I found out today that the holiday lights on the tree lined walk through the middle of Columbia's campus go out at 1AM ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm totally stressed out about finals now. I was pretty relaxed at the beginning of this week, thinking that I'd have a whole week of nothing but studying, and I'd be in good shape. Of course that week has quickly dissolved into tonight and 2 days, and I'm flipping out. I'm also getting all ADD about studying, and can't focus for very long ( Read more... )

I am at once humbled, amazed, and reverent ( Read more... )

In general, I don't shower in the mornings. It's mostly a time management/laziness issue - I refuse to get out of bed even a second earlier than I absolutely need to. Compounding this the amount of time a shower takes me - with my subsequent skin care ritual, the whole endeavor generally doesn't take me less than 20 minutes to half an hour (and ( Read more... )

I never thought the way I would find respect and friendship from my classmates in the program would be for my dancing ( Read more... )

It turns out that I have yet another hurdle to cross on my quest for the MD or DO degree. The MCAT will no longer be offered in its current form as of August 2006, and I can't take it by then. The new version will be a computer based exam ( Read more... )

A lot of people get very confused when they see how tipping works in the US - particularly in New York, to some extent. There are a number of services for which a tip is expected - although it's not quite clear to me why sometimes. With some things tips are appreciated, but not really expected. Sometimes a little money is required to grease the ( Read more... )

So last night, after all of the festivities with my physics lab people, I was going home and realized that I didn't want to let my alcohol buzz go quite yet. Rather than pick up a bottle of Jack and toss it back in my room like a degenerate, I decided to go to a neighborhood bar and drink some Jack like...well, marginally less of a degenerate ( Read more... )

Sometimes I find it really funny how the mind structures some things. Today, for example, was my last day of physics lab. To celebrate the first semester of him teaching, my lab TA invited us all out to a bar to hang out and celebrate the end of a great term. This bar was at 108th St and Amsterdam Ave. I've been in this area a couple of times ( Read more... )

It sucks to get old. It sucks to get hurt. There are exponential effects when these things are combined. This morning in the ER we had an 84 year old man brought in by EMS with a femur fracture. There was a defined deformity in his thigh, and probably over a liter and half of extra fluid in the area (basically, you could see the bone trying to ( Read more... )