It’s hard to describe the experience in words: it’s flown by so fast (and yet so slowly), but before I knew it, I found myself sitting here at my desk trying to convey how utterly surreal it’s been (while haphazardly trying to pack for my flight to Taiwan tomorrow morning). I’ve met lots of amazing people, am astounded with how much I’ve learned in only 6 months, and am desperately trying to figure out how I’m supposed to keep all this information in my head.
Classmates have been making status updates with how we’re “1/8th” of a doctor now — and the thought is kind of terrifying. If this semester is any indication, 7 more will fly right on by and I’ll be responsible for people’s lives. Holy. Cow.
…trying not to let that thought get the best of me. Until then, I’m going half way around the world on a long-awaited vacation. Prepare for upcoming picture posts! :)
It’s currently 2:08am and I have a Physiology quiz tomorrow at 9am (with a crap-ton of information to be tested on…), but this man is seriously one of my heroes.
Astrophysics is something that greatly interests me (that black hole section during the interview blew my mind!), and I wish I had the intelligence to pursue it. This had to have been one of the most interesting interviews (if not the most interesting interview) I’ve ever watched — having Stephen Colbert leading it was a big plus too :)
Other news:
Test week is approaching (yet again) in 2 weeks, so updates will probably be sparse between then and now. But it’s not like they were numerous to begin with…but…
I’m going to Taiwan for my winter break, so that hopefully means that I finally get to use my camera again and make lots of photo updates! Yay.
Until then I’ll probably be experiencing yet another horrible stress-induced acne breakout and make lots of McDonald’s runs at 2 in the morning for some fries. That’s the med school lifestyle, yo.
When I tell people I’m in medical school, one of the first questions they ask me is how I feel walking out of anatomy lab — namely, am I hungry, despite having worked with and stared at a dead person’s body for an hour or three? (In case you didn’t know, people say that you get really hungry after anatomy lab.)
Today, I “milked” my cadaver’s large intestines in order to clean it out of feces. (Or, put succintly, I squeezed some bowels and took out some poop.) And in about 15 minutes, I’m heading over to an Indian buffet for some grub.