If I'm completely honest with you, I wouldn't do that. For the past seven weeks now, the lectures have mainly been about bridging this gap between those medical students who have completed Biology A-Level, and those medical students that hadn't. In a "put your hand up" kind of situation in one of the biology lectures, I would say around 60% of medical students at my uni have got a Biology A-Level. Therefore, this beginning unit has concentrated on making sure everyone is aware of the same biological processes that occur in the human body.
Respiration, genetics, cell organelles - all of that, you don't need to go over necessarily prior to joining university. Obviously do it for your own knowledge and understanding, but it's not a necessity as you will cover it in those initial lectures. I'm all mitochondria-ed out now!
It's also my final time in the anatomy lab for this year which I am quite gutted about. I really did enjoy learning about anatomy through the use of prosected cadavers. I would recommend that before you enter the lab, I would take along any clinical diagrams or anatomy labelled images that would aid your learning in the lab. For example, whilst learning the digestive tract it helped to take in a diagram of the gastrointestinal system to work out the distribution of different organs. It's crucial to say that the organs do not appear exactly in the same way as they do in diagrams, so it does make it harder to identify. But sometimes, learning the function of an organ can help moreso than learning its actual anatomy and actual location in the body.
You also need to ensure you get your lefts and rights the right way round! Remember, it's THEIR body and not your way of perceiving, so the heart is on the LEFT side of the body, despite it would be your "right" as you're viewing them! This took me forever to grasp.
And back to the social side of university...the nights out are amazing. I would definitely recommend you do make an attempt to go out because you will have the opportunity to widen your friendship circle and develop many strong relationships. Obviously the last main night out was Halloween which was cheap on a students' night, but I made the mistake of plastering myself in facepaint that I did struggle to remove despite all of the soaps I used in the shower. It did mean I did turn up to my lecture with a green neck, that thankfully only lasted the day!
