After toting around my Genetics textbook everywhere for the last week, I’ve finally really started reading and studying. It’s going terribly slow as the material is dense and not very interesting to me. I’m trying to push all those negative “why do I need to know this” type questions out of my mind because it [...]
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still following the map
Posted in Academia, Life, Work, tagged career, finals, hospitals, medschool, nursing, pre-med, volunteering on December 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
let the right one in
Posted in Academia, Life, tagged Asia, books, culture, movies on November 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s good to have some quality movies back in my life. Tonight was a bit of girls’ night out for me and my roommate. I borrowed the car and drove us to Sunset Strip to watch Let the Right One In, a Swedish film depicting the relationship between a bullied boy and a vampire girl [...]
“You are too irrisistable.”
Posted in Academia, Life on October 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My limbs ache from dancing in heels. Even though I only stayed at the party until 12:30am, it took it’s toll on these legs that haven’t been to the gym since…well, it’s been a long time. It was a good party though. The Vegas theme didn’t really come through (hey slutty girls, Playboy bunnies are [...]
the downward spiral continues
Posted in Academia, Life, tagged Chinese, failure, literature, randome conversations on September 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If bad things do come in threes, I hope this morning was the last of the trifecta. It’s all I can handle for a while. After being evacuated while I was taking a shower and getting a C in microbiology, I took the Chinese placement exam this morning to see if I can pass into [...]
a room with a view
Posted in Academia, Life, Work, tagged dorm, failure, floor, new, school, training on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A new schoolyear has begun. I don’t know if it’s just been a while or maybe it’s just the contrast to the relative stillness of summer, but everything seems so lively and exciting. The freshmen energy is rubbing off on my dusty 3rd-year heart. It helps that I actually like my RA and floor, which [...]
end of quarter evals
Posted in Academia, Life, Work, tagged Academia, career, food, friends, home, relationships on September 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I need to seriously reassess my life.
Career/Academics
Besides fleeting desires to be an artist/zookeeper when I was about 4 years old, I’ve pretty much wanted to be a doctor. It never really occurred to me that I couldn’t do it or maybe that I wasn’t fit for this role. The only thing I could foresee stopping [...]
swallowed in the sea
Posted in Academia, Life, Work, tagged career, dream, experiment, failure, happiness, sc4, school, test on September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was going to blog about happiness since that’s what we’ve been discussing in Psych 10, but I’m not in the mood seeing as I just found out I failed my last midterm. Insert failure rant.
I also fell asleep during the psychology research experiment I was participating in. Hope I didn’t ruin the researcher’s results.
At [...]
fixed action sequence
Posted in Academia, Life, tagged apartments, blogs, magazines, moving, tests, weekend on August 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I am annoyed because I accidentally deleted the folder in my Bloglines containing all of the design blogs I subscribe to. I wanted to see if I could just delete the folder but not any of the feeds inside it, but that backfired. Isn’t the CANCEL button usually the blue one? Ugh, the dangers of [...]
UAG, UAA, UGA
Posted in Academia, Life, tagged EMRA, In Bruges, personality, rejection, school on August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Forgot to update that I was ultimately rejected from EMRA. While they “highly encourage re-applicants”, I will not be trying for the third time because I have nothing else to give. I did my best. Maybe in a year, if I’ve gained some more clinical experience and have raised my GPA. Let’s all hope so.
This [...]
Conceptual Fuck
Posted in Academia, Life, tagged books, medschool, relationships on August 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
New phrase I learned today from the lovely I Love Dick. I’ve only read 4 pages so far. Reminds me of White Oleander; maybe all books set in Los Angeles have to have that devestatingly empty feel.
As my MCAT test date creeps closer, I’m starting see the tip of the iceberg and fathom what lies [...]
