So it turns out the brain is pretty important.  There are so many parts though--even if you google mapped the brain you'd probably still get lost, even with the aerial view on.  This week is the...

I remember when I scheduled my board exam.  I wrote a blog post, very much like this one, documenting what seemed like a massive, but nonetheless intermediate milestone.  Today, I check off anot...

It's 8 am on a Sunday morning. Middle of November, 2010.  I'm 3 weeks deep into surgery, and it's hard to believe where I've been so far.  Everyone told me that 3rd year was unlike anything I ha...

Hello all, hope everything is going well.

The scariest part of Halloween this year was fitting in that Psychiatry final exam into the last remaining hours of a fun weekend.  The motivation was not really anywhere to be found but our one-we...

The midterm elections are just around the corner, so I thought I'd post my usual links to information about voting as well as the usual reminders about what you can and cannot do at the polls. Also...

Focusing so much of my energy on school, I have to admit that autumn sort of snuck up on me. But rolling down the winding roads leading out of Ann Arbor the other day gave me a moment to appreciate th...

On Monday morning, my classmates and I lined the perimeter of a large conference room, whose center had been cleared of all folding chairs and replaced with props and lighting suggestive of a makeshif...

It's finally starting to sink in that I'm going back to medical school next year.  As much as I've been writing and thinking about it recently, it's only just now occurred to me that I will be rejo...

Med school as a first-year student so far is going very well. We're covering the heart and lung this month, which means we have some understanding of side effects of drugs that we hear on TV commercia...

Ahhh the renal sequence is over.  The first half went smoothly since it was mostly physiology.  But for the second half I had to plug my ears at night to make sure all those facts didn't leak ou...

Around the time he told me to picture roots sprouting from the soles of my feet he started to lose me. In fact, if you had told me when I woke up last Monday morning that I'd utilize any part of my da...

Two things have happened in the past few weeks that have made reflect on my extensive academic history here at Michigan...  One was academic and the other more practical, but both prompted some rev...

So check it out, I'm not going to talk about school this time.  Instead, there are some exciting things coming up that are worth knowing about.  First up, I got tickets to go see Deadmau5 in Oct...