What a crazy couple of months!

...it just gets so much more messy before it gets clean!

When I was home for the holidays, I learned that my dad had packed away a box of photos years ago -- mostly from my sister's childhood, with a few of my brother and me as well -- and labeled it with b...

There are always a million and one things to learn, but somehow we still manage to be involved in a million and one things outside of school. This fall I've felt particularly fortunate, in that man...

It's been a wonderful, incredibly busy summer! After my classes ended in early May – and before starting summer research – I went out to California to visit family and to run in The Golden G...

Giving blood is not one of my very favorite activities, but I don't particularly mind it.  Most of the times I've had blood drawn it's been for selfish health purposes, checking the levels of this ...

Sunshine! There are still a few feet of snow on the ground, but the birds are singing and I've simply decided it *must* be spring.

Really, though, it will not stop.

The last few months have been a blur of wonderful activity. Busyness is good, and I'm definitely more productive when my schedule is full. I've delayed M2 year, so I am actually focusing on math class...

It's worth it. It really is. For all the thousands of hours we spend studying medicine, it simply takes a few great patient encounters to remind you how much you love it all. During the first and seco...

Walking down State Street this morning, undergrad overrun, I realized I'd better get in a few final thoughts about the summer months in Ann Arbor before we settle into fall.

I'll be honest, I genuinely love being back in a classroom where math is being done up on the chalkboard. I missed playing with numbers. For the last month or so, I've been taking intensive summer st...

I suppose that technically we're M2's now, though it feels somewhat presumptuous to say that, since we haven't yet started second-year coursework. It's our last real summer! We have a few months "off"...

Did we really just finish the first year? Apparently so.

Although not particularly harsh, winter was long this year; it was still snowing during the first week of May! In April, when we had our first real warm spell, I eagerly (read: foolishly) switched out...