Destination Medicine

Friday, January 23, 2009

2009 - New number, same grind

Well, after a lovely break for Christmas, I have returned for the second semester. I did end up passing all of my classes and tests. Thank goodness, especially since I took the Gross exam with a fever, don't remember the majority of it and left really quickly. This semester the lovely classes being presented are Neuroscience, Physiology, Microbiology and Immunology. I can say that I have no love for any of the classes so far and that had inhibited my study progress. I have tests next week and hope that I can get caught up with all of them to sufficiently pass each test.

This semester has a horrible schedule. Each morning has about 4 hours of class straight. Last semester we usually didn't start until 9 or sometimes 10. I just seem to always be here and by the time I can sit down to do notes or study it is time to go or I am just beat. It seems to be fairly common with the class that it has been difficult to get started. Not that it makes it any better, but at least I am in good company.

The best thing about this semester has been my decision to go and shadow in the ER with Dr. O. I thought that I would stay for about 4 hours but ended staying for about 7 hours and not getting home until midnight. It was great to see some of the stuff that we had talked about in an actual person that really brought the concept home. It also made me realize that in a city of 4 million, people can do some really dumb things.

Well, enough diversion from studying. I need to buckle down. I studying ALL weekend, too. Yippee. But I still love it.