First Post

This journal was a year in the making, as my first experience with the cadavers at San Diego Miramar College was in January of 2008. I wrote about my experiences with the cadavers in my LiveJournal account, but they get lost in the mundane updates of my "regular" life.

I will repost everything here from my LJ for posterity, and then update this with new experiences as the year unfolds. I am enrolled in Biology 232, otherwise known as Experience in Human Dissection at San Diego Miramar College, under the tutelage of Dr. Kevin Petti, Ph.D.

Kevin, whom I refer to as Dr. Petti in the classroom (in class I prefer a strict teacher-student rapport), is a fantastic professor of Human Anatomy. His passion for the subject, as well as his deep knowledge and empathy for the wonder known as the human body never ceases to amaze me. I would not want to tackle this stressful of a class under any other mentor.

This journal is my way of reminding myself why I gave up a promising and financially secure career in the computer industry in a fit of a mid-life crisis and went back to health care.

This is my discovery of the human body in a way that 95% or more of the general populace will never have a chance to experience.