studying for boards is like....
has two years of school really gone so fast? ...here i am studying for boards realizing that i will never sit in a clasroom again...in a month, i will be an apprentice in a hospital learning to save lives... an ER doc that had recently graduated from my school before i started said to me, enjoy your first two years, they will be the best...lol...well, i dont know that i would call it "the best"...but i wonder what that means for the future...if i look back, i would say the road was a bit bumpy with great highs and great lows....the sleepless nights before an exam (every monday morning) were the worst...studying till 2am...sleping 2:00-2:30...and then hearing the alarm at 2:30 knowing i have to get up and learn or fail an exam and get screwed...by 5:00am with so much more to do and 9:00 am pressing down the doubt would surface...by 8:00am waiting for the exam to begin with gameface on...by 10:30 deciding whether a or c was the right answer...then 11:00 am done...11:01 elation...i did it! pass or fail, i survived...11:30 am monday morning...drinks...a local bar not surprised to be serving students in scrubs heavy liquor at 11:30 AM on a monday morning...but this is my happy hour and the weekend has officially begun...bliss for days..until thur night when the hell begins again...
i could write a million stories of the last two years... stories unbelievably funny...sad...mundane...
perhaps the lasting presence of the last two years are the relationships formed... the friends i have met from all over the country... not in huge numbers, perhaps the 2 or 3 that have been the closest.. we now share an experience that has shaped our future and redefined us as people... an experience that few can relate to...one that we have shared as true friends..having seen each other under what i would call extreme conditions...and at the end we are more complicated, more insightful, more cynical, and dare i say, more intelligent...
i could write a million stories of the last two years... stories unbelievably funny...sad...mundane...
perhaps the lasting presence of the last two years are the relationships formed... the friends i have met from all over the country... not in huge numbers, perhaps the 2 or 3 that have been the closest.. we now share an experience that has shaped our future and redefined us as people... an experience that few can relate to...one that we have shared as true friends..having seen each other under what i would call extreme conditions...and at the end we are more complicated, more insightful, more cynical, and dare i say, more intelligent...