Life by PJ

It's rare that you would find me putting off homework, but that is exactly what I'm doing at this moment in time. (Believe me, physics can wait.) Besides the fact that I've had this awful cough for the past week, I've been having a blast! We're starting to feel like real dental students now (I have delusions of grandeur, alright?) On Monday we visited the Cleveland Clinic which is one of the top clinics in the country. They talked to us about the Cleveland Clinic college track at CWRU's medical school, which is this unique education track that involves having an extra year of med-school dedicated to research. The clinic was basically the size of an airport, and it was pretty neat to check out.  Tuesday night we got to visit with some medical students as we celebrated the birthdays of all the SMDEP students who were born in the summer. The funniest part of the whole thing was that there were two cakes for everyone to eat: a huge carrot cake, and a chocolat

Much to my surprise, Cleveland, Ohio is shaping up to be quite an exciting town. (And no, I'm not just talking about the occasional homeless person on the street asking for donuts.) I've had a jam-packed week full of lectures, clinicals, and as the title alludes to, enormous desserts.  Monday was our first dental anatomy class, which basically had me geeking out the entire time. Most pre-dents don't have the opportunity to learn about the teeth until at least their first year of dental school, so this was a great opportunity. Plus, our teacher is a hysterically funny pediatric dentist who keeps us entertained with her stories of working in a Cleveland dental clinic. (You could imagine what that must be like.) On Tuesday I had the opportunity to shadow a CWRU Oral Surgery resident. Upon entering the room, my fellow student and I witnessed a man going at some woman's jaw with an enormous drill - appropriate bodily fluids flying everywhere and all. "Morning ladies!

I've been at Case Western for a week now for the Summer Medical and Dental Education Program and I don't even know how I'm going to write down everything that's happened since only last Saturday. Long story short, it's been crazy. Us in front of the school sign - ignore the thumb Let's break down the academic stuff first, since that's why we're all here. Monday we got to listen to the dean of the dental school, Dr. Goldberg, which was super exciting, (at least for us pre-dental students. There's 20 out of 80 of us - the rest being pre-med.) After the dean spoke to us we had to take multiple pre-tests to determine what level we were at in a variety of different subjects. Most of them went pretty well - until the math test. Considering I haven't taken a math class since my junior year of high school, it's safe to say that my math skills are...rusty. So when I looked at the test and realized that I could only answer one out of 30 math ques