Tag: pre-clinical years

going down swinging

Going Down Swinging

M: Can you describe lymphoplasmacytic sclerosing pancreatitis and its significance? F: (cross between maniacal laughter and sobbing) M: Are you laughing or crying? F: A little of both. F: Yep, I think so. M: Do you want to listen to “No Easy Way Out” or “We’re Going Down Swinging”? F: “We’re Going Down Swinging.” At …

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treat swap

Last month, I decided to steal borrow the idea of the Food Blogger Cookie Swap and do a treat swap within my school. :D Since I happen to love food, and food fundraisers tend to go pretty well here because we’re all starving students, I figured it’d work out …

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thanksgiving at school

So this is a late post, but…oh well. :O Better late than never.

It’s been a while since I’ve been able to spend Thanksgiving with my family, unless you count the fact that two years ago, I had a med school interview in socal the weekend before and they drove down …

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site selection

Well, that was a rather trying time.

If I’ve never mentioned the process behind how we get our base sites for third year, it’s a pretty simple process, and is basically equally unfair to everyone. There are a certain number of spots open at each base site. If the amount of people that want to …

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leave it up to fate

I would very much appreciate good thoughts/prayers for tomorrow. :[ I find out where I’m going to be spending my next year (as well as who I’ll get to spend it with). As someone in my class put it, it’s like my school’s own version of The Hunger Games. May the odds be ever in …

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