Medical school is not so bad, but somewhere between having two blocks at once and then beginning our first systems block I lost the time to do anything besides class and sleeping. Well, there was some eating in there and then I had to concentrate all of my relaxing into half the normal time. Things are winding down though, and in a mere 3 weeks I will no longer be a first year medical student. I will be an infinitely wiser second year student who has figured out the most effective way to study so as to have maximal do-whatever-I-want time. I also think I should try to write a lot more because it was brought to my attention that there are several medical students out there with blogs that are much more famous than mine. And it made me ask myself, why not me? I then decided it may have to do something with the fact that I am not type-A and I don't write enough about studying to be relevant to other students or hopefuls wanting to know what life is really like as a medical student. I say, everyone should be reading my blog to see what life could be like if you stay laid back in the midst of learning more than anyone ever should in minimal amounts of time. Or it could have something to do with the sporadic nature of my entries. Whatever, I should be famous on the internet for being awesome.
So I want to tell everyone a secret. I failed an exam. I know. It's okay though because I rocked the next two and now am easily passing. What happened is a lot of not awesome things and then blood coming out of where it should not have been and then I missed 30 hours of lecture (out of the 36 covered on the exam) and I only missed passing by two questions. So I was really impressed with myself. But then again, I am easily impressed. Especially by myself because I want to like me so I cut myself a lot of slack I may not give to others. Then I had to work double hard to get totally caught up and now I have rocked the two most recent exams and am easily passing my classes. I only shared that story because it is my albatross. I feel so free now. I also plan to use it as an excuse for not writing because I was too busy trying to not have issues and then too busy catching up. But now the year is winding down and I would have to get below a 50% on the final to fail and do better than perfect to honor, so I am just relaxing and learning about kidneys against my will. I have actually decided I have learned most things against my will. It really isn't fair to me.
One of the things I have done, now that I am relaxing until summer, is sign up to help write a skit for the orientation video for next year's class. The skit is called "Hooker Doctor" and it is very close to whatever you are thinking at the moment. I didn't come up with the idea, my brother did. And my husband wrote a rough screen play and the actors improved as much as possible. I guess that means I didn't write a skit at all, but I am still getting a lot of kudos for my almost non-existent contribution. So anyway, the filming ended with five of us on Colfax, one dressed as a hooker trying to pick up random men as they walked by. As much as I would like to not explain further I feel it is probably warranted. The skit is to help answer the question, "How do you plan to pay off loans?" There are a few clips of students seriously answering the question and then the last one fades into our skit. It opens with her on the side of the road dressed as a hooker and she picks up a man (one of our classmates, not her "pimp" that we found). She gets in the car and they drive off to an apartment where she leads him down the hallway to a door. She ties the gown over his eyes and leads him into a doctors office. She leaves him to put on a gown and he waits the customary 20 minutes for her to walk in as a doctor. She then performs a full physical and charges him $500 dollars. I am unclear on how she can get away with $500 for a basic physical, but I need to figure that out soon because I think those rates could help me finally afford a trip to Disneyland. Which reminds me; we were babysitting and took the kids bowling and the six year old as we walked out and next to three people smoking stated, "It smells like Disney out here." Maybe I don't want to go there.... Back to the skit, the classmates we got to star in it had no identifiable shame, which only made it better. I would continue to explain, but you'll have to see it to know the true hilarity and I don't want my rating upped to PG-13 in case there is ever a Doogie Howser reading my blog. Yes, I plan to continue with my delusion that I will someday be famous for my medical blog. So anyway, our hooker doctor was a bit of a method actress and spent her time walking the Colfax strip giving her rates to random men and strutting while beckoning to cars. The man who came up to talk to us initially wanted to just watch us film, but then decided he would like to be in our skit. So we now have footage of a random man screaming, "Where's my money?!!" and our hooker doctor screaming back at him. All in all it was the most amazing and hilarious day of my medical career so far.
Other than parading around a seedy area with a classmate dressed as a hooker I haven't done too much. I was on four soccer teams for most of the Spring, but one season just ended so I am sadly down to three. This past weekend I house/babysat for a friend. They have two children, one previously mentioned as claiming Disney smells like second hand smoke and a ten year old who is amazing at soccer. Over the weekend I never got a chance to even glance at anything school related and they forced me to get 120 stars for them on Mario Galaxy so they could play as Luigi. I would complain, but if I had a totally free weekend at home with nothing to study and no kids to babysit I would have probably done the same thing anyway. I just love me some Mario. I would consider giving up my career in medicine if Nintendo contacted me and offered me a job as one of their game testers. But with the semester winding down and all of this fun filming skits, it would be a hard decision.
