Thursday

There's something about thursdays. The weekend is so close you can almost feel it. Last weekend seems like ages ago. You are way behind in all of the studying you planned to do this week- although this happens pretty much every day, not just Thursdays- and in my case, you have the much dreaded biochemistry class.

Interestingly enough, it was not as unbearable as usual. Today the teacher was telling us about the importance of proteins in the body. I stopped counting hairs on the person in front of me- just kidding, I wasn't actually doing that- and I paid attention. For the first time probably in history, I understood and could imagine what he was saying. It was like a tiny youtube inside my head, inoperative for so many years, had finally begun its activity and played a little video of an aminoacid in the glucolysis cycle.

And now that I'm writing it down, and trying to make it sound more poetic than it actually was, I realize that is very, very cheesy. Forgive me: it's 11:30 pm.

Hours of sleep last night: 7 (win!)

Three weeks

It's now been three weeks since I began this crazy idea that is getting my degree in medicine.

A year later than I had planned. And that is why I am the Blissful Med Student: I know how lucky I am to be where I am. No matter how hard it is, I have experience how much harder it is not to do it.

Three weeks of medicine. And so many more to come.

I look forward to laughing at my experiences on this blog. I look forward to frustration and stress when I feel like I don't have enough time to do it all. I look forward to passing milestones, to passing exams and, well, don't look forward to failing exams but I guess it might happen. I look forward to more and more of the excitement that is studying the human body, to the downright crazy patients and the stories that they'll tell, even (gasp!) to being tortured a little when I do my residency.

These next 11 years (aproximately) will be amazing. I know it. So here's to the future. After all, I'm going to be the Blissful Med Student for a long time.

Hours of sleep last night: 9 (shocking, I know).