So, despite all the crap that happened last year, I managed to somehow end the year in the top half of my class, and was invited to participate in the “Honors in Research” program here at my school. Basically it’s a glorified research project that is available to the top half of students. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'M1'
Summer Time, and the Living’s (regrettably, not all that) Easy
July 30th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: drama queens · research · summer
I’m Back!
July 28th, 2009 1 Comment
First, I’d like to apologize to anyone reading this who may have hoped for and/or expected more posts from me over my first year. It was a crazy and hectic time in my life, unfortunately. Aside from being my first year of medical school, which can be dramatic enough in its own right, my personal [...]
Tags: apologies · explanations
Diabeetus, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Endocrinology
February 18th, 2009 3 Comments
The endocrinology test is rapidly approaching, and I’m starting to get a little light-headed from the amount of information I’m trying to shovel into my brain. Or maybe that’s just hypoglycemia from my insulin-secreting tumor. Or maybe it’s a headache from the hypertension secondary to my Conn’s Disease. (Or, maybe it’s just my med student [...]
Tags: diabeetus · diabetes · endocrinology · zombie wilfred brimley
Med Student Syndrome
February 15th, 2009 2 Comments
Last night I woke up around three in the morning. I was sweating, my heart was beating super fast, and my blood pressure was so high that it felt like blood might shoot out of my eyes at any second.
Since we’re in the middle of the endocrine unit at school, my first reaction was that [...]
Tags: hyperchondria · med student syndrome · pheochromocytoma · why I am awesome at clinical correlation questions on tests
On Genitals… part 1
February 13th, 2009 3 Comments
Since the day I got my acceptance to medical school, I had been dreading one thing. Every time I thought about it, I felt my anxiety level bubble up like a two-liter of diet coke with a pack of mentos dropped in it. It wasn’t the thought of cutting up a dead body. [...]
Tags: anxiety · digital rectal exam · genitourinary exam · ICM · pelvic exam
On Gross Lab
November 13th, 2008 4 Comments
My dissecting partner has put me off to any number of foods recently. First, when we were removing the subcutaneous fat from our cadaver’s back, he noted the fat’s resemblance to undercooked scrambled eggs. That comparison was so spot- on that I couldn’t even think of eggs without gagging for a little while. This week, [...]
Tags: Cadaver · dissecting · Gross Anatomy · M1
On Time Commitments, or, Why I Haven’t Updated in So Damn Long…
August 19th, 2008 1 Comment
I wish I had a good excuse for why I haven’t updated in so long.
Oh, wait, I have several… The weeks stretching from the last part of July into the early part of August were hectic for me. “Hectic,” actually, would have been nice. No, those few weeks were something more–intolerably frustrating, perhaps? Maybe they [...]
Tags: first week · M1 · why I was a lazy blogger this week
