On Labor Day I went to Staten Island, the last of the 5 NYC boroughs that I hadn't been to. Considering I've only been here 3 months, I feel like I'm doing pretty well visiting a lot of the surrounding areas: visiting Doug's family in New Jersey, playing golf in the Hamptons, weekending on Long Island, Yankees games and random sculpture hunting in ( Read more... )

Having Fin in Atlanta for my birthday was a lot of fun - headed to a Braves game, went to a brewery, out for oysters (good, but not Hunt's), golf, culinary extravaganza, out for pool and more beer, and awesome brunch ( Read more... )

This semester has been primarily spent in the presence of those with neurological disorders since I've been trying to maximize my clinical neurology class to the utmost. Tuesday I shadowed an intern on his round through the neuropsych ward and it is another world all together from the predictable, calm Emory clinics; here people are actually ( Read more... )

While it has been only a matter of weeks since spring break, I feel like so much has happened. My schedule in the first place is rather full, so when unexpected events descend upon me, it makes things difficult to rearrange. Moreover, I've been forced to deal with some rather unpleasant issues and realizations that, perhaps naively, I had ( Read more... )

With a small, satisfied smile, I draw a dark black line across number 17 on my life to do list ( Read more... )

Have you ever woken up to a bad omen ( Read more... )

Alright kiddos, I'd like to start off by saying damn you! to Andi and Trav, since I got way to into this. For the others, I challenge you guys to compile a list - it isn't easy as you would expect, especially if you don't use the same artist more than once. With no furthe adeu ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the best morning I've had in the past month. I was woken up at 730am by a phone call from Jhade (climbing buddy) trying to convince me that I should ditch my morning classes because it was going to be a beautiful day. That early in the morning, it is much easier to persuade me, plus I just didn't really feel like an 8:30 lecture on ( Read more... )

GRRRR! One of the requirements to all medical schools is one year of calculus. Now I understand that some parts of calculus are perfectly applicable, but others are utterly ridiculous! It's not like I'll be working in the ER and all of a sudden, "woah woah woah, Doctor Diana, I've got a krazay idea; get this, instead of amputating this man's leg, ( Read more... )

Saturday ended the rather hellish experience that most people call Sorority Rush. First off, at Emory it's an extrememly bureucratic, week long even comprised of first starting with all the sororities and then having the potential pledges and sororities cut the ones they don't like. In the middle of all this, one round you to philanthropy events ( ( Read more... )