A Crazy Week

This week was our first week of exams. Monday and Tuesday were a huge mind dumb onto the Scantron sheets they gave us. I still think that the flexor pollicis brevis should count even if it extends your thumb. An extensor versus a flexor whats the difference they move your thumb. I also want to put forth that veins and arteries should be painted blue and red. In the body they are both white (WTF IS THAT?) and I know once again you are shocked. Want me to add another shocker? Nerves are white colored too! Awesomeness abound is what I replied with.

Back to the week at hand. I will only say a few brief words as the songs speak to my life.

Monday the 6th

Wednesday the 8th

At this point the fact that I had a test only a few days away really didn't seem like that big of a deal. Life really couldn't have been better. Then the realism of the test set in

Friday and Saturday nights (I was studying, but sometimes being a human being is more important especially when you think someone is awesome)

SUNDAY (T MINUS 24 HOURS)

This song describes the only thing going on in my mind

Monday after the test, still needing to study, worried about so many other things all that was left in my mind

Tuesday after the test

Then everything that had been awesome fell apart.

But what do i need to do

Maybe I'll explain later, maybe I won't. The songs speak for themselves. This is the soundtrack of my life.

A New Beggining

You may be wondering why I am calling a post "A New Beginning" a month into school. Well, we just finished our first exam and I feel like this is actually my new beginning. I have found out a little about how medical school works, I have taken a test, I have sorta, kinda figured out how to introduce myself to a patient, I have discovered a few things about anatomy, I learned that the funny boned doesn't exist, and that its actually a nerve. What I haven't learned you ask, anything really involving disease. I couldn't do a single thing to help a person in distress (OK, I can call 911, but so can you).

What is studying for a test like? It's pretty awful. It sucks the life from you, it makes you do things you may regret, it makes you eat a ton of food you should not eat and all of this is in the goal of passing! Getting a 70% on an exam is like winning half a million dollars. (OK, getting a 95% on the exam would be like winning a half million dollars; a 70% is like dancing with Molly Sims)

This song sums up what I need in medical school. It is a long journey you keep walking and walking. It is like a lover, teases you, makes you feel like everything is ok and then its not. To be able to experience this walk is amazing and I feel extremely lucky, but it does weigh on you immensely.