A Med School Memoir

I realize I haven’t had much to say this semester. That’s because the second year of med school is not very interesting. A blog full of posts that say “today I studied” would be no fun to read.  At least during the first semester we did a couple novel things like phlebotomy lab and suture lab.  Second semester has been nothing but class after class of basic science stuff… mostly fairly dry.  The first semester of the year was pretty chock-full of information as it was, but the second semester borders on painful in how much info is being consistently crammed into my brain. This is largely due to the fact that I’m preparing for Step 1 on top of studying for class.  For every two pieces of info I put into my brain, I can feel another pop out somewhere else.  It’s like playing Whack-a-Mole in your brain.  Every time you “whack” a new piece of information, something else pops up… you may or may not have enough time/energy/resources to “whack” what comes up next.  It’s a continuous process of playing catch up.  To be honest, at this point, it feels like my med school career is a bit like a submarine taking on water… every time you patch up one leak, that just causes another rivet to pop off somewhere else and you end up right back where you were, despite your efforts to prevent your ultimate demise.

I know I sound dark and dreary, but I’m actually optimistic.  I only have one block left, and then I’m done with classes for second year.  And while I’ve never been the type of person to wish my short time on Earth to speed by any faster than it already does, I am very excited to be done with second year and begin third year.

On a side note, we recently completed our endocrine block.  Every disease is hyper-this and hypo-that.  I couldn’t help but be reminded of this classic skit from SNL while studying for this block.

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