In deep

Embryology II: Germination

I'm in deep. Medical school is for real, and I love it. Friends and family keep asking me how I'm doing, and my singular response has been that I'm doing, meaning that I'm always doing something. School is keeping me busy with a direct focus- learn. More than "learn", however, I'm trying to keep the focus on living well, and not on doing school.

To me, the difference between doing school and living well is the following: doing school infers a clear (and awaited) end. If you tried to translate this mentality to living well, it would sound, well, crazy. Right? You wouldn't wan't to be doing life so as to arrive at a clear (and awaited) end. This happens naturally, such is the nature of life and death, but the continuum between these two points is what I'm choosing to focus on.

This is where the independent learning happens: studying in the yurt

Confused? I'll clarify. I feel as through I've begun my career as a physician already, and while medical school is tough and I'm kept very busy, I'm choosing not to get stressed, because I don't want to live a life full of stress. I don't want to live a life where I'm consistently waiting for the real good times to begin. And with medical school, I don't want to feel as if it were just another struggle to survive before beginning my career, where life will be good. I have begun my career of constant and applied learning, and as I said earlier, it feels great.

A nice photo from a wedding in Seattle. That's Kelly and Willy, Bowdoin College friends, and more importantly, Potter Street Pirates