January 17, 2007

  • A glimpse into insanity

    So since adding this little cluster maps doohickey to my site, i now have a slightly better idea of where my readership is coming from. I mean, xanga footprints is cool and all that, but there is something so neat in looking at a map and thinking "wow, people in japan, europe, and even canada have taken time out of their day to come read my site!"

    ...or possibly got confused and stopped in while looking for porn. Which admittely i have not done a lot of posts about lately. but scroll through the backlogs and indeed you shall find enough wacky porn to confuse many a would be google searcher.

    Hmm, so what is new? Well keeping the usmle step 1 countdown going. And erm..practicing on the qbank every night and i dont know if my computer is just mean to me, or if i have been getting stupider lately or what, but the last couple sessions have gone somewhat less than stellar in terms of my performance. How so, you say? Well, let me put it this way. I am concerned that one of these days one of my fellow students is going to see how poorly i am doing, shout "someone like you doesn't deserve depth perception!" and stab me in the eye.

    But i do have 5 months to study, so there is still hope of maintaing my binocular worldview.

    I have also learned the m2 secret...what is this secret you ask? DO NOT GO TO CLASS. I have begun skipping lectures with professors i do not feel are good. Now you may think to yourself, big deal, i have been doing that since college. Well here is the kicker...i am still waking up at the same time, but i am going somewhere to STUDY

    yes, i know you can all point and shout lol nerd now.

    Part of the reason for this is that some classes, such as ICM are just utterly useless. Here's a thought, administration...how about in our intro to clinical med class, you actually teach us clinical skills designed to prepare us for 3rd year, rather than going over random cases and having us write out what we would ask the patient on the following day. i assure you, I understood the SOAP note format after one preceptorship visit, and if i did not, i will learn it very quickly by trial and error third year. So help me, the way this class is structured second year, i feel like i should be handing in my assignments written in crayon, with drawings of me as a doctor asking a patient, who IS you?

    *sigh*

    infarct(v): from the latin, infarcere; to
    stuff

    examples:
    i just finished dinner, and boy am i infarcted!
    he
    infarcted her like a xmas stocking
    Pass the cranberry sauce and infarction,
    please

    Do you people SEE what this studying is doing to my smart making muscle?

    -J

Comments (4)

  • I'm a little late on the uptake, but....

    That is definitely the M2 secret.  NEVER GO TO CLASS.  I went for good reviews or when Szanto was teaching.  I also went to all the clinical neuro classes because I'm in deep love with Sierles.  I rarely went to anything else after January once I figured it out.  And I did great that year, too, so I can testify it's really totally unnecessary.  ICM is the worst, but I do know they're restructuring the entire thing.  But it's completely useless for us.  I'd also maybe go to any "clinical correlation" shit lectures because those notes tend to suck, and I always underestimated their questions on the test.  I got a B in micro solely because of Cannady's lecture on UTIs.  Glimpsed at it, thought no biggie, missed NINE questions, brought me down to a B, and the rest is history.  Anyway.  That's my advice for what it's worth.  M2 class is optional in my view.

  • (points at  Josh) LOL nerd now!

  • Welcome to the no class club!  When I stopped going to class, my quality of life and my grades both went up, so I am a proponent of skipping that which is useless. 

  • I am SO going to copy your cluster thing, awesome!  But why is there no dot on Florida???  hhmmmmm

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