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this too finally passed
Two years in the making, two months of high-strung anticipation, and the day came and went like any other. On Thursday I finally took Step One and earned my life back again ( Read more... ) -
my fast food experience
I caved today. I was tired, starving, and pissed off - it's two days before I take the USMLE and I've been studying all but nonstop since I came home from Grenada. On top of it, I've been being really stringent with my diet. Most of my food is raw and sometimes the only carbs in the day are from Kashi golean cereal. Besides the obligatory fare I ( Read more... ) -
sci-fi + late night studying makes for odd dreams
Here's what happens when you have Independence Day on mute one night and then Jurassic Park on mute the next, then decide to research Clover, the monster from the movie Cloverfield, at around 3:00 AM before going to bed after hours of studying ( Read more... ) -
the questions in between
It's been a while since I've done any writing, but with good reason. At face value, there was a lot to talk about. I took finals and finished my second year of medical school. I packed my things in brown boxes gilded with duct tape and spackled with tracking numbers that may have only been there to ensure safe passage, but to me, translated to the ( Read more... ) -
envy
Her name is Jayde Nicole. You might have heard of her, especially if you're a guy. I first saw this chick a couple of episodes ago on "The Hills," but from a comment on the show I gathered that she was a Playboy Playmate. A quick google search gave me the lowdown on her: just shy of a year younger than I am and the playmate of the year for 2008. I ( Read more... ) -
this time with a pink ribbon
While underwater, I listened to the alienesque sounds of currents and coral scraping on the shallow ocean floor. I watched a palate of fish dart in and out of the sunshine casting shifting beams of light into the deeper parts where the thermocline changed the sea from tropical warmth to the more mysterious cool of dark waters and hidden things. And ( Read more... ) -
anticipating my lost sunday
I'm kind of uninspired right now. It's a Sunday morning, but they've scheduled a test from 9-5 today that in principle, we shouldn't even have to take. It's basically a comprehensive exam of everything we've learned in basic sciences. If that sounds like the the same test I'm studying for in July, that's because it is. But the school feels the need ( Read more... ) -
apropos of the outcome
I don't really know what's taken me so long to come back here, but I've definitely been ignoring, if not outright avoiding, the nagging feeling that it's time for another entry. Perhaps because I'm reluctant to open the Pandora's box filled with reflections on a tumultuous personal life and conflicted feelings of my Grenada world coming to a close ( Read more... ) -
haunted
I don't know what's wrong with me. Lately I've been having trouble sleeping. I have terrible dreams that seem to last until just before I wake up. I don't really want to talk about them, which doesn't leave much potential for interpretation. They're not horrifying or scary, they're dreams about interactions with people...conversations I'm too ( Read more... ) -
I don't know much, but I know this...
I'm going to Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn for my third year clinical rotations ( Read more... )