Sunday, September 21st, 2008. I'll be getting married. Be there!

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I don't understand why every person to whom I've confessed my fears of failing my first final responds with platitudes. "I'm sure you'll do fine." "Look at how much you've studied; you'll do great." I don't consider myself to be the type of person who complains about tests in order to fish for compliments. If I say that I'm worried about an ( Read more... )

How can it be that after six years, I'm still hurting? My mood matched today's weather: thoroughly gloomy, occasional rain.

I understand that this shouldn't be the sort of great and terrible revelation that I'm perceiving it to be, but medical school is hardA large portion of my problem stems from the fact that I had about two hours of sleep last night, and haven't really eaten all day, which makes it impossible to study any of the enormous amount of material that's ( Read more... )

By this time next week, if you want to send a letter to Bill or I, you'll have to send it to our new address in Kew Gardens, Queens.

Because we got approved for our new apartment! Hooray! Woohoo! Weeeee!

On my way to work this morning, I noticed the woman next to me reading a hand-out about Buprenorphine, an opiate-like drug that helps ease withdrawal, but won't get you high. Apparently, it contains naloxone, which apparently will trigger withdrawal symptoms if someone tries to crush the buprenorphine pills to get high ( Read more... )

I'm sick today, so I didn't get a chance to come back to campus and say goodbye to everyone. I refuse to be sad about it, though. We're done living together, of course. We're done with college, most of us. But all this means is that we finally get to be grown-ups now ( Read more... )

THESIS TO-DO
[x] Reserve room for thesis defense.
[x] Notify thesis readers.
[x] Print out thesis near-final copy.
[x] Buy fruit platter for thesis defense on Thursday night or Friday morning.
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I'm about to take my Neurobiology test here, in a hotel room in California, while all the other students are sitting in a classroom in New York. Strange, and somehow terrifying.

Update: I got a 91! (Not a hundred, like I've consistently been getting on the quizzes and tests, but definitely good enough.)

In the greatpoets LJ community today, I stumbled across a poem by Jonathan Chin, an old friend from high school, and fellow Poets member. I'd lost touch with him, and now it turns out that he's been published somewhere. I found his website/blog, and discovered that his poetry has improved since I last read it. I even found a few poems that I'd ( Read more... )