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The First Two Weeks of Medical School

When I was an undergrad, I did not understand why we had to take the MCAT, or why medical schools looked for people with awesome G.P.A.’s. Now I do. Medical school is not for the light hearted, it is not for the lazy, it is not for the procrastinator, and it is not for the “I’ll just do enough to get by,” person.

I can honestly say that since my first day of school, and I am not exaggerating in anyway, I have studied. I have had 9 days of school. In those 9 days I have learned the muscles of the arm, forearm, back and neck. I have learn their insertions and origins and all the nerves that innervate them, I have learn what arteries supply these muscles, I have learn about different genetic diseases, I have learned about every type of tissue you have in your body, I have learn about your spine, and how a spinal tap is preformed, I have learn everything we need to know about DNA, I have learned how to recognize different tissues under the microscope, and I have learned the brachial plexis. This all in 9 days. I have cover what you cover in ones semester in 50 minutes. You dedicate your body and soul to this, and it will want it all. Leaving something until the next day will leave you way behind.

This is why they want good grades, and a good MCAT score. They want to know that you can apply yourself.

With this being said, I would rather be here than anywhere else in the world(except with my husband, whom I miss terribly). I am learning about the most wonderful treasure we as humanity have, the human body. When you go into the body, you are an explorer, and it will become your kingdom if you treat it right, and give it what it needs.

More to come….

Medical School Being An AUC Student

I arrived in the island of St. Martin August 28, 2009. The climate was really hot and humid, 360 square miles, half French half Dutch, and an ocean full of blue water. Everything you can get in America you can get here, but way more expensive. The night sky is a deep dark blue. The stars are very much visible, unlike San Diego where you are lucky if you get to see one. Over all this place is beautiful.

The people here all want to be doctors, but at the same time they are still young, so they drink, go out, and look for someone they can date this semester.

The only way to get food or anything, is by taking a bus or renting a car. The bus is a dollar and the rental is 27 dollars, so is not too bad.

There is 12 Casinos in the Dutch side, they are illegal in the French side so there is none there. Prostitution seems to be legal, and the night life is cheap.

The medical school itself is not very big. My class is compose of 195 students from Canada, and everywhere in the U.S.A.

Everyone here wants to be in the Dean’s List, everyone wants to be a doctor, and everyone is very nervous about the first day of school.

More to come

The “Power”

We are taught as little girls that we should look forward to the day when we get married. This infamous day will make you a princess, it will give you anything you have desired your entire life, you will have hundredths look at you and admire your very presence. The reality is that a wedding is not about you. It is about you and your partner. It is the first time that you and your partner will have to compromise, plan something big together, and hopefully come out triumphant.

We are given a “power” when we are born as women, to choose everything that has to do with decorations, colors, linens, dresses and so on. This “power” is given to women alone, and if you don’t have the “power” you are just this weirdo tom-boy girl, or a lesbian. Same thing goes with the boy, if the are born with this “power” then they are just gay. Where does this come from. I can tell you that I do not know anything about decorations, dresses, flowers, and all that stuff, hell I barely know how to walk in heals, and I am a full 22 year old grown woman.

It is when you realize that it is not your wedding, but our wedding that you will realize just how important this party is. You and your future husband will have the final say in anything that goes on in the wedding. He should be your go to person, not your mom or your sister, they can have and have had their own weddings, let this be about you and him.

This wedding is the first major compromise, you don’t have a “power,” and this is not your wedding. Let all that go, talk to your partner, listen to one another, after all this are the things that you will have to be doing for the rest of your life.

More to come

Wedding

Yesterday after I got off work me and Chrystian went to Michael’s. The mission was to find the party favors and the flower girl basket. We though having little bags with candy as party favors would turn out to be a cheap and cute idea. Little did I know I was going to end up spending 112 dollars on 108 little red bags, black m&m’s, white m&m’s, and 2 baskets. My heard hurt when I payed it, but when you do the math we are really spending a little over a dollar on each little baggy that we are going to give our guess, which is a cheap party favor.

I will post a picture of the bags once they are done. We are getting a silver pen which we will use to put C & G 8/1/09 on each little bag. The finished product should look very cool.

As for the flower girl basket I bought the cheapest basket I could find and I am going to rap it with white silky fabric, through in some black ribbon and we have a kick ass flower girl basket for under 6 dollars. I will post pictures of that too once is done.

More to come.

I Quit

Yesterday was the day I decided to tell my new boss that I was not going to stay beyon the month of July. I was so nervous. My hands were sweaty,  my heart was pounding out of my chest, I almost ran away before knocking on his door.

I told him I was leaving for personal reason, which is not a lie. It was really hard to do it, but I did it.

The wonderful thing is tha I feel like I took one step closer to medical school. Labs have been pulling me for a long time, is time to go for the medicine.

New job

I recently obtained a job at UCSD. The job is only part time and it has benefits, in other words is a great job. The people are great too, they even took me to lunch my first day.

The problem here is the fact that I need to quit next month. Why? Because I am going off to medical school. A guilt is settling over me, this lab took me in, is training me, they thought I would stay for a long time, a year maybe. It would be easier if they weren’t so nice.

Don’t get me wrong I am going to quit I have to, is just going to be hard

When You’re Down Turn it Around

The other day I began to think about what makes a person who they are. Part of it is pure genetics, but the other, your environment. The weird part is that you can expose two people to the same environment and get two completely different personalities (I think that is where genetics comes in).

So, after pondering that for about 30 minutes I made up a list of things people should think about when they feel really down.

1. It could be worst, yes it’s true. I mean think about it you could be dead.

2. What can I do to make this better, don’t give up.

3. What got me into this situation? Learn from your mistakes, if you don’t then you’re not growing.

That’s the main three things I thought about. Remember, sometimes we’re so bothered that you have to figure out the main problem. We might direct our worries else where or blame. Figure out your main objective and then fix it.

Edited by Cy Villaflores