Gross Anatomy Museum

It's the first day of class for summer session. This is also the first time I feel so relaxed in class. I am so excited about the materials I am going to learn. Besides the time the prof talked about the course outline, I didn't get bored at all. After class, we went for a respective tutorial session. My TA's name is Neil. This is exactly my honey gourami's name, named by nomis. He took us the the Gross Anatomy Museum at the basement of MSB. I didn't expect anything at the beginning. Then I went into the room, I was like, you called that a museum??? The room is so small. You know museum is supposed to be huge with lots of specimens.

Then I walked to the first aisle. "Wow" was the last word I said as I recalled. I don't remember me closing my mouth, or blinking my eyes at all. The first thing I saw was the network of blood vessels in liver, coloured in latex. Liver is made up of networks of blood vessels, hepatic artery, hepatic vein and most imiportantly the hepatic portal vein. And there are small arteries and veins branched off from the hepatic vessels. The specimen was neatly displayed. The main vessels as well as some of the small branches were completely isolated from the tissue. It was just amazing. When I turned around, there were different parts of the brain, white and pale. They were nicely preserved. After that I went through most of the bones, muscles and internal organs. When I walked to a specimen for the upper body, I held my breathe. I felt very very excited inside but at the same time, I felt really sorry for those people who sacrificed their body to science. I had that feeling because I saw half of the face of the upper body specimen.

Overall, this was absolutely a, wow, astonishing experience for me. I have dissected fish, shark, bull's eye, pig heart, mouse and cat. I have never seen a human specimen before. I totally repect those specimens, cherish them and learn from them so to make worthy of their sacrifice.