Post Gobble Day Studying

Sorry for the lack of updates, have been having a roller coaster of emotions the past 3 weeks. 2 quizzes and 1 exam plus practical. I'm slightly behind in my readings for physiology so that's what I'm doing now.

I had Thanksgiving dinner at home with my roommate, his girlfriend and son. We bought some stuff and cooked stuff and it was overall really delicious. Even though we bought most of our meal, prep and cleanup took A LOT longer than actually eating the darn meal. I think everyone should seriously consider industrial autoclaves...er I mean dishwashers that can fit multiple sets of china without having to think to load the darn thing...in addition to walk-in fridges and stoves that span 8x2 spacious burners with separately controlled ovens and a sink that you could do laps in.

Anyway, hope you all had a good turkey day. Last 3 week stretch before I can retire in peace by the seaside in southern italy...oops, wrong timing sorry. I fly back on the 20th, I hope to see most of you in December before ya'll leave for break or in the New Year.

it is COLD!

It's cold here...like almost freezing

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Sorry for the lack of updates recently, life just isn't that interesting around exam times and the refractory period afterwards. We partied it up Monday night last week after exams. Did you know that bar's are empty on Monday nights? Ya it was pretty nice...no shoving people out of the way to get to the bar, no screaming like it's the trading floor of wall street to order drinks! It was our very own private bar.




Evil-looking pumpkin at coffee shop:

I went to talk to my advisor a couple of days ago and he was really encouraging aside from telling me that his Neuroscience course in spring is THE hardest of all first year med school courses. He said I had a good chance of getting in next fall because of my grades and MCAT score and my application seemed good. I felt pretty good afterwards...I'm really glad I have a great advisor...and a shoe-in for an A come spring :D

Anyway the meeting took place at Drexel's College of Medicine campus and I took a pic of the front of it...the place was smallish...I guess you don't need that much space for 1000ish students

They colored the Love Park fountain blue yesterday...and it's been raining...it it's not raining then it's so humid that everything stays wet the WHOLE day. So miserable. I've only ridden the bike once in 4 or 5 weeks, I feel a little more winter padding around my one pack and I'm growing a badonkadonk.

Phillies World Series Champions Parade day

Geebus, has it been less than a week since last Friday?!?! It seems like a long time. I had my last exam on Monday morning and the Sunday night before I went a little nuts. It was part panic and part exhaustion from a full-on non-stop thinking parade since the previous weekend. Physio was by far the hardest exam, we've got questions with multiple correct answers, only language separates the correct and incorrect. Yep, there were many of us that day who erased first choices, picked a second choice, reerased, repicked the first choice, then reerased again and repicked another choice. It was pretty bad.

Anyway, I got to the above thinking because I was trying to remember when the Phillies World Champions parade was, last friday or the friday before last. So it was last friday. Here are pics...it was a little NUTS.

The colored the Love Park fountain green for the Phillies Phanatic. Posing in front of LOVE and the fountain....there was a line to pose there, yes it was that crowded!

Hey wheres the O?
mmm green water, that can't be healthy.

Phillies Phreak

By the way, these were taken after a microanatomy practical and written exam...kinda relieved after finishing 2 exams so far. One more to go!

The parade route was PACKED! We tried to get to the edge of the street, at some point it became a solid wall of people. And people behind us were still pushing for us to move forward, it was crushing! People are so pushy, maybe they thought we just liked casually holding up the line eh?


That glass thing people are standing on, it covers escalators that go down to the subway. I don't think it was designed to hold that many Phans??!?!

People were at the top of the towers of city hall and on the ledges outside of the windows on the upper floors.

More pretty bikes, the bike messenger brigade did the smart thing and stayed the heck away from all the commotion a few blocks away!

People got hurt, some guy pulled a machete on some people who were standing on his car. The guy turned out to be manning a food stand and while he was wielding his mighty machete, people were looting his stand. It was pretty sad...and all this happened under a "Pledge to do no Violence" banner. This guy seemed really hurt, I don't know why. There was a mom who lost two of her kids! So sad, hope she found them.


There was a streeker on top of the glass cover thing.

The Wolfman visited us not with infectious bites from his sharp teeth but with sweet sweet candy from Rite Aid while we were studying. Yep we all spent Halloween studying...it sucked so bad. You could smell the fun in the air...but we were stuck in the library studying our butts off for the hardest exam yet.
Super boring physio review.

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I have one more exam monday morning, it's supposed to be a KILLER, literally, it kills kids' hopes for medical school! It was bad last year I've heard. It's physiology, which can be killer and sometimes harder than biochemistry because the topics are so varied covering biophysics to biochemical related stuff.

I have stuff to post, I just haven't had the chance to edit the photos yet...

...and I did well on all of my exams so far.