Well, it's been a while since I sent out a mass email to people letting them know how I've been.  So I sent one out today, now that I am blissfully in christmas vacation mode.  Most of this is probably stuff you already know, so don't bother to read it if you check my livejournal regularly... but I have to post it here for posterity anyway :)  I'll ( Read more... )

So my day of anxiety has come and gone: I took my second Cell Structure ( Read more... )

 Terrible.  Awful.  Scum-of-the-earth type.  Just crummy ( Read more... )

I know I left you all in a cliff-hanger last week, wondering... "How ( Read more... )

Ok, ok, stop the pre-email guilt trip! Yes, it has been almost two weeks since my last update e-mail, but I swear I had a good reason! I decided to wait to send out another e-mail until I'd had my first day of preceptorship. I'm not dead. I'm not panicking. I'm not slacking--I am just trying to bring you QUALITY Melissa gossip here, alright? Now ( Read more... )

Hooray for Week 2! Welcome all, to the 2nd installment of my "life at medical school" e-diarymail.

Last week was my second week of orientation and my first real lectures & lab sessions. It's a heady and enriching experience, being a medical student. Aye, 'tis easy to be overwhelmed by the realization of your academic aspirations, the ( Read more... )

It's been a stressful month, August has. It started out with me frantically trying to finish my Honors College thesis and give my oral defense on the 8th. I needed to do this to officially graduate from University of Oregon (I'd finished my courses and walked, but not finished my research in time to defend it before Spring '05), and thus ( Read more... )