Hey y'all,
It's been awhile! This semester has been insanity. Here's why. I just finished almost two weeks of grueling tests...AND I'M GETTING MARRIED IN 8 DAYS! So my already non-existent spare time has been even more sparse! Because I'm a little bit out of it from the general craziness, I thought I'd fill you in on the things med school teaches us through block week.
THINGS AT WHICH MED SCHOOL HELPS YOU BE AN EXPERT:
1. How to strategically use dry shampoo and under-eye concealer to fool people into thinking you keep up with regular hygiene.
2. The merits and drawbacks of various white noise generators. Seriously, I have three that I regularly switch between based upon my mood and level of sleepiness.
3. Managing to control the tremor and heart palpitations from ingesting massive amounts of caffeine. And when I say control, I mean being in denial that you feel like your heart may just flat stop.
4. Being a real person with no sleep. Now this may not be totally true, because I tend to binge and get like 10 hours on the days between our tests. But on test night, I'm doing good to get 3. Mostly because of the aforementioned massive caffeine ingestion which doesn't allow me to turn my brain off. But the next day, I'm at school before the sun's up, mostly out of pure terror that I'll fail.
5. The ability to sit in one spot for 12 hours. Not kidding. I think I have decubitus ulcers. Ok, I'm kidding about that.
6. Surviving on meals with no nutritional value. Here's a sample of full meals I ate this week: Couscous and grapes. Asparagus and an orange. A Mr. Goodbar. 7 Ritz crackers and some rice pudding. All of course accompanied by a Diet Coke.
THINGS FOR WHICH MED SCHOOL DOES NOT PREPARE YOU AT ALL:
1. Being a doctor.
jk.
Mostly.
Toodle-oo, y'all!
