Sara Walker

Three weeks ago, we started the sequence that many of us had been dreading ever since we saw the M2 coursepack last year: Neuroscience/Special Senses. When we picked up our coursepack at the beginning...

After finishing our first three sequences of M2 year, my classmates and I were treated to two full weeks of CFM (Clinical Foundations of Medicine). It's amazing to realize how far we've come, as every...

This past week marked the beginning of the "Medicine in Spanish" elective. The goal of this elective is to teach us the skills (and vocabulary) needed to communicate with our patients entirely in Span...

As we come to the end of our second week of M2 year, I find it hard to believe it's only been two weeks. The amount of material I have shoved in my brain recently is astounding. And it's only just beg...

The weather in Ann Arbor these past few weeks has been absolutely lovely. It's amazing to think about how much we complained (justifiably so) during the long winter, but this weather reminds me of why...

When we were all trying to survive Infectious Diseases (ID), the thought that kept a lot of us going was that M1 year was all downhill after ID was over. Several students from previous years had menti...

As my first year of medical school begins to wind down, it's amazing to see how far we've come since August. This is really made clear by the fact that Second Look weekend is next Thursday, Friday, an...

After finishing the grueling Gastrointestinal-Liver sequence, it was time to enjoy the weekend. Thanks to Flextime quizzing, I was able to take the exam on Thursday and thus be done with GI after the ...

This week marks the beginning of the Winter term as medical students return from a two-week vacation. And what better way to mark the beginning of Winter term than our latest rendition of Snowpocalyps...

Hi everyone! A lot has happened since my last post, including the change of season in Ann Arbor! Fall has come, and with it the leaves are changing colors. Although the temperatures are dropping and c...

Hi everyone! This coming week marks the last week of Cells and Tissues (in which we essentially covered one semester of biochemistry and one semester of cell biology in a month) and the beginning of C...

Hello again everyone! We completed our first sequence, Patients and Populations, last week and began the next one, Cells and Tissues. It became very obvious to all of us that the material has been kic...

As this is my first post, I'll start off by introducing myself. I graduated from Michigan in 2012 with double degrees in biomedical engineering and honors mathematics, with a minor in French and Franc...