We'll have to wait until 01/2009 to learn its significance.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Dharma Initiative Spotted at NYMC!
Just because this drain in the ladies' room has an oddly familiar shape:
We'll have to wait until 01/2009 to learn its significance.
We'll have to wait until 01/2009 to learn its significance.
Time Off for Good Behavior
There are three weeks between our histo final and the beginning of physio/biochem. Three delicious weeks where our only responsibility is a two-hour biostat class once a week.
The first weekend I visited my college and saw a show put on by my old juggling club.
Silly silly folk.
I also went to my first Knicks game! I've always been a Spurs fan, but it doesn't hurt to show some regional pride.
Of course there's still lots to do-med school apps to finish (still! how?!), a research paper to write, and our master's thesis to begin. The thesis is basically a literature review, and the popular choice seems to be to write it on some subject you've researched in the past. Which suggests that I should read up on diabetic retinopathy.
The first weekend I visited my college and saw a show put on by my old juggling club.
Silly silly folk.I also went to my first Knicks game! I've always been a Spurs fan, but it doesn't hurt to show some regional pride.
Of course there's still lots to do-med school apps to finish (still! how?!), a research paper to write, and our master's thesis to begin. The thesis is basically a literature review, and the popular choice seems to be to write it on some subject you've researched in the past. Which suggests that I should read up on diabetic retinopathy.
The End of Histo
Nov. 4th was our third midterm for histo. Luckily it finished in plenty of time for me to drive around and find my sketchy sketchy polling station.
What's worse is my station was at an address completely different from the one on my voter registration card. Conspiracy theorists ENGAGE!
As I said, the next morning I received my acceptance email from UTSA (now in my 326th hour of celebration). The only downside of that email was that it made it almost impossible to study for the histo final, which we took just three days after the midterm.
The final for histo is the histology mini-board. These are small (2.5 hours, ~120 questions) standardized tests on one subject. It's very difficult to study for, because you have a ton of material and you (and your instructors) have no idea what the test will focus on. Last year's solitary AMP student said that those who studied and those that didn't performed basically the same. I wound up just perusing my notes from throughout the trimester and going through my PreTest. We haven't received our grades yet, and the AMPs are getting nervous.
What's worse is my station was at an address completely different from the one on my voter registration card. Conspiracy theorists ENGAGE!As I said, the next morning I received my acceptance email from UTSA (now in my 326th hour of celebration). The only downside of that email was that it made it almost impossible to study for the histo final, which we took just three days after the midterm.
The final for histo is the histology mini-board. These are small (2.5 hours, ~120 questions) standardized tests on one subject. It's very difficult to study for, because you have a ton of material and you (and your instructors) have no idea what the test will focus on. Last year's solitary AMP student said that those who studied and those that didn't performed basically the same. I wound up just perusing my notes from throughout the trimester and going through my PreTest. We haven't received our grades yet, and the AMPs are getting nervous.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
More Project Sunshine
The weekend before Halloween Project Sunshine organized a party for some children outpatients of Westchester Children's Hospital.
It was incredibly fun. There were ~15 kids in their sweet costumes, Indiana Joneses were dueling with their whips, and the littler kids were just running around yelling and playing with the decorations. We had set up arts and crafts, musical chairs with spooky music, and a toilet paper mummy race. SO MUCH FUN. There were lots of yummy treats, and since the party was for kids with PKU they were all protein-free. Cookies sans protein are surprisingly good.
Next month Project Sunshine will be visiting children while they're receiving chemo, which can take all day. There'll be books to read to them but I'm hoping I can sneak my laptop in. Maybe someone will want to watch a movie or catch up on 30 Rock.
It was incredibly fun. There were ~15 kids in their sweet costumes, Indiana Joneses were dueling with their whips, and the littler kids were just running around yelling and playing with the decorations. We had set up arts and crafts, musical chairs with spooky music, and a toilet paper mummy race. SO MUCH FUN. There were lots of yummy treats, and since the party was for kids with PKU they were all protein-free. Cookies sans protein are surprisingly good.Next month Project Sunshine will be visiting children while they're receiving chemo, which can take all day. There'll be books to read to them but I'm hoping I can sneak my laptop in. Maybe someone will want to watch a movie or catch up on 30 Rock.
First-years' Team Name: Cremasters
10/23 was probably the year's most action-packed day at NYMC. Every year there is a powderpuff flag-football game between first- and second-year women. It is taken very seriously.
The game was well attended by students, faculty, and male cheerleaders. The second years won, which is good, because if I'm a first year here next year I want to be playing a team that has already tasted defeat.
This took place on the same day as the AMP student's first biostatistics midterm. It was a little more tricky than we wanted it to be but we all did well. I think we're all pretty much acing biostat, as advertised.
Immediately after the midterm was the wild 'n crazy Halloween party in the cafeteria. I had a 5-minute costume on, but there were some real doozies. One guy came as "a dude taking a shower," some of my AMP friends were Ken and Ryu from Street Fighter, but my favorite costume was these guys:
The game was well attended by students, faculty, and male cheerleaders. The second years won, which is good, because if I'm a first year here next year I want to be playing a team that has already tasted defeat.
This took place on the same day as the AMP student's first biostatistics midterm. It was a little more tricky than we wanted it to be but we all did well. I think we're all pretty much acing biostat, as advertised.
Immediately after the midterm was the wild 'n crazy Halloween party in the cafeteria. I had a 5-minute costume on, but there were some real doozies. One guy came as "a dude taking a shower," some of my AMP friends were Ken and Ryu from Street Fighter, but my favorite costume was these guys:
Aaaaaand we're back
It's been a rough few weeks but I've kept track of all of the New York Med goodness. I'll retroactively update on everything, but the most exciting news was my acceptance at University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio! I got the email ~20 minutes after I read the election results, so it was a pretty exciting morning.
I also have an interview at Emory in a few weeks. They're both great schools, but I'm really hoping to get in NYMC. Too bad they don't interview the AMP students until March.
I also have an interview at Emory in a few weeks. They're both great schools, but I'm really hoping to get in NYMC. Too bad they don't interview the AMP students until March.
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