" and he was like, "Yeah, kind of." ^_^
MY BOOKS WERE CLOSE TO SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS. Fortunately he explained to me that the biggest and most expensive ones were ones that I would use throughout all of the courses, and then even afterwards during any medical career. (They are the ones you see on bookshelves, you know, when you go to see doctors and stuff.) So the good thing is that I won't have to buy expensive books like this again.
But aside from the money, the books themselves are, I admit, daunting. I still have my old college medical books, and though they are thorough and they helped me a lot the first time around, they are nothing like these ones. These books are, well they are real doctor books. I turned to a random page in a few of them and read some of it and realized that I only had the vaguest of ideas on what they were talking about, (especially the chemistry one,) and I realized what a neophyte I am with all of this stuff and I found myself wondering, "How will I ever get this far?" Yes, it is a little daunting! I mean, wtf am I doing with over six hundred dollars worth of medical books? WTF? WTMFF? Looking at them, I felt as nervous as a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.
But, at least I have them a little early and I can start looking through them now, and maybe get a jump on some of the early stuff. Right?
Yeah! For sure! ^_^
Umm, and actually, this was also from last night:
Technology that can show you what others think.
TOKYO (AFP) – A Japanese research team has revealed it had created a technology that could eventually display on a computer screen what people have on their minds, such as dreams.
Researchers at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories succeeded in processing and displaying images directly from the human brain, they said in a study unveiled ahead of publication in the US magazine Neuron.
While the team for now has managed to reproduce only simple images from the brain, they said the technology could eventually be used to figure out dreams and other secrets inside people's minds.
"It was the first time in the world that it was possible to visualise what people see directly from the brain activity," the private institute said in a statement.
"By applying this technology, it may become possible to record and replay subjective images that people perceive like dreams."
When people look at an object, the eye's retina recognises an image that is converted into electrical signals which go into the brain's visual cortex.
The team, led by chief researcher Yukiyasu Kamitani, succeeded in catching the signals and then reconstructing what people see.
In their experiment, the researchers showed people the six letters in the word "neuron" and then succeeded in reconstructing the letters on a computer screen by measuring their brain activity.
The team said that it first figured out people's individual brain patterns by showing them some 400 different still images.
Like in Brainstorm with Christopher Walken! But I've always maintained that if this technologly ever existed, and if they ever perfect it, the human race will use it primarily for one thing: PORN.
Today I went for my college orientation. I thought I would be nervous, but instead I felt totally at ease, thinking that only good could come of any or it. I didn't even have to convince myself; it was just there.
They didn't tell me anything I didn't already know about college. Rules of conduct, who to talk to about certain questions, use of lockers, where everything was, and junk like that. But there were some unspoken surprises.
For instance, when I was reading the book about this particular college, I found out things that I should have thought of on my own but that hadn't yet occurred to me, such as that we're not allowed to go to classes if we're sick. I know in most colleges you just stay home if you're really sick, or out of courtesy if you're contagious, but then this is a medical college. You really can't go if you're sick, because you are going to be in the clinic and working with people who are already compromised. I have to keep my nails really short; I had figured on that, but I didn't know it would be an official rule. Classes on "nudity conduct" are mandatory, which I hadn't even thought of. Yeah, patients are going to be naked and just draped some of the time.
Another surprise was how many people of my age or even older were there. However, only two of us in the whole thing were there for acupuncture and Oriental medicine. The rest (about twenty on this day - there are more, but there are other orientations they can go to before january,) were all massage therapy students. Only two of us doing medicine and starting in january. I guess I can count on small classes, anyway. O_o
Also, oh my gosh! So many cute and interesting men! WTF! I swear I saw Jay Baruchel, Andrew Volpe and Terrence Howard. No, seriously, there is a guy there around my age who looks like Terrence Howard. And he even came to talk to me. I was like, :-O And then there was this one guy walking around looking like someone out of a Douglas Adams book; that's really the only physical description I can come up with for him. Kind of like a paranoid crane at first glance, sort of tall and feathery, but kind of looking around like he was trying to hide from ninjas or something. He didn't look at all approachable, and finally he sat down in a chair with his coffee between his knees, damn near tucking his head under his wing at the same time. I was like, "Who the hell is this guy?" But then they introduced him as the manager of the book store, and and he got up he sort of got stuck on his chair and he grinned a little and then did his shy little speech and I was like "AWWWW!" After that he was seriously cute. Weird people intrigue the hell out of me.
I went to the book store (to buy my books--honestly!) and he helped me out a lot. I asked him his name (even though I remembered it from when they introduced him) and he told me "Greer" and I said, "that is such a fantastic name" and he was like, "Yeah, kind of." ^_^
MY BOOKS WERE CLOSE TO SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS. Fortunately he explained to me that the biggest and most expensive ones were ones that I would use throughout all of the courses, and then even afterwards during any medical career. (They are the ones you see on bookshelves, you know, when you go to see doctors and stuff.) So the good thing is that I won't have to buy expensive books like this again.
But aside from the money, the books themselves are, I admit, daunting. I still have my old college medical books, and though they are thorough and they helped me a lot the first time around, they are nothing like these ones. These books are, well they are real doctor books. I turned to a random page in a few of them and read some of it and realized that I only had the vaguest of ideas on what they were talking about, (especially the chemistry one,) and I realized what a neophyte I am with all of this stuff and I found myself wondering, "How will I ever get this far?" Yes, it is a little daunting! I mean, wtf am I doing with over six hundred dollars worth of medical books? WTF? WTMFF? Looking at them, I felt as nervous as a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.
But, at least I have them a little early and I can start looking through them now, and maybe get a jump on some of the early stuff. Right?
Yeah! For sure! ^_^
Umm, and actually, this was also from last night:
Technology that can show you what others think.
TOKYO (AFP) – A Japanese research team has revealed it had created a technology that could eventually display on a computer screen what people have on their minds, such as dreams.
Researchers at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories succeeded in processing and displaying images directly from the human brain, they said in a study unveiled ahead of publication in the US magazine Neuron.
While the team for now has managed to reproduce only simple images from the brain, they said the technology could eventually be used to figure out dreams and other secrets inside people's minds.
"It was the first time in the world that it was possible to visualise what people see directly from the brain activity," the private institute said in a statement.
"By applying this technology, it may become possible to record and replay subjective images that people perceive like dreams."
When people look at an object, the eye's retina recognises an image that is converted into electrical signals which go into the brain's visual cortex.
The team, led by chief researcher Yukiyasu Kamitani, succeeded in catching the signals and then reconstructing what people see.
In their experiment, the researchers showed people the six letters in the word "neuron" and then succeeded in reconstructing the letters on a computer screen by measuring their brain activity.
The team said that it first figured out people's individual brain patterns by showing them some 400 different still images.
Like in Brainstorm with Christopher Walken! But I've always maintained that if this technologly ever existed, and if they ever perfect it, the human race will use it primarily for one thing: PORN.
