1 Week Down

And just like that he finishes his first week of medical school (well really only 3 days).  I have Histology, Anatomy and Public health for 4 months which comprised the first term.  Tests every 3 weeks and a cumulative final at the end of each term.  My classmates all seem nice, my class is ridiculously small only 15 of us because of the economic situation in the world.  Speaking of which how about a little rant:  [ Fuck you banks and investment firms, what good are bean pushers if they are not willing to push beans, I am pretty sure that a med school student is a good investment and will eventually be able to pay their loan back.  I have my views, however uneducated (read: Indoctrinated) on this world and how capital works.  Like how about inflation...I am sorry economists but fuck you I am pretty sure it is all a figment of our imagination...ahh but what an imagination.  I also do not buy that market forces are the only controling hand that guides prices (can you say oligopoly, can you say collusion, can you say secret meetings and secret cabals....can you say pricks).  I am sure I will rant later on this blog soooo] rant done.  So yes my class is small because of economic forces.  So far class worries me, it seems to be going to slowly, and not in depth enough, but that I am sure is just because it is the first week.  OH HOW ABOUT THIS JUNK, mandatory attendance…are you joking me.  Am I in High School? Honestly I am attending a Caribbean medical school, I am pretty sure I found out about the value of attending or not attending class when I so severly wrecked my chances at a Canadian medical school in undergrad.  I prefer to think of that experience as learning to smash my reality tunnel with idiocy.  Honestly  I do not think that most people understand the value of idiocy,  the best lessons and probably the most fun (also the least fun obviously) I have had was obtained from being a complete and utter fuck up (I think I shall have to write a blog entry about the value of idiocy).  Show me a man who has never made a mistake, and I will show you someone who has never achieved much (Mark Twain?).    He also said I try not to let my schooling interfere with my education which I have lived by, again explaining why I am at a Caribbean medical school.  Why oh why do people attempt to curmudgeon others into obedient success?  I mean I guess that is a dumb question, but once you have screwed up severly and see things from the outside it looks pretty silly, though resonable….paradox…yup.  

Another entry down (it does not feel like a very good one but I am Postin anyways…try and stop me)

Your blogger and future ruler

D

And, Yes if any economists or econ 101 students read this I understand that inflation is “to much money chasing to few goods” and all I have to say to that is bullshit.

A lazy daze about to be shattered

Well, my classes start on Monday, I have been lazing around for the past year and a half of my life, working only (very) occasionally.  About half of that time alone with the bare minimum of socal interaction; 7 months of the last year and a half of my life was in total reclusion as a hermit in training.  Now I am on my island and am about to go to school.  I have not done any significant learning in a while and the only studying I have done was for a couple of weeks to write my MCAT.  So I am a little dishelved at being so close to back to school (I swear this is the last time I will grace the halls of academia).  Our habits define us, mine lately have been ridiculously lazy and self indulgent,  now I am back to the environment of “higher learning” will I be able to cope with the routine and social interaction?…only time will tell.  Oh well then…once again I am part apart of the great scheme of credentialism that is the institutionalized part of our society, how I did so miss it…

Fuck…my last experience in University made me want to put a bullet in my head, but now years of shattered expectations bring me peace rather than turmoil.  I have only one academic goal for the next two years of my life, and I like that, it makes things simple, that goal is to absolutely and completely RAVAGE the USMLE.  Desire is the key, desire is the fire I must kindle inside of me for success.  Apathy has never served me well, whenever I stop caring I stop doing, I just cannot figure out how to do things without caring.  A problem? Maybe, I don’t know. If plan A (desire) does not work, then we shall fall back to plan B (automaton) and hope for the best!

I just wanted to write a little update, I will write a real one when classes start next week.  This writing buisiness is fun!

Freedom

D

My Medifest Destiny!!!

Welcome to my first ever blog, and first ever post!  This blog shall be about my experiences in medical school and my journey into the medical world of North America.  I am a Canadian going to school in the Caribbean and so shall most likely become a part of the United States’ medical system…brain drain at it’s finest.  I start school in approximately 2 weeks we shall see if I have enough brain cells and the right stuff to complete a medical education, pass my boards and begin a life long battle to ward off suffering and death with my every move (like a reverse ninja).  This  is a path of return to my people (the human race), to become part of that society that I have turned away from in my misery…to once again become a part of the whole, to give as I recieve.  This is my……MEDIFEST DESTINY!!! (if I have enough brain cells like I said).  There you have it, the first thing I have written for anyone to read in about 4 years, I hope it made sense.  I shall try to update at least once a week.

Libertas