We have another exam on Monday. I can't believe that this semester will be over in about 5 weeks and I will be a second year medical student. When we started down here, I knew that we'd only have two or three weeks off between semesters for the first 20 months or so. I did not realize how tiring it would be. I knew it would be exhausting, but when you only get two weeks off and you spend the first week waiting for grades, you really don't get a break.
The mosquitoes are horrible right now. Apparently, I attract mosquitoes like a teeny-bobber pop-star attracts high school girls. I have an anti-itch liquid, "AfterBite: The Itch Erase" but it just perplexes me: why does ammonia make the itching stop? It does make the itching stop, only after making it sting. But it isn't on the exam, so I don't have the time to care right now!
I should get back to the books. If I keep taking a break, I'll try to jump in the ocean--it's a beautiful day!
"Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn." --Albert Einstein
Nicole, MD
I'm no longer an expatriate. I started my 3rd year of medical school in Miami and have finished my first set of medical boards, which I passed! I've been to the little island of Dominica and Miami. I completed my Family Medicine, OB/GYN and Internal Medicine clerkships while living in the beautiful city of Miami Beach, FL. I moved to New York City in the beginning of August 2011, passed my second set of boards and finished rotations in Astoria, Queens in December 2011. I have not been posting as much as I have been extremely busy. It is hard to believe that I finished medical school, landed a pediatrics residency and that I'm finally Nicole, M.D.
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