my week is almost over!! i've been working like a madwoman so that I wouldn't feel as guilty about my vacation starting on Friday. I'm SO ready to par-tay! After giving four talks and lots of scientific failures, just ready to forget about it for a few days.
it's so bad, I'm feeling a little bit of Jersey Boys withdrawal. Going to check out the broadway cast next week, along with my usual marathon of broadway (i know you're excited, sarah. get pumped. and be prepared.). It's going to be weird to compare the two casts.
i got my hair cut today. i thought my bangs were a bit long while she was cutting them, b/c i hate cutting them myself (they always look funky) so I asked to have them shorter, and now they look too short! almost dumb and dumber short. ALMOST. hopefully they'll grow by friday. ;) it'll teach me not to open my mouth next time. i admit i know very little about hair.
my classmates are buzzing with anticipation for match day. i can't imagine being in the middle of that right now - i mean, being LOCKED into a spot and a location for the next few years of my life. oh wait, that's me now. ;)
coffee ice cream in my freezer. yum.
Showing posts with label med school life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label med school life. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
weekend
how come the past few days seem like an extended weekend? i saw friends every day, which is such a treat since a lot of my med school classmates are interviewing, on away rotations, or working hard (ok, only one is working hard...)
taking the day off tomorrow to interview potential MD/PhD-ers. it'll be a nice break, things in lab have been the equivalent of running into a wall. over and over again. it'll be nice to take a break.
watching julie taymor's "The Magic Flute" put on by the Met. it's a visually stunning spectacle, with julie taymor's famous puppets. I'm so impressed with the quality of the Met opera singers. Vocal standouts in this show are Matthew Polenzani as Tamino and Erika Miklósa as the Queen of the Night. she just sang the famous Queen of the Night aria - her precision, speed, and ease of performance is truly amazing. it's hard to make such a trite piece of music, fresh and exciting. wow. Nathan Gunn is currently stealing the show tho; he is a great performer, as Papageno.
how come the past few days seem like an extended weekend? i saw friends every day, which is such a treat since a lot of my med school classmates are interviewing, on away rotations, or working hard (ok, only one is working hard...)
taking the day off tomorrow to interview potential MD/PhD-ers. it'll be a nice break, things in lab have been the equivalent of running into a wall. over and over again. it'll be nice to take a break.
watching julie taymor's "The Magic Flute" put on by the Met. it's a visually stunning spectacle, with julie taymor's famous puppets. I'm so impressed with the quality of the Met opera singers. Vocal standouts in this show are Matthew Polenzani as Tamino and Erika Miklósa as the Queen of the Night. she just sang the famous Queen of the Night aria - her precision, speed, and ease of performance is truly amazing. it's hard to make such a trite piece of music, fresh and exciting. wow. Nathan Gunn is currently stealing the show tho; he is a great performer, as Papageno.
Thursday, October 26, 2006
past and future
i met up with some fellow MD/PhD-ers today, who are eighth years in the program. Eighth... that's a long time to be anywhere. they were talking about how their fellow classmates, who they started med school with, are now their attendings (doctors) in the hospital who are earning $300,000 a year. How depressing. Am I going to be like them in four more years?
I have to say tho, the past three years have passed fairly quickly. It feels like it's been fast, but also feels like I've been here forever. i hope the next 3-4 yrs will pass by quickly as well.
going back to stanford this past weekend was really good. i talked to my senior yr roommate on the phone today, and it was good just reminiscing about the times we used to pull all nighters after we picked the locks in the cafeteria (it's a great place to study!) and to talk about the men we crushed on, or crushed on us. ^^ i took pictures of our senior year dorm - we got really unlucky in the housing lottery and ended up basically in a dorm full of freshmen, who were partying all night long while we old seniors were getting ready to go to bed at 9 pm on a friday night. :) looking back on pictures, i forgot how ghetto our room was! so many memories there. that was a great year.
walking around campus, i was really struck most by how naive i was when i attended here - i was amazed to be at such a wonderful place, but at the same time i feel like i took a lot of things for granted. it's like living in the moment, yet looking back and wishing you had lived more in the moment, so that memories would be more vibrant, more colorful, and more real.
our corner room on the second floor! the current residents still kept the closets in the same place - liz and i have a feeling that no one's moved the closets since we moved them five years ago.
we paid $35,000 a year to live in a place like this?!?
i met up with some fellow MD/PhD-ers today, who are eighth years in the program. Eighth... that's a long time to be anywhere. they were talking about how their fellow classmates, who they started med school with, are now their attendings (doctors) in the hospital who are earning $300,000 a year. How depressing. Am I going to be like them in four more years?
I have to say tho, the past three years have passed fairly quickly. It feels like it's been fast, but also feels like I've been here forever. i hope the next 3-4 yrs will pass by quickly as well.
going back to stanford this past weekend was really good. i talked to my senior yr roommate on the phone today, and it was good just reminiscing about the times we used to pull all nighters after we picked the locks in the cafeteria (it's a great place to study!) and to talk about the men we crushed on, or crushed on us. ^^ i took pictures of our senior year dorm - we got really unlucky in the housing lottery and ended up basically in a dorm full of freshmen, who were partying all night long while we old seniors were getting ready to go to bed at 9 pm on a friday night. :) looking back on pictures, i forgot how ghetto our room was! so many memories there. that was a great year.
walking around campus, i was really struck most by how naive i was when i attended here - i was amazed to be at such a wonderful place, but at the same time i feel like i took a lot of things for granted. it's like living in the moment, yet looking back and wishing you had lived more in the moment, so that memories would be more vibrant, more colorful, and more real.
our corner room on the second floor! the current residents still kept the closets in the same place - liz and i have a feeling that no one's moved the closets since we moved them five years ago.
we paid $35,000 a year to live in a place like this?!?
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