Creating a pelvic Model

Well, I never thought I'd say it. But this weekend I made a paper pelvic model. Complete with female genitalia, perineal musculature and a twisty tie to secure it all.

Now really.

If we're paying $700 for a class shouldn't the professor be providing us with a cadaver model? Why do I have to make one myself out of paper and glue? This isn't an arts and craft class. I'm not taking a freaking ceramics class. I'm taking HUMAN ANATOMY.

I want to look at dead bodies to learn the structures. Not a freaking paper pelvis. This stupid project took me THREE hours to make!! Did I learn anything? NO. It was a test on following directions, not actual anatomy.

This is why I'm an ESS major and not a art major. I hate making things. I will never be crafty and never want to be crafty. My talents for arts and crafts is pretty much limited to putting photos in the album. (NOT scrapbooking.) That is why when I got done my pelvic model looked more like a crooked colonial hat than it did a female pelvis. (At least we didn't have to make a male pelvis.) Justin's looked nicer than mine.

I just needed to vent about that. Professors should really think it through when they're creating lesson plans. Does a paper pelvic model help students? Or does looking at a cadaver with the ACTUAL features help?

I felt like I did in elementary school. I was never good at coloring or cutting or pasting. This time I even cut my finger and got blood all over the iliac crest and pubic symphysis.