The end is nigh

The end is indeed nigh.

In just a few more short weeks, I'll have been done with pathology, and 50% done with second year of medical school. A number of upper classmates mentioned that at the end of this term, you'll like a mini-doctor. For whatever reason, that feeling hasn't hit me yet.

Maybe it the lack of putting theoretical knowledge to practical use. While I understand how and why things go wrong, as well as what it'll look like when it does, I can't help but feel incomplete without the knowledge of what to do about it.

I think it's going to take watching some House, M.D. episodes to start feeling like I know my stuff.

Well, Paget's disease won't learn itself. Adios.

Freedom, sandblast, scuba diving, and work piling up

So, midterms are finally over last week. I did OK in physiology, though not as good as I would have liked. A in both immunology and neuroscience. Some simple silly mistakes, but I suppose an A is an A, and the main point is learning from my mistakes.

Feels good to be free from studying, if just for a few days. Almost didn't know what to do with myself the days after. So much free time without having to study, feels great, but somewhat oddly disturbing.

Sandblast, alas, is like drinking on the beach with free alcohol. Naturally, it was great. Didn't sprain my ankle this time around, so about 100% better than last time.

Finally going to get scuba diving done, with people buying the books and confined dives scheduled. At the same time, more work is already piling on. Having gone through a lot of respiratory physiology, as well as a number of motor pathways, meaning that I will definitely going have to study quite hard to make up time away from diving.

But hey! 7 weeks until I will get started on summer Asia trip! I'm so excited. Out of my skin!

The most expensive apricot I've ever bought

So, after a long, long hiatus, I've decided that I should really start blogging again. So here goes.

Today is thursday. Which means, the biggest supermarket (that's the closest to campus), IGA, gets their weekly shipment. Thus, an on rush of students are going to IGA to, well, buy out the entire store. I've literally not seen milk for the better part of a month, until I decided to start shopping on thursdays.

As Grenada is an island, it means most, if not all food are imported, especially when you want to eat processed food that is so readily available back at home. And, I also like a bigger selection of fruits, besides the standard mango, starfruit etc. And, alas, this brings me to my point. I've bought the most expensive apricot in my life. @ ~$48ECD per pound, my tiny little apricot came to a whopping $11ECDs. Yep, I spend close to $5CDN on a fruit.

What has this taught me?

I have expensive tastes.