EKG lab: After Dark

We don't have as many labs for physio as we did for histo, but they're much more entertaining.

Here Dr. Messina is testing the diving reflex of a classmate while he's hooked up to an EKG machine

We have less than a week until our next biochem/physio midterms and we're freaking out big time. Our first block midterms covered 12-15 lectures, but there will cover 60. I'm pretty sure these are not going to be my best grades at NYMC.

Last week we had both a blood drive and Student-Faculty bowling, a wonderful tradition where I learned Dr. Lerea is a secret bowling sleeper. I will treasure these happy memories as I try to memorize my face off.

Follies great and small

It was my birthday this week. After much ardent persuasion I got almost all of the AMP students to come out for ice cream at this awesome homemade sweet shop in Tarrytown.
Norm is giving us serious Face.

I was surprised so many people came because life has become Difficult. Everyone is spending so much time studying that they can't even afford to go to class, and half of the people in class are actually studying or reading scribes.

I guess there are some people with their act together. These must be the people responsible for Follies.

Follies is an annual sketch comedy concert put on by a mix of MS1s and 2s. All of the money from tickets ($3) went to the Children's Cancer Fund. I'd seen some of the videos from last year's performance so I had high expectations.
There were teacher impersonations, music videos, public service announcements, a cappella (NYMC's own Arrhythmias) and tons of "That's what she said"-style humor. When I walked out my face hurt from laughing so much.

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.

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:

Slow week

We had Exam II on 9/30, and only one day of classes since then. Most of us AMP students have been using this time to catch up on med school apps, and almost half have left town to visit friends and family.

I've spent the last two Thursday's at a friend's apartment watching The Office. We even dressed up in character for the season premiere (that's Dwight and Phyllis on the couch playing Guitar Hero). A few of us also went bowling at the White Plains AMF on Friday ($20 for two games, ouch).

We only have 3+ weeks until Histology is over, we begin Physiology AND Biochem, and my carefree lifestyle comes to an end. I forsee fewer visits to NYC, more QT in the library, and less (more?) drinking amongst the AMPs.

Biostatistics

I'm writing this during our 10-minute break in the middle of our 3-hour biostatistics class. I've never taken any kind of stat before and was too caught up in histo this week to read for this, so this class was way over my head within minutes. I gave up and started reading histo notes. Also, taking pictures of my classmates.

The girls in the program went to the local Cheesecake Factory last night for dessert and gossip. We had a lot of fun except for the massive, unlit construction on 287.