Anyone in MCB 136?

MechRocket
Fri, 22 Apr 2011 04:36:04 +0000

ugh, this class was hell for me because for some reason, i didn’t feel like studying for the 2nd midterm until the day before the test. true story, i went 16 hours straight without food or sleep trying to cram a month worth of lectures into that one night. ended up with a C+ on that test. good times. pulled out an A only cuz i studied ****loads for the final to make up for it.

i assume you’ll be taking it with bautista, machen, and crothers.

first part of the course is neurons, action potentials, that kind of stuff. really easy. the concepts can actually get quite complicated but bautista gives you creampuff questions that just tests basic concepts. the average was very high. everyone did well even if no one studied.

second part of the course is cardiovascular & respiratory stuff, muscles, that stuff. this requires more work than the first part of the course because you have to memorize a lot more details and there’s also quite a few pathways you have to remember (i.e. steps that go into activating skeletal or smooth muscles). however, it’s pretty straight-forward if you just put in the work. machen’s test was pretty fair, no tricky questions.

third part of the course is kidneys, GI tract, errrrr can’t remember lol. there’s some other stuff though. anyways, crother’s test is just dumb. the material itself isn’t so bad other than the kidney stuff, which is really complicated (i still don’t get *** is going on down there, lulz). but anyways, crothers will test on excruciatingly miniscule details from his slides. it’s really ridiculous. these are things that are more like random facts than concepts. you have to know EVERYTHING he talks about for his part of the course. if you don’t have a recorder, buy it, lol. every single thing that is on the slides is fair game.

all in all, this is just one of those classes where if you put the work in, you’ll do well. most of the concepts are easy to grasp. i learned a lot, probably a really useful class for med school.