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This week was the last week of M2 year. I took my last final of the preclinical years yesterday and am not tying up some loose ends before beginning to study for step 1. I was talking with a friend wh...

Happy Sunday!

This is Thanksgiving Break. I'm finally home after taking Cardiology, Respiratory, Renal, Clinical Foundations of Medicine, Psychiatry and Neurology. It has been a very busy and intense year so far. I...

This morning, I read an extremely well-written article in the New York Times about women in science. Here is the article for anyone who is interested in reading it. The article was a shock to me for s...

This Saturday myself and three of my classmates participated in the Tour de Troit. It is a 30 mile bike ride around the city of Detroit. Roads are closed off and around 6,000 cyclists can take a leisu...

I'm back in Ann Arbor for the start of M2 year. By now, the first year medical students have begun their classes and we have less than a week before we begin M2 Cardiology. I remember seeing the M2 sc...

I am currently on hold with customer service for American Airlines, which almost didn't give me a seat on my flight leaving Quito this week. Waiting on hold is usually one of the most frustrating expe...

I am currently in Ecuador with the University of Michigan's Quito Project. So far, the experience has been unbelievable. I arrived almost three weeks ago and I feel like my ability to navigate the cit...

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I have finally realized that there are actually only two weeks left of the M1 year left. Infectious Diseases ended last week, which I loved. But Infectious Diseases was also a whirlwind of microbio, c...

We are in our Infectious Diseases sequence now. When we finished Central Nervous System, we also finished anatomy and histology. Now instead of anatomy lab, we have microbiology lab. Rather than memor...

I worked for a few years before medical school in women's health research. I got a good deal of exposure to patients both through that work and also while volunteering in a free clinic in North Philad...

This week is the tech week for The Smoker, which is an annual play that lampoons physicians and professors at the University of Michigan. We've been rehearsing for about two months now, but the show i...

Our winter break is almost over and I got back to Ann Arbor Friday night after driving 600 miles back from Philadelphia. Interstate 76 was closed; therefore the trip took even longer than it normally ...