so i realize i've been pretttty quiet on the blog front lately, but i've been a teensy bit busy! last week we had finals, and i finished out my first year of medical school! - so surreal. i feel like the year totally flew by! not that i'm complaining. life just goes by really fast when you are constantly counting down to an exam!
anyway, the year ended on a good note, and now i'm drowning in free time and not sure what to do with myself! it's so bizarre just sitting on the couch watching tv and surfing the web without feeling guilty! love.
this summer i'm staying in galveston to do research. we get elective credit that can buy us time off in 3rd and 4th year, plus research looks great on residency apps! yes, they are already freaking us out about applying for residency. no, i still have no idea what i want to do! i've got time, right?....
other summer plans include baking to my heart's content, volunteering at the free clinic, tutoring the incoming first years, going to the beach (so easy to forget i live half a mile away!), and playing with my friends! plus p90x. one of my guy friends recruited me to do it with him... wow, just wow. first day kicked my butt, primarily because it was about a bajillion pushups. today was the cardio workout: MUCH better! and it is so nice having a workout buddy - accountability and it makes you way less likely to crap out whenever you have someone yelling at you to keep going!
more posts to come! promise!
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Saturday, February 18, 2012
remember me?
remember that time i used to blog? yah, kind of fell off the bandwagon: oops.
so it's been about 2 months... but you haven't missed much! just more of the same. studying my face off and living for the weekend after the test! - the weekend after our midterm was super fun. we made homemade pizza, went out, and ended up going two-stepping :) - granted, i'm the world's worst dancer and can't follow anyone's lead to save my life, but it was fun nonetheless!
other updates... just committed to a summer research project in galv. it is clinically-based and has to do with the psychology of over-eating and food addictions. sounds pretty interesting! also means i'll be here all 8 weeks of summer with the exception of a weekend trip here and there. oh well, can't whine too much! besides, most of my friends will be in town, so it will be fun to actually be able to "be friends" without the stresses of constant studying!
also went and volunteered at the free clinic this week for the first time. it was so weird! we actually got to pretend we were doctors! i got to take the patient history, perform part of the physical, and almost got to do a PAP smear. too bad the lady had a tricky cervix... and by tricky i mean really high up and difficult to reach. wow - that must sound really bizarre to non-medical people. i'm so used to talking about weird body fluids/parts/functions with my friends like it's no big deal. i forget that IS NOT NORMAL, haha.
anyway, hopefully i'll be popping back in without waiting another 2 months!
so it's been about 2 months... but you haven't missed much! just more of the same. studying my face off and living for the weekend after the test! - the weekend after our midterm was super fun. we made homemade pizza, went out, and ended up going two-stepping :) - granted, i'm the world's worst dancer and can't follow anyone's lead to save my life, but it was fun nonetheless!
other updates... just committed to a summer research project in galv. it is clinically-based and has to do with the psychology of over-eating and food addictions. sounds pretty interesting! also means i'll be here all 8 weeks of summer with the exception of a weekend trip here and there. oh well, can't whine too much! besides, most of my friends will be in town, so it will be fun to actually be able to "be friends" without the stresses of constant studying!
also went and volunteered at the free clinic this week for the first time. it was so weird! we actually got to pretend we were doctors! i got to take the patient history, perform part of the physical, and almost got to do a PAP smear. too bad the lady had a tricky cervix... and by tricky i mean really high up and difficult to reach. wow - that must sound really bizarre to non-medical people. i'm so used to talking about weird body fluids/parts/functions with my friends like it's no big deal. i forget that IS NOT NORMAL, haha.
anyway, hopefully i'll be popping back in without waiting another 2 months!
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