Gotta love brains..

..or not.

We've reached that stage in second year medicine where the budding surgeons can hardly contain their excitement.. but many more of us are shaking in our boots because we've just hit the neuroscience part of our course.

If you thought the brain was just a blobby, jelly like thing - think again.. there are names for all the pokey spaces, wiggly lines and cells that make up a brain.. names that I don't think I'll ever get my head around. Its hard to fathom how one bit of grey brain has a completely different job to the grey bit of brain next to it. Sadly this is exactly what the next six weeks of my life will be spent finding out!

We are two days in. I turned up with some enthusiasm - 'its the brain right? There must be lots of interesting things to learn about that'. I can feel that same enthusiasm slipping away rather quickly.. hopefully Amazon will be my friend and when my two shiny new neuroscience textbooks arrive my excitement will be 'rekindled'...

I can live in hope!

Jenn