Schools Dinner

Hi,

I've passed my first clinical anatomy assessment, and anatomy is even starting to be quite enjoyable as we get to know the people in our groups better and realise that we might as well have fun if we're going to be stuck in the dissection room while our other finalist friends are out in the parks. There's nothing quite like living anatomy classes, where we poke and prod each other, to help a group bond! Fortunately, my group seem to be fairly sensible as well as fun, unlike one boy in the group that has living anatomy before me, who insisted on taking his trousers off for a class that only involved looking at the lower half of the leg and then refused to put them back on again before going to dissection.

Last night I had my Schools Dinner, where the finalists doing a particular subject in a college have a meal with their tutors (so that's the 8 medics in my year in Brasenose and our 3 main tutors). It was a fantastic night, and we were all particularly excited to be allowed on the Old Quad which is normally out of bounds to students. After numerous courses we played bowls on the quad with progressively drunker and drunker tutors and progressively less and less accuracy. By 2am one tutor, who also happens to be the dean and therefore in charge of discipline in college, was making enough noise to be deaned himself, and had provided several great photo opportunities.

Now I've got the weekend pretty much free (apart from a bit of preparation for Monday) before we start on heart and lungs in anatomy. I wonder whether anyone will insist on going into the dissection room topless this time.