
LubDub. LubDub. LubDub. These are the sounds of the
heart. On average, a human heart beats about 3 billion
times. It sends blood to the lungs which comes back to the
heart to supply oxygenated blood to the brain and the rest of the
body. The brain, like the heart, works every single day,
every single minute. It keeps the heart beating, it keeps the
rest of the body working. It allows you to feel pain, love,
fear, the pressure of the pen in your hand and the keys on your
computer. Through an entire lifetime the brain never stops
working.... until I'm in the middle of an exam. I can try and
try to get the answers that I have studied for hours to surface,
but for some reason, they refuse. This is an issue that many
of us in biomedical sciences feel. We learn the information,
we hear it, we can repeat it and even teach it to others, but the
moment we step into that classroom, sit in our seats...
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