Mexico Medical Student |

Ah, I can’t believe the day has arrived! The most intense course of the semester is finally over! Actually, that was yesterday, but I’m just recovering sleep enough to write about it today (again, sorry for the post lapse) not just because of studying, but because we had a class party last night and hoooooo boy, was I plowed. It was a great time. Unfortunately, I also had my clinical exam final today, and I’m happy to say I aced it in spite of deficiencies in sleep, study, and sanity. (Regarding the party, since I’m a class officer I had to be there anyway, so I might as well have had fun)

I especially liked seeing people outside of class, particularly those that hardly speak or interact with others really just let go and have fun. There were no real “incidents” or things that soured the evening as a group, and the location was quite nice. I put together a slideshow of pictures attained by many in the class which ran in the background for most of the night; it was quite special to see faces in person and on the screen, their reactions, etc. Putting it together, I did notice that certain people seemed to be in a LOT of the images, not because there was a disproportionate submissions but because these people are seemingly everywhere, socially. It’s a bit of a paradox getting into a social crowd because invitations, etc. come from hanging out with people, but you had to have been socializing with them in the first place. I am not interested in attending “all the parties” anyway (way past that point in my life), but I do want to up my social presence in the future, not only to expand my circle of friends to do things with, but there’s something really therapeutic about blowing off steam with people that you know firsthand are dealing with the same shit you’re dealing with, that you don’t have to explain certain things to, etc.

As for physiology, we’ll get the grades sometime this week, I hope. I think there were serious omissions on the final (how can you have almost 100 MQ questions on a physiology final with NOT A SINGLE question about renin/angiotensin/JGA?? Aldosterone was well-represented, but still…), but I don’t think it was unfair or problematic. It was however, LONG, taking almost 3 hours to finish. There were WAY too many calculation questions for my taste. Thankfully, now that this class is done, I won’t have to deal with mundane questions such as ‘A solution of xx mM NaCl, xx mM KHCO3, blah blah is added intravenously to a 70kg patient who has lost n liters of water through excessive sweating with a blood osmolarity of 325 mOsm. Calculate the number of liters of solution required….” Blech. It’s not the math, it’s not the concepts, it’s the tedium of it all. No more. Yay!