glasshalfMD

1/4[MD]

It’s still a little hard to believe I’m done with my first year of med school. It’s hard to believe how quickly the past eight months went by, that after this weekend, I don’t have to go back to 6am study sessions, hours of lectures and tutoring, and volumes upon volumes of notes. But, even more than any of that, its hardest to believe that, less than two days into summer vacation, I actually miss it all .. MCW, Tosa, Wisconsin, … all of it. It’s quite possible (and very likely) that at least part of this is due to some misplaced sense of nostalgia that’ll lift once I’ve gotten used to being back at home. But the fact that I’m nostalgic for any of it is surprise enough. I guess after eight months of the same thing, of seeing the same people, driving to the same places, doing the same things, it all gets familiar and comfortable. Whatever the reason though, its good to know that at least some part of me is starting to feel at home in Wisconsin since, after this summer, I’ll be spending 90% of the next three years there 

Med school

There is no winning in med school .. ever

whatshouldwecallmedschool:

Thank god for the hippocampus

One of the best things about putting my iTunes in shuffle while studying is happening every so often on a song that I haven’t heard for years .. one that seems to hit some deep nucleus in my cortex, and all of a sudden I’m getting flashbacks to things I haven’t thought of (or didn’t even know I remembered). Mostly recently to music I was listening to during my first month at Cal, all the while being homesick, overwhelmed with ochem and calculus I didn’t understand, and shoved into a lot of new experiences I didn’t really want to deal with. That was six years ago now, and somehow it seems impossible that it was actually that far back.

We don’t actually do higher-order cognitive functions until next (.. and last!!) block in neuro, so for all I know, the hippocampus doesn’t have anything to do with any of this .. but, its still interesting to think about 

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Seneca Crane’s Beard > Everything Else Ever

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the-90s-life:

SWAG

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FINALLY DONE … no longer have to worry about spoiler Peeta memes 

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When someone tells me how many calories are in the food I just ate

whatshouldwecallme:

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Please fasten your seatbelts. We have now begun our final descent into the San Francisco International Airport.

4 DAYS!

platinumblond:

Probably one of the sickest pictures I have ever taken. 

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