The Heart of It All

I can assure you all that a giant sigh of relief and a weekend of nothing medical followed my completion of I2. Now that Inflammation and Immunity is slowly rotting, dead in the cold cold ground, we're moving on to a more meat-and-potatoes-esque med school module.

CardioPulm.

That's right, after 8 weeks of straight science, 4 weeks of genetics and cancer, and 4 weeks of I2, or as I like to call it: 16-weeks-of-occasionally-interesting-but-typically-dreadful-information-on-tiny-molecular/cellular-changes-in-your body (it rolls off the tongue), we're finally digging into an 8 weeks module that will be tiny molecular/cellular changes sprinkled with gross anatomy!

The holiday season splits this module right down the middle, with cardiology falling sooner and pulmonary falling later. The truly exciting part? (Note: I say exciting now and reserve the right to change it to ridiculous once we begin) We start cadaver lab when we get back in January! Woo!

So, in honor of our new module, I shall post one of the many slides we were told to memorize today. Get pumped!



Hah! Get it? Pumped...
Until next time.

What Think You I Take My Pen In Hand?

The Gen/Neo module currently dominates my calendar and all its time enclosed. So, in order to escape from its tedium and rote memorization, this post will instead focus on everything not medicine related. Specifically...

Things I Like More Than Gen/Neo:

-Pouring just the right amount of granola into a cup of yogurt so that it doesn't spill over when I mix it.

-Being able to "hide" the annoying status updates (such as "Farmville" and "MafiaWars") on Facebook.

-The chill an autumn evening's air leaves in your chest.

-Feeling completely content wandering through a book store, even when not buying anything.

-The 3rd or 4th bite of a really good apple, once you've really broken through the skin and can get a crisp chunk of it.

-Getting an unexpected package, letter, magazine, or item in the mail.

-Jason Sudeikis on SNL.

-Opening the door to the mail box and seeing anything there.

-Top 10 (or 20/25/30/50/100) lists of just about anything, but particularly things to do with books or movies.

-The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman.

-Getting a really good Sporcle game when the "random" button is clicked.

-Hyperlinking.

-Writing with a really nice pen.

-Coming up with (what I think are) clever tags for blog posts.

-Freshly baked chocolate chip cookies.

-Having a wonderful wife (not at all because she will make a few extra said cookies when she's making them for work).

-All of the backgrounds and photos of InterfaceLift.

-Hitting a crosswalk at just the right time so that you don't have to break stride.

-Getting more than 6 good songs in a row on Pandora.

-The Office.

-Reading.

-Finding a good excuse to not study.



Until next time.