A week with no posts?! What a slacker!
This program is no joke. I’m loving it. I mean it’s crazy hard and I’m sure it’s only going to get crazier in the semester proper, but what an experience. My classmates get more interesting every day (in a good way), and slowly but surely I’m finding my stride with the studying. Some things are starting to stick anyway.
Zoe is precious as always, showing more and more personality every day. Tonight we went to Hermann Park again. It was such a beautiful, almost cool, night after the rain today, and she just marched all over the place, confident and sassy.
Biochem quiz and team based learning tomorrow, followed by physiology lecture, followed by anatomy lecture and lab… So this one is brief. Thursday we get to play doctor with a standardized patient for the first time, which will be a refreshing and motivating break from all this science. I love science just as much as the next med student, but I got into this mostly for the live human side.
To the studies I go.
This is so awesome! Reading about your adventures just brings a smile to my face
I am so glad you are enjoying it.
Way to go, Blake!
I’m excited to follow you through the whole thing and hear how it all works.
Have you ever read Final Exam by Pauline Chen? I’m reading it right now - it’s about how the medical profession deals with death and the dying. Quite interesting, and perhaps pertinent.
Because I’m sure you’ve got all kinds of extra free time for reading.
Thanks for reminding me that I CAN and WILL be fine running my booming business, being a mommy and wife, taking care of the house, and taking graphic art classes in the fall. Sometimes I think I might go crazy if someone told me I had to sit in a room and do nothing all day long
Good for you girl - you motivate me to be “all that I can be”!
Thank y’all for the encouragement!
I think as women with ambition, we become experts at juggling.
I’m glad you’re doing standardized patients already… makes the whole “doctor” thing start to feel real! Sounds like you’re doing great already. When does the “semester proper” start? You’ll be SO ahead of the curve after getting into the swing of things ahead of time!