Tag: med school

passing by

It’s hard to believe how fast time is flying by here… I haven’t actually even been in school for 4 months yet, but I would probably bet money that the amount of information I’ve been tested on/expected to learn and retain probably stacks higher than I am in terms of giant pages of text. (I’m …

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“the girl who knows everything”

It appears that if the class does really terribly on our tests, the GTAs get chewed out for our performance. I’m not sure how this makes sense, because honestly, they do nothing but help us. Without them, I’m pretty sure most people would have failed. If anything, I believe class performance could have been due …

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survival

“……..You don’t drink? How are you getting through med school?”

I don’t drink coffee either, or really much of anything with a substantial amount of caffeine in it. How am I getting through med school?

I’ve been thinking that maybe periodically consuming something with caffeine in it wouldn’t be such a terrible idea though. I’ve …

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med school prom

Just to warn you, this will be a super picture-heavy post because honestly, what do you do at prom other than dance and take pictures? :O

I refer to Grand Affair, otherwise known as a scholarship fundraiser for us starving medical students, as med school prom because that’s basically what it is. Originally, I wasn’t …

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ticklish

I’ve been looking forward to the getting into the cervical vertebrae  manipulations in OPP because my neck is all sorts of messed up. (See here for x-rays of my spine. :O I managed to eff over both secondary curvatures.) I’m sure it’s gotten a whole lot better since 2005, but …

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