Does planting seeds count as studying embryology?
I started school two weeks ago-actually three, but the first was a week of orientation. So two weeks of classes and we've covered genetics and gene expression, embryology, and a few other things. I wanted to get this blog started before school began, but obviously didn't. I've been figuring things out over these past few weeks, getting a sense of what medical school is all about, what is expected of me, when, where and why. This has been a dramatic change from my life over these past two years, the first of which was spent abroad on a Watson Fellowship working on community bridging projects in Peru, Spain and Morocco (check out my blog from that year at swimaroundtheworld.blogspot.com). This past year I was in medical school admissions purgatory, which wasn't all that bad considering I spent part of the year studying agriculture in Spain, and then after falling into a cosmic pond in Mexico the universe finally brought me and my longtime love Clara together.
My favorite tool is a pick-
It has been a very liberal two years of self made goals, responsibilities and schedules, and now the transition into medical school has occurred without me having a firm grasp on what I was transitioning into. I had a lot of ideas about what medical school was, and like many things in life, I didn't really know what I was getting myself into until I actually began. Two weeks in I can't say that I'm an expert, but at least I'm feeling really really good about this whole experience.
White Coat Ceremony
