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 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...

Hello! As I'm sure you can tell, this is my first blog and I plan to blog the heck out of this blog.  I'll tell you a little about me first.  I'm more of a traditional medical student, in that I...

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Greetings from the depths of the graduate school library as I take a quick break from Step 2 studying to update you on my life!

During the first few weeks of Pediatrics, my first rotation of third year, I emphasized that I was new, that it was my first day or week or month, that this was my first rotation.  But now it's Sun...

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"...

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I'm not quite sure how, but I am somehow left with five weeks in my research year off before returning to my fourth year of medical school! The last couple of months have been a blur of trying to fini...

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...

I just made it back to Huaraz after five days of camping in the foothills of Mt. Huandoy. The days were sunny and hot and the nights were freezing. Thankfully I had a rental down sleeping bag that kep...

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

En route to Perú, I finally have a few moments to catch you up on the past month, which passed in a flash! M1 year is over, and we are officially on summer break. It´s hard to believe how quickl...

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