It is Halloween, and the last day of October, so for the sake of posterity and not wanting to have gone an entire month without a blog post, I am writing today. This has been a most interesting week. First, I should mention that I am currently at Penn State! Yes! I'm sitting at a computer on the 4th floor of Paterno library. If I am at Penn State, why am I at the library, you ask? Well tomorrow, we have a test on this past week's material: Human Behavior. One would think that this stuff would be easy especially after Anatomy, but it is very dry and unnerving. So dry, in fact, that I'm close to ruling out Psychiatry as a future profession. And so unnerving that I'm pretty sure I already have a couple of psychiatric illnesses including but not limited to anxiety, bipolar II, and dementia.
Despite the stresses of Behavioral Week, we did try our best to have fun. On Saturday, I went to the Fall Festival (hayrides! pumpkins!) and on a shopping spree with Ananya. On Sunday, I finally ate out for the first time in months - Banana Leaf (Malaysian cuisine). Monday (when we got our grades), we celebrated the end of Anatomy. Tuesday, we did something. I forget what it was. Wednesday, we watched Silence of the Lambs. When I saw "we", I mean "they" referring to the other progs. I sat in a corner listening to music. I do not take scary movies very well. Thursday, we attempted to get into to a club dressed in Halloween costumes. Yesterday, we went to a tailgate before the PSU vs. Michigan football game and retired to Anita and Moksha's apartment for the rest of the day. In a moment of childhood regression, it was decided that we would watch "Diary of a Wimpy Kid". For my sake, Shutter Island was avoided. And today, while walking to the library with Anita, I felt like a Penn Stater again, walking along Shortlidge and Pollock and passing by the HUB, Davey, McAllister (math). It was lovely.
Anyway, once this weekend (and this stupid ICM test) is over, Biochem begins. And once again, I find myself on the brink of something new. Will it be chill (no more dissection, right)? Will it be stressful (probably)? Will it change my perspectives on medicine, life, and the universe as a whole? Gotta wait and see.
