Mexico Medical Student |

Well, I did say I’d post about our hospital experience and such, but things are just too busy right now to compose a nicely written, yet succinct account. I just don’t have time or energy for all that editing (and a post like that needs lots of editing to not be 1) boring, and 2) too indulgent in revealing personal matters). When I got home last Thursday morning (midnight) and went to school later that same day, I attended the last and my only renal physiology lecture. Three days later was our partial exam, and I’m proud to say I got a solid “B.” I did do general reading while home, but no nose-to-the-grindstone studying until last weekend. A lifesaver of a study session happened on Saturday with some class friends that filled in a lot of gaps on what the lecturer considered important, as well as clarified some tips/hints that made things easier. Once again, I prove I work best (or at least most consistently) under pressure.

I never got out of the “B” range in physio in spite of more than adequate test prep in the beginning. It’s odd that my grades kinda curved upwards as the semester went on, even though the material got harder (at least to me) and the pressure was on. My final is on Monday, and I can’t study with any real zeal. I have a big problem looking over stuff that I kind of already know, since there’s a voice in my head that says, “Oh yeah, you know that.” On the surface it may seem like overconfidence, but it’s not; it’s more of a inattention that wants to move on with things that are “interesting,” not mundanely review things again for the third or fourth time (including the reviews for the tests earlier in the semester). But I have to, because even a cursory attempt at working sample MC questions shows that, as usual, the devil is in the details, not the broad concepts.

So, I will post more about baby and upload a few pictures very soon, but my focus has to be school, and this blog is about those school experiences and how they relate to my life. I need to focus on that, write more to help keep me sane, censor myself less, and keep the post rate up. If I can’t make a complete, published post in under 30 minutes and it’s not absolutely necessary to get out there, I need to move on.