A.W.A.L.

Since I have finished my first year of medical school, I have been A.W.A.L. here on my blog. Sorry about that! Honestly, things were quite busy (at least near the beginning) and then have slowed down so much that I barely have anything to blog about regarding my medical journey.

I will sum up my summer vacation so far. After partaying with fellow classmates to celebrate being 25% done medical school, I packed up and took an 11 hour road trip home. How nice was it to see my family and animals! Then I went out of town, visited my brother, went to an amusement park (as a last horrah) and then had surgery on June 2nd.

Since the surgery, I have laid around, being a slug, trying to rest and regain strength. Now I am stronger and do not need pain medication anymore, so this means that I can do some reading. I just finished a fiction novel for pleasure and now I am a quarter done my High Yield Biostatistics USMLE Review book. Although this is a board review book, I thought that keeping my mind active would help when I got back to school. Even if I don't remember any of it by the time boards actually come around next year, at least I will have heard about this stuff before and maybe it will come back more quickly than had I taken the entire summer off. In any event, doing this board review won't hurt me.

As I enter my second year of medical school, I have to start thinking about the board exams. Should I study as I go through my systems this upcoming year? First Aid? USMLERx? UW Qbank? Should I just 'learn' the information presented in class? So many questions. I am trying to research about ways that have worked for students in the past and still have a way to go before I finalize my attack during the school year. All I know is that I MUST rock the boards so that I can keep my options open. I have no idea what field of medicine I want to go into, so I must do well on the boards to prevent setting limitations on what is feasible for me in the future.

And now, I am going to start another fiction novel.

Ciao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!