I'm writing this now from San Francisco, sitting on an air mattress in my new apartment, with the dog curled in a packing blanket that I also used as a comforter last night. We've spent the past four ...

Hey everyone.. it's been a long time since my last entry and I'm happy to announce I finished and survived third year! It's amazing how time flies when you are having fun.. and kind of stressed....

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...

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...

Hey y'all,

Hello again, and happy spring!! At long last, the cold has left Ann Arbor, and it is a beautiful 70 degree afternoon as I write this. A lot has happened since my last post back in early March. First, ...

I spent the last week in San Francisco finding an amazing apartment (although I was not really responsible for the finding… credit where credit is due, Lynn) and noticing the cyclists there. As...

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...

What is hope? Hoping to pass, hoping to travel, hoping to grow...

Believe it or not, my last real day of medical school was Friday. I finished all of my exams for OB/GYN Boot Camp (which was the most fabulous last rotation I could have imagined), and now I just ha...

As some of you have heard, Match Day is over and I'll be heading out to San Francisco to start my OB/GYN residency at UCSF in June. It's hard to believe that the day is past, and no one really said ...

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...

In one week, M2 year will officially end.  As I am spending most of my time making a color-coded Excel schedule for boards studying and trying to understand what exactly is a molar pregnancy in Rep...

Hello world! Its been ages!