Second Year

Well it's been awhile since I wrote in things have drastically changed in this little universe of mine. My closest friends have moved on, but it was their time, my focus is more than ever school and what comes after this year. I have made some new friends but it's a bit harder, it is another learning experience in adaptation. The specific example has now escaped my mind but it's amazing how the past has prepared me for where I am today. The medical school landscape is constantly changing. I now welcome some of it because I now know that it shows me the way forward. As in each and every year, there are the new issues for this year, but they will be faced head on and gotten through. Second year is a totally new animal and I welcome it with arms wide open.

Messages from the past!

Hey out there, it's been awhile. It's so funny that when you least expect it you get the best surprises in your email. While life in this little medical universe is sometimes all encompassing, the joys of email or shall I say facebook surprises are the highlight of the day. Lately these surprises have me looking at just how far I've come, and where I may go...
So I bet you are wondering what the surprises are.... Oh I've got your curiosity on the rise, ok well a good friend from High school connected with me from high school, bored already huh? Somehow I got nominated for a facebook High School reunion committee which I promptly pulled myself off of, still bored? Well these are the little blips on my radar these days.
Funny though thought I would go to my 10 year reunion, but I'm in medical school so it's a no go at this point, and I could actually care less. Facebook messages are good little reminders that although I've lost touch with some of my friends along the way somehow we always end up connecting down the road, we will take different roads to get there. Along each stop I've made in I've had significant connections with people and they have withstood the test of these last ten years and they will still be there throughout the next few years.
It's about time for a change of scene around here again, a large part of what has become my KCOM family is leaving in a month or so, but with looking again at my past experiences I can see there is no need to worry, they too will cross paths with me again in the future and we will pick up if they had never left. My little universe is changing, but who ever thought I would be here? I know I'll keep in touch always with some of the old, I always do. Everyone needs the change and it opens up so many doors and paths to take in the future, it's amazing to think of the roads I can take to cross paths with old friends again. There are so many adventures to be had! Ten years ago I never thought I'd have driven 30 hours straight to visit friends on the other side of the country, or go to South Africa to visit a friend, or be in medical school in the middle of the midwest and make so many good friends.
It's amazing how such little things in life, are the exciting things these days in my little medical universe.

Conversation of the day

So, the daily conversations of medical students are very ridicuous. They range from an ever running commentary on the quality of the lecture that day, why the school can't buy more printers or at least print the latest notes, or to the ridiculous learned about that day or the more traditional who's with who from last night talk. Not to mention the logistics of some of what we learn about, come on out there- you can use your imagination and in any case some part of it will be true. It often is a little goofy because of the extreme lack of sleep that happens when you are in medical school. Today sparked a hearty laugh because as I sat doing histology lab and the conversation of the day was on foreskin, yes you heard it foreskin, there were plenty of male counterparts around, but I do have to say my female colleagues were doing all the talking. The funniest part was when someone described in detail her experience checking under the foreskin and not knowing what to do when his pubic hair got caught in it afterwards and pulling the hair out piece by piece. Only in medical school....

The beginning

If I'd only known what I was getting into when I started this process, it's been fun challenging and utterly dreadful at times, but don't we all crave a little drama in our lives. Trust me in this universe we all have enough to satisfy even the most dramatic person. In a very small town in the midwest I moved and my world completely changed. There are so many wonderful things that happen here each day and I do have to say that I can't fully describe them all to you. I think that the best way to understand the environment of 340 medical students in a town of 15,000 is to listen to the ridiculous conversations, antics and other things that happen here daily in my little medical universe.