Ruff Guide to First Year, Cont.

Physiology

The difficult one. Actually, it's an interesting subject, pretty much how and why everything works. Some parts take a wee bit of understanding, but generally its not too bad. Cunningham's is the text I think and its quite useful as a reference, seeing as you pretty much need to know the whole book, but hey.
Practicals aren't too bad, much more similar to biochem in the fact that they are lab based, but you get to make hearts that have been taken out of animals beat and stuff. Way better than pipettes with stuff in them, but still, its just not "Lucky"

Animal Husbandry

You just don't know the joys of the seventy six and a half ways to feed a sheep just before lambing time until you experience the wonder that is one of Prof Fishwick's lectures!!! This subject encompasses everything from little furries right through to great hulking bulls (though I'm not entirely sure how a bull hulks), and how to essentially look after them. There's a little more to it than that like nutrition, genetics and ventilation rates (a truly truly gripping lecture) but it is probably the least taxing of all four subjects in first year.
The practicals in this subject too, are also legendary, and actually involve live animals, a rarity for first year. You'll all be packed into a coach and driven off to the farm at Cochno, to practice turning a sheep the Fishwick way, play with smoke bombs and pull dead lambs out of large metal "sheep" containing lukewarm water. Not all at once of course, unless you're seriously talented!!!