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Date: 15 July 2007 00:20:20
So my combined mid-year break and stuvac is drawing to a close. Oh my we will all go back to university refreshed and relaxed and ready for more learning! Or not. Dear person who decided to put this exam on the first day back: bad idea. Really.
Today I have two things on my agenda. The basal ganglia and the stupid articles about how kids eat too many doughnuts and it's society's fault and stuff like that (which is important and all, it's more the exam question that will be on the topic is likely to be fairly vague or obscure or otherwise weird). The basal ganglia are spinning me out a bit. I was very excited when I arrived at chapter 16 in my textbook last night because I'd been looking forward to the basal ganglia. I thought that once I'd read that chapter, everything would fall into place. Well some things definitely have. Other things are just a bit too confusing. The basal ganglia are deep in the white matter of the cerebral hemispheres. The substantia nigra is one of them. But it's in the midbrain, which is a part of the brainstem. Yet it's also counted as being in the hemispheres. Or something. I haven't really finished reading because it was late and I thought such things could be left until morning.
So that is what I am going to do now.