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...

It seems that summer turned to fall at some point—not quite sure when, but I think it was right around the time that hordes of people began to make their way to Ann Arbor for the start of footbal...

Two sequences down.  Not bad.  This year is BUSY but somehow still manageable.  The good news is that we are learning all kinds of interesting things about the organ systems but it certainly ...

Hello! My name is Shannon Flynn, and I am a proud member of the University of Michigan Medical School Class of 2013. Having been a regular reader of the Dose of Reality blogs for the past four years (...

Med school is ... interesting, to say the least. It's been almost two months now since I've started my first year at U of M Med School, and in many ways I'm pleasantly surprised with my experience. My...

According to Dr. Kumagai, something "fundamentally changed" in us the moment we got our acceptance letters to the University of Michigan. Upon hearing this, my first instinct was to reject the n...

Hello hello hello!  Back in the saddle, and not 4 months after my last post--pretty proud of myself.  Hope everyone is enjoying the new Blog format--I know that I definitely am. Welcome to Fall ...

So it's day #1, M2 year, everyone is more or less ready to get started, everything is in order, and WHAM!  I wake up Monday morning with the flu.  Scored a 103.1 that night.  Perfect.  I w...

It occurred to me recently when a classmate of mine who is doing a Cardiology rotation in Alaska sent me a not-so-subtle e-mail about the less-than-modest amount of time that has passed since my la...

AIDS 2010 "the International AIDS Conference" is off to a great start.  I went to some satellite sessions (organized by groups other than the conference, but reviewed by the conference for relev...

Hello again, I figured it'd be nice to stop in with some updates on the summer.  I can't say anything really new has happened.  It's been about 90 degrees every day the past week or so and the s...