"Life sucks right now"

Back by popular demand, I have decided to finally write a second blog entry.

As my roommate just said: Life sucks right now. I would probably agree. So today was supposed to be a "day off." That is, we had our bioethics exam (basically, if you are going to perform physician-assisted-suicide, don't tell anyone; or just do it in Oregon or Washington) and did not have classes all day. Pretty much a "free day." Well, sir, in medical school, there are no free days.

Here's what I did, got up around 7:30 to study a little bit more for bioethics, went to the exam and somehow managed to decipher through all the legal craziness on the test (I really hated that class, but I think I managed an A), came home and studied the poop-shoot, as it is called in medical terminology, took a little nap because I was so tired from studying last night for bioethics, was woken up by my roomates to go to the gross anatomy lab, stuck my fingers and hands in the poop-shoot, flipped a couple dead people over to get a closer look at the poop-shoot from the inside out, came home and am now studying the surrounding area of the poop-shoot for lecture tomorrow.

Here's the deal: We're tiiiiired..... The semester is nearing it's halfway point and mid-terms are approaching. We all just got raped by the language and crazy verbose answers on the bioethics final, and we are just hanging on by the seat of our pants while the information just keeps coming at us.

Someone once described med school as eating a dozen pancakes a day, every day whether you like it or not. You just have to eat the pancakes, getting the material down any way possible. If you don't eat 10 pancakes today, you will have to eat 20 tomorrow. This is a pretty good analogy, but not quite right. A better analogy (spelling?) would be getting punched in the face everyday by your textbooks and trying to stay on your feet until the mid-term comes. If you fall down or get behind, you lose... big.

This is why I am writing the blog right now: We are tired and life sucks right now. I think what it comes down to is just that bioethics sucks and that final was really intellectually challenging and exhausting. I thought I was done with liberal arts classes? Please... no more!!! My brain is only programmed to handle science-related material right not... and forever.

On another note: I kicked butt on the Unified Quiz, which is just a quiz in all subjects to see if you are studying properly and how you are doing relative to your peers. Anatomy: 100%, Biochemistry: 100%, Histology: missed one question, but still got an A; Good news: I'll never forget what GFAP protein is ever again.

Well, I just realized that this entry is probably getting boring to read. It is getting boring to wright. Back to studying.

Also, I just realized I haven't put up any videos of the school or island. I'll get on that soon, I promise.