Remember in high school when you went to seven or eight different classes every day? None of your classes had anything to do with each other except maybe calculus lining up with your physics class for a brief period of time. Those were the days. Gym, English, Math, Science, History, and a coupe of electives. I miss that so much that it isn’t even funny.
Let me explain. The classes that I have taken so far include General Chemistry 1 and 2, Physics, Anatomy, Biology, Calculus, Psychology, and Critical Thinking and Writing. Except for Critical Thinking and Writing, every single class has related to a different class. Lets start at Calculus. In Calc, we learned to take derivatives. That linked to Physics where we are shown how to derive different equations to help us understand where some of our equations come from. In Physics we connected to General Chemistry when we talked about gas and pressure laws and briefly when we talked about electricity. We connected Physics also to Anatomy and Biology when it comes to the depolarization in neurons. Anatomy is a continuation of Biology that is focused on the human body, so there is a lot of overlap. Anatomy related to Psychology when we talked about different neurotransmitters and what they effect. Anatomy taught us the areas of the brain and Psychology taught us what was happening in those areas. Technically, if you squinted your eyes and hallucinated a bit, you could say that Psychology related to Critical Thinking and Writing because you have to anticipate what a counter argument would be to your thesis. You could also connect Psychology to every single class and say that you need to Psychoanalyze all of your teachers to figure out how to get exams pushed back, write a paper in a way the teacher likes it and gives you a better grade, and persuade the teacher to push back exams to help avoid terrible hell-weeks.
There is a reason for this, and there is a reason for me ranting about it. The reason they all connect is because they all connect in ways that are useful in the Pharmacy field. Every class has had some sort of a connection to pharmacy that cannot be ignored. Calculus taught us how to monitor the amount of a drug in the bloodstream. Biology gave us a brief insight of how a few different drugs worked. Anatomy is preparing us for general hospital work. Psychology is teaching us how to come up with plans to help patients take their medication regularly. Chemistry is just giving us a basis for later courses, so it is more indirect, but it will be helpful in the future. But we all know that feeling that we get when there isn’t a lot of variety in our lives. But that is the end of my rant. Everyone enjoy your weekend!
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