Tri-3, Wk1, Day 132

First off, best wishes to Grayson Guyer from High Point, NC who will be starting at Logan in January in the ASP program!

Grayson, you'll want to check out this site I put together at http://loganstudents.webgarden.com/

It has links to all the Google Groups I've been putting together with old test, notes and all kinds of resources to help you succeed at Logan. For that matter, any chiro student is welcome to any info I have that might be helpful.

Be sure to send me an email (or blog comment) when you get to Logan. I currently have 12.6GB worth of resources ...over 23,000 files ranging from Tri-1 to Tri-9 as well as material for electives & National Boards.

As intimidated as I was about this Tri-3 semester, things were pretty fun today. No shortage of laughing in many of the classes.

btw - I might also recommend www.FlashMyBrain.com which is yet another Flashcard program I've downloaded and paid for (only about $30) but you can play games and quizzes with your flashcards and the program only gives you so many cards at a time (you decide how many) and when you score high enough on a game, then you can add more cards.

I think Dr. Filson may have been wearing his St. Louis Cardinals World Series ring today. For those who don't know, Dr. Filson was the Cardinals chiropractor the year they won the world series and *everyone* involved with the organization got one of those championship rings. I sit back in the third row, to the side and the ring still looked absolutely HUGE!

The #1 chiropractic technique is one called Diversified and Logan Basic (invented by the founder of Logan) is the 13th most used technique which is pretty good considering there are well over 100 techniques. Most of the other techniques seem to stem off some of these previously mentioned foundation techniques. I learned the activator method is an extension of the basic method but you use a tool w/ the activator method. The creator of the activator method was also a graduate of Logan.

Logan offers around 15 or so techniques which compares quite favorably to many other schools.

Anyway - I've got flashcards made up for Microbiology for 7 antiviral agents and 21 different diseases I need to know for our first test.

Physiology was pretty good today. Dr Iggy is probably one of the best teachers you can find anywhere. Ignatov is his actual name (I think) He's from Russia. Our Microbiology teacher is from India. One of the ASP teachers is from Iran - he moved here when he was 17 ...how does somebody do that?! Only 17 and he moved solo to the US ...non-the-less, he is a *very* brilliant individual.

We started out with two hours of philosophy and that name philosophy is almost a bit misleading. The full name is Philosophy & Principles and much of what we learn deals with the principles behind chiropractic and quite a bit of the science behind chiropractic. It was nice to learn that our Tri-3 philosophy teacher is also one of the teachers who writes questions for the National Boards exams, as well as Dr. Gutweiler who writes questions for the biochemistry exams.

Today's pic is of the home state of our upcoming doctor, Dr. Grayson Guyer! :)