i am enough.

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Via Dazzie D.

I’m not sure if it’s possible, when starting an email out, “With all due respect,” for the recipient to feel that you do, in fact, respect them. That being said, I’m not sure if I care. It’s hard to respect bureaucracy, particularly when they give off every impression that their job description includes putting up roadblocks to your personal happiness and professional success. Then again, the phrase does indicate that all “due” respect is given; it does not specify precisely how much respect is, in fact, due. 

(via rosa--sparks)

i’ve been pretty hermitted up trying my best to study my face off. every day, every hour, seems like a new struggle, but in some weird way i’m kind of enjoying it. 

i really hope i am able to slay this beast. i motivate myself with thinking about how good that sense of accomplishment will feel. like in that shitty part of a run, when your mind tells your body that it should just quit because running is hard, but then, if you’re able to get past it, you find that beauty that only exists in that space, in a body in motion, muscles tired but strong, heart beat fast but steady, lungs expanding and contracting like a billow blowing air on a fire. 

we have pediatrics surgery tomorrow, which means i need to actually leave my house. lame. i mean, cool, but also, lame. 

holysoul:

Otis Redding I’m Coming Home

I am so excited right now I can’t even handle it. I just got approved for a hematology/oncology rotation in San Francisco. I’ll now officially be spending 2 months of next year working in hospitals within driving distance from my family. The jury is still out on the one I want most of all (fingers crossed!!) but still, I’m coming home. :]

Today was an okay day.

In most ways it was a good day, but studying is still going slowly, so that made it just okay.

Tomorrow is a new day, and I hope that it will be even better. 

I can feel my gears starting to turn; the rust flaking off, the heavy cogs creaking against one another, tired from non-use, but turning nonetheless. 

I want to be finished, but I realized, with some help, that I was keeping all of my eyes on the prize, and not enough on the actual learning. 

I’m dusting off my thinking cap.

I’m trying to reform all but forgotten habits. New neural pathways. 

I’m finally reveling in the understanding instead of bemoaning the weight of it all. 

(via tiportiff)

this woman giving a kaplan immunology lecture just likened macrophages to the incredible hulk.

i think, a little bit, i just fell in love with her.

The absurdity of medical mnemonics will never cease to amuse me.

• Ordinarily, Careless Crappers Are Also Frivolous About Urination
• Oh, Oh, Oh, To Touch And Feel Vagina, Good Vagina, Ah Heaven
• Some Say Money Matters But My Brother Says Big Brains Matter More
• CHIMPANZEES may have Hypercalcemia
• if you GET SMASHED you might wind up with Acute Pancreatitis

GPOY - oh-mai-gawd-you-guise-practice-tests-are-so-much-fun-i-am-so-excited-i-get-to-spend-the-next-few-months-doing-more-and-more-and-more-of-them-and-then-i-get-to-pay-ridiculous-amounts-of-money-to-go-sit-in-a-cubicle-and-take-an-8-hour-exam-seriously-my-life-is-just-so-exciting-i-can’t-bear-it edition.

one more year. one. more. year.

Dear Students,

As you may know, the university sent out an announcement last week advising that a pick-up point for security kits has been established at the university. Some of you asked if this applied to our students. I wrote to both the the university security department and to the university’s Director-General seeking guidance, and I paraphrase below the reply I received:

The pick-up points are to allow citizens to upgrade the security kits they’ve had since the 1990 Gulf War. Originally, the old kits were picked up from peoples’ homes but the Home Front has now returned to the method of centralized pick-up points. This is not an emergency, nor it is hasty organization in preparations for expected security events. The distribution is being done for all citizens and the Home Front is doing it by region as they only have kits for 60% of the country’s population. The Home Front, at this point has no plan to supply kits to non-residents and tourists, but if the security situation changes, they will find a solution for this population.

We will of course update you accordingly.

I Believe In Your Victory by This Will Destroy You

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I’ve started a new study group with a couple of ladies in my class. We’ve got mountains ahead of us, but we’re climbing together. This time. One of them sent this song to the group. She believes in our victory. We believe in hers. Together we will not only climb mountains; we will move them.