Start of 2nd year

Another post from Ryan:
So my 2nd year has begun and.... it's busy! We have 3 lab courses, which I love. Dentures is really time consuming and I've never much enjoyed working with dentures, but it's nice to be using my hands and some of the skills I picked up at the lab/Dr. Mirci's office. We have a continuation of our crown and bridge course from last year. I have really enjoyed it and did pretty well on my first bridge ever. Here is what it looked like:
The professor who was evaluating my preps is quite a stickler, so I was worried that he would be very hard on my work... so I kept working on it until I couldn't see anything at all that could be improved; then I had him evaluate it. He looked and only had a minor adjustment he wanted me to make and then he said it looked great when he looked again.

Our last lab course is starting amalgam fillings. This is really new for me, but I'm really loving it. It is really busy, though. The first day in class, our professor gave us 4 preps to do and 5 the next class. So far though, I'm keeping up, but it is taking all the time in class... and maybe a little more. Two Saturdays ago I spent 5 hours at school and last Saturday it was 8. That was not only for lab courses, but was also studying book work stuff too.

Here are some of my filling preps:So what do think? Y'all ready to let me drill on you? I know that Kristy is :)

This semester is busy didactically as well. We will have a lot of 3 week courses about different body systems... right now we are in the middle of the gastrointestinal system. All these courses are to prepare us for boards in December. I need to find time to study... it's tough with so much time spent in the lab.

However, I have found a little bit of time to play around:
Hope that at least made you chuckle:) I thought it was humorous. Man I am a dental nerd. I can't wait to be a dentist.