It turns out that in the first two years of medical school, any interesting spark of thought that begins to smolder in my mind is quickly extinguished to make room for another drug side effect or species of bacteria. Hence the 17 month hiatus. But just like a season of The Sopranos, I'm about to make a thrilling return. I think. Once I get the ( Read more... )

One of the quotes from orientation week that I wrote down and never posted, uttered by the speaker without a trace of irony: "It's like, if you listen to the words, it totally changes the meaning of the song ( Read more... )

Dear people with enough time on their hands to dick around on LJ,


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This morning in the student lounge, a couple first-years were shooting pool. One guy had a tattoo on his left arm of one of those "mysterious" Asian characters that have become infuriatingly popular. His opponent asked him about it ( Read more... )

Sometimes in a video game RPG, after you finish beating the boss of a certain level, in order to get back on your journey you have to backtrack through the castle, or cave, or forest, or other excuse to have lots of monsters jump out at you. The same enemies still populate the place, but you've grown so powerful that fighting them is a tedious joke ( Read more... )

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I've been trying to clean out my room and my closet all weekend, and yesterday I came across a box of notebooks from my last couple years of college. Most of them are a testament to an academic laziness that needs to end when I start at Drexel. The first two pages are neatly arranged, with the date and lecture title at the top and a perfectly ( Read more... )

If there's any positive to be found in a job that involves spending hours at a time in the stifling air of a tiny room with 400 rodents, it's that I get to spend a lot of quality time with my iPod. Great new albums that usually take a month or more to truly savor can get played out before the week is up. So I've managed to run through a fairly ( Read more... )

The one problem with finally getting accepted to med school? There's a lot of TV watching I have to catch up on. Especially Scrubs and House M.D. See, for the last three years I've been so preoccupied with the notion that I might never actually get to do the thing I've been aiming at for half my life that I couldn't even watch people pretend to do ( Read more... )

Thomas J. Killeen, M.D.

Has a nice ring to it, no?

Drexel seems to think so.

Class of 2010, bitches.

Expect more updates now that my straightjacket of anxiety has finally been cut loose.