Wow.  So M2 year came and went.  And I certainly enjoyed the relaxing 36 hours of vacation before Day #1 of the STEP 1 boards study period began.  A lot has happened in the past 3 days since...

Happy Valentine's Day! I can't say I love the colon as much as the heart, but that's what I've been learning about the past couple weeks now.  It's actually very interesting because a ton of doctor...

Well the machine that is medical school is back in high gear, beginning with a unique course entitled "Hematology & Oncology".  Basically we're learning about blood and cancer--two highly important...

I thought I'd stop by the blog just to check in before I completely let myself go.  I am currently sitting in a comfy chair in front of the TV listening to music while the dogs take a nap.  My d...

Thanksgiving was definitely the best compensation for the past few weeks of school.  So many donuts, so much pie, so little time.  I chilled with the puppies quite a bit too which was nice.  ...

So it turns out the brain is pretty important.  There are so many parts though--even if you google mapped the brain you'd probably still get lost, even with the aerial view on.  This week is the...

The scariest part of Halloween this year was fitting in that Psychiatry final exam into the last remaining hours of a fun weekend.  The motivation was not really anywhere to be found but our one-we...

Ahhh the renal sequence is over.  The first half went smoothly since it was mostly physiology.  But for the second half I had to plug my ears at night to make sure all those facts didn't leak ou...

So check it out, I'm not going to talk about school this time.  Instead, there are some exciting things coming up that are worth knowing about.  First up, I got tickets to go see Deadmau5 in Oct...

Two sequences down.  Not bad.  This year is BUSY but somehow still manageable.  The good news is that we are learning all kinds of interesting things about the organ systems but it certainly ...

So it's day #1, M2 year, everyone is more or less ready to get started, everything is in order, and WHAM!  I wake up Monday morning with the flu.  Scored a 103.1 that night.  Perfect.  I w...

Hello again, I figured it'd be nice to stop in with some updates on the summer.  I can't say anything really new has happened.  It's been about 90 degrees every day the past week or so and the s...