So I’ve just got back from the school of medicine's summer ball. It was in the gardens of Syon Park - a very grand affair indeed. Had a ball! Unlimited free drinks, Nando’s chicken and Krispy Kreme doughnuts…yummy. Plus they hired some dodgems; it was fun times all round. Still a little woozy hence lack of quality of written communication ( Read more... )

This weekend I have ( Read more... )

What it is to be free! I find I'm as tired and getting as little sleep as I was before, but it's a different kind of feeling. It's the exhaustion you get after you've been out and about seeing and doing exciting things ( Read more... )

Forget all the mindless whining of past, today I sat my last exam ( Read more... )

A 3 hour exam in the morning and then another exam in the afternoon! My brain officially = mush. I can't concentrate enough to type properly so I'll keep this short ( Read more... )

So this is it ( Read more... )

Today I was reduced to tears whilst on the phone to my parents. This is the first time I've been so upset over upcoming exams. Silly really, getting anxious will only make me underperform. My parents were lovely, really supportive and encouraging. Yet I still feel a wave of asphyxiation whenever I think of the week ahead. Well, I guess it's an ( Read more... )

I feel doubly qualified to say that the menstrual cycle officially sucks. Periods. Pregnancy. Labour. Lactation. And when all that's finally over, women are blessed with the Menopause. Hurrah ( Read more... )

I just discovered that one of my lectures, deceptively given the straightforward title Thrombosis, Infarction and Embolism has wait for it, 111 ppt. slides. I'm not kidding. How did my lecturer put this together?! Moreover, how did I forget sitting in this lecture?!

Having a heart attack.

I know, I'm such a wit.

As if trying to get to grips with how a little person gets from a little ball of cells to a fully formed fetus (officially correct spelling and don't let any English person tell you otherwise)...some embryologist has deliberately tried to make my life unecessarily confusing:

Formation of the genitourinary systemThe metanephros (kidney to you and ( Read more... )