After more than 13 weeks of doing NOTHING related to medical school (except for interviews, but, I mean, that's a completely different animal from actual medical-related endeavors) I start a 4 week research project very soon. I had the meeting with the coordinator today and after talking about broad areas of interest that interest me, she said she' ( Read more... )

I'm at the VA (thank goodness tomorrow is my last day) and I know for sure now that I can cross off internal medicine from my list. We were on call last night (that'll be a rant for later in this post) and my fellow student picked up a "really interesting case" of a man with a horrible headache. It turns out he had GCA (trigeminal neuralgia, ( Read more... )

I have a history exam today at 2. I started studying for it last night at about 5pm. However, that study session, such as it was, was severely fragmented by frequent pauses to watch Psych (my new semi-obsession), talk to my dad, and go grocery shopping. I planned on waking up early to continue studying. I actually woke up at 9:30. I'm doing a half- ( Read more... )