Wednesday, November 30, 2011

#30: Medical Poetry Slam...Not Really

Aorta tell you I'm quite stressed.
With all this Robbins left I haven't gotten much rest.
Overdosing on Folger's coffee,
I run to the bathroom quite often to pee.
Renal dysfunction, heart palpitations,
please Winter break give me much needed relaxation.

Thursday, November 24, 2011

#29: Turkey Day

I would like to thank for all the crappy, painful, exhausting, disappointing, and simply shitty stuff and all the mistakes, the foolishness, and embarrassment that has happened. I want to thank all the people who made those shitty stuff possible. Because without it and without them, I don't think I would be as grateful for all the good stuff, even the tiny good stuff, that has happened. I've learned a lot this past year about what to do, what not to do, who I am, and who I am not. I believe I've grown and become ever so slightly better because of my experiences.

I'm happy and proud to be a medical student. However much I bitch and moan about med school, I am truly happy to wake up each day and learn about what I love, medicine. I don't care if you think that sounds cheesy because I know it's true. Even when I want to shoot my brains out learning about psychiatry or the different Hodgkin's lymphomas, I love what I learn.

I want to thank my parents, my sister, my cousin, my aunt, and other family members. Even when things were rough, they stuck by me, especially my sister. She's awesome.

I love the close friends I have. I can call them up when I'm flustered and stressed out from studying and they would talk to me about random things to get my mind off of med school. I can call them about how to wash wool or how to buy car insurance. One friend in specific actually welcomes me to talk about my med school issues, and that's a great friend right there.

Definitely not last, I'm tremendously thankful for my friendship with my med school buddy, or just simply buddy, Jesse and his wife Jackie. They've taken care of me when I felt like absolute shit because of med school and when I don't feel like shit. Plus, I can fall asleep on their couch when I'm a lazy bastard to walk 2 minutes back to my apartment.

It might not always be awesome every day, but I'm thankful to be where I am and with the best people I can think of and without those who I couldn't care less about. Thanks.

Question
Let's not focus on all the happy puppies moment. What "bad" thing are you actually thankful for? Why?

Thursday, November 17, 2011

#28: Oh Lawd

Dear Person Who Got 97FreakingPoint5% on the Pathology Exam,
What are you smoking? Because I want some of that. Have your people contact my people.

Sincerely,
I Can Pay You Handsomely

Sunday, November 13, 2011

#27: Dork Alert

Last night I played Risk, only the most awesome board game of all time. Throughout the entire game, instead of thinking about world domination, all I could think was, "How can I metastasize?" Teehehe.

Question
Have I gone off the deep end?