School's in session

Ok, I'm crazy buzy now so not much time to write. Finished the first 2 weeks and the first big test (Path). Got the results back at lunch and I actually aced it (98%)! I'm thrilled, but worked my butt off and noticed that the rest of the tests are for larger units with less time to study.

And of course, I'm behind in Pharm and Micro. Micro is on Monday (we're not into M & F tests...yet) so I need to catch up on that. However, I'm doing the paid TA thing for the MSIs which takes 2 free afternoons, a lunch and some review time. It's fun though and I need the review. Tomorrow Dr. Walters is going over the brachial plexus with us. That will be great. I am also enjoy spending time with the MSIs. It's kind of fun to teach them and get to know them.

Club Week went fine. We got over 32 new AMA-MSS members, far better than last year's 19. And Oncology got 45 new members which I'm thrilled over. Now Matt and I need to find committee chairpeople willing to take over some projects. Matt and I are also continuing on with some of my summer research. I'm not sure how much time I can spend on that, but I'm going to show Matt some of the H2O2 stuff on Wednesday.

Another time drain is ICM and Clinical Correlates. We have weekly cases for ICM where we have to type up SOAP notes weekly and do a full H&P once a quarter. CC is a huge sink we have a 3 hour rambling lecture and a huge, VERY poorly written note packet that cover some monsterous topic in great detail (Shock, MI, etc.). We have to digest all this for the weekly quiz that's about 30% of our grade.

Oh, did I mention that just like last year, I started the year with an awful cold that had me in bed for a complete. I missed a few nights of studying there. Now Becky is down with it. The one upside is that I will be at school studying late and missing dinner so much this year, I don't think we'll be trading bugs much.

The profs this year haven't endeared themselves to me yet. I'm just looking at this year as the 10 month (thru Boards) death march. My "light at the end of the tunnel" is a quote I read recently; "the worst day on rotations is better than the best day in the classroom."

There is still hope...