Another thought driven Sunday...
So I have to finish studying for tomorrow's midterm. I am ready, but I
need to lock in some info to assure an amazing grade. I will study till
5, then I have to go pick up some things from the old apartment that I
left at Karina's house and then off to pick up my roommate Vladi from
the bus terminal. The lucky s.o.b. got to spend a week at home (Chile),
because he was done with exams and decided to bail out of classes for a
week to get a mini vacation.
After picking him up, we will most probably get some dinner and recap all the fun he had in Chile (and give me the bottle of pisco sour he promised to bring me if I go pick him up).
With tomorrow's midterm, the month following it is going to be super quick. A month of nonstop work and classes. I always liked the month after midterms. You are so busy with classes, studying, lab, and school in general, and that just keeps you on your toes and ready for quarterlies and finals. You really do not have time or are not concerned with other things apart from school, which is cool because you do not have to deal with going out and stuff. I like the times when I become antisocial to the outside world and am part of a routine that requires you to be in the house most of the time just being comfortable. You only deal with your house mates and good friends. You also have the chance to save up money. I just want to save up some money, kill this semester with impressive grades and just go home in August with the attitude to let loose and have fun.
Another reason is that I am taking french every day for three hours. I am working to get the fellow that France offers to 150 students worldwide. I have to take the DELF and DALF (and aced them), take their medical boards (and aced them) and have an impressive GPA and curriculum. I am not allowed to participate for the scholarship for another three more years. By 2009 I will have meet all the prerequisites and be allowed to run for the fellow, but the French embassy here has been helping me. They think I can really get the fellow if I maintain my GPA, and starting next year load up more on my work load. They are helping me prepare for the DELF and DALF and the boards. It is cool when you are offered a really good opportunity and have a strong support system to help you get it. I have been working hard. Going to medical conferences all around South America (I am hoping that I can make it to the one in Panama this October), working on starting up some health programs (focusing more on Preventive Medicine), writing up cases to present to journals (the most interesting one is breast cancer in men), and taking extra courses over summer and winter breaks. It is a lot of work, but I enjoy it. All of it.
I want to go to France because that is where Doctors Without Borders was started and I feel like I want to move on to France after Bolivia. The USA it my second option. The thing is that medicine in the US has a different focus. It's based on super-specializing everyone and has an approach to people that involves less emotion and more based on facts and numbers. It only serves people who can pay for services. Doctors, thanks to insurance companies and lawyers, have been forced to become less attentive and more detached from the human aspect of medicine. I do not want that kind of formation, which is the main reason I quit studying in the states.
I have to run and get in some studying... 8 more weeks and I will be home!!!
LIVE FREE, RULE WELL
After picking him up, we will most probably get some dinner and recap all the fun he had in Chile (and give me the bottle of pisco sour he promised to bring me if I go pick him up).
With tomorrow's midterm, the month following it is going to be super quick. A month of nonstop work and classes. I always liked the month after midterms. You are so busy with classes, studying, lab, and school in general, and that just keeps you on your toes and ready for quarterlies and finals. You really do not have time or are not concerned with other things apart from school, which is cool because you do not have to deal with going out and stuff. I like the times when I become antisocial to the outside world and am part of a routine that requires you to be in the house most of the time just being comfortable. You only deal with your house mates and good friends. You also have the chance to save up money. I just want to save up some money, kill this semester with impressive grades and just go home in August with the attitude to let loose and have fun.
Another reason is that I am taking french every day for three hours. I am working to get the fellow that France offers to 150 students worldwide. I have to take the DELF and DALF (and aced them), take their medical boards (and aced them) and have an impressive GPA and curriculum. I am not allowed to participate for the scholarship for another three more years. By 2009 I will have meet all the prerequisites and be allowed to run for the fellow, but the French embassy here has been helping me. They think I can really get the fellow if I maintain my GPA, and starting next year load up more on my work load. They are helping me prepare for the DELF and DALF and the boards. It is cool when you are offered a really good opportunity and have a strong support system to help you get it. I have been working hard. Going to medical conferences all around South America (I am hoping that I can make it to the one in Panama this October), working on starting up some health programs (focusing more on Preventive Medicine), writing up cases to present to journals (the most interesting one is breast cancer in men), and taking extra courses over summer and winter breaks. It is a lot of work, but I enjoy it. All of it.
I want to go to France because that is where Doctors Without Borders was started and I feel like I want to move on to France after Bolivia. The USA it my second option. The thing is that medicine in the US has a different focus. It's based on super-specializing everyone and has an approach to people that involves less emotion and more based on facts and numbers. It only serves people who can pay for services. Doctors, thanks to insurance companies and lawyers, have been forced to become less attentive and more detached from the human aspect of medicine. I do not want that kind of formation, which is the main reason I quit studying in the states.
I have to run and get in some studying... 8 more weeks and I will be home!!!
LIVE FREE, RULE WELL