What a Break

Today is my last day of March Break. It is kind of sad, but also signifies my final stretch of didactic work in medical school - which is the only reason I can keep going. Honestly, I am so over studying and am ready to go out and learn how to practice medicine! My break was filled with pharmacology. I made more than 400 flashcards online so that I can put them onto my iPod and flip through them 15 minutes each day for the rest of the semester. The sad thing is, that I still have a couple of sections left to put into flashcards. sigh. I will finish them up this week. But I quit for the rest of the day, I am going to go and make some doctored up beans, get stuff ready for a potato soup I am going to make tomorrow and then watch 24 on the Internet until I fall asleep. Sounds wonderful for my last evening of freedom for a very long time.

MARCH BREEEEEEEAK

Oh, it feels so nice to be off for a week. Although I am still stuck at school, it feels so wonderful to get rested up, relax and lounge around. Well, yesterday was the R&R day and today was the cleaning day. I cleaned my half of the room so that it is spick and span. I love it! Having a clean space makes me feel organized and in control. It makes me happy. I also did 5 loads of laundry and knitted for a couple of hours.

Speaking of knitting, I am starting to make a really neat afghan. It is going to be multi-coloured. At the rate it is going, it is going to need an epileptic warning to anybody who lays their eyes on it. Whoa! It is totally 'me' though- currently I have a hot yellow, bright pink, and a variegated green/blue skeins going. I randomly switch it up so that it is psychedelic. :)

I slept in today, so I am not very tired now, but am heading to bed anyway since I am going to start board studying tomorrow morning around 9:00am. Sigh. Studying does not sound that much fun, but I plan on studying 9-6pm, which gives me a decent amount of studying while still having my evenings off. It will be glorious to relax each evening. A far cry from the crazy hours I was putting in before break!

Well, I will post later on this week or sooner if I feel like it!

Holding on Until March Break

I am, as the title states, holding on for dear life until March break comes. I have no more classes and just a neurology exam on Friday morning and then FREEDOM for a couple of days! I am so excited. I would be more excited if I were able to go home and actually have a break, but alas, a couple of days off and a butt load of board studying will both do me good. It will feel great to finally get a start on my studying. I have been quite irregular on my board studying as I try to keep up with my course work.

So Busy and So Over Studying

Oh my goodness. Things are so busy right now, I feel like I can't keep up. Within one week I have a 22 lecture exam, practical exam, CPR certification, Neonatology lab (at the hospital), Gynaecology lab (in the clinic on an amazing person who lets us practice pelvic/breast exams on her). All this is above and beyond our regular 4 hours of lectures each day, elective courses, and laboratories. AAAAHHHHH!!!!!

Things also aren't very interesting right now: renal and ophthalmology are both VERY uninteresting subjects for myself. I will never be a nephrologist nor an opthalmalogist. EVER. Ewww. It is hard to stay focused because I just came off of OB/GYN and loved it so much that switching over to study something that is not interesting is quite difficult.

So, another thing crossed off my list of potential specialties: nephrology and opthamology. That's two steps closer to figuring out what I am gonna be when I 'grow-up'.

:)