I am attending Ross University in Dominica starting the Fall 2011 semester.
Oh yeah and despite that the final destroyed everyone’s grades….
I am a second year med student!
Photoset reblogged from Memories and Battle Scars with 59,408 notes
Ingredients of life
Illustrations of Chemical compounds by Rex
Source: expose-the-light
Things are apparently ‘clicking’ finally. My last two exams were Bs (my practicals were a B and an A) and now my Mini 3 for the Repro/Integument block was an A!!!
My first A on a mini and I couldn’t be prouder. I hope to keep going up and being stable in my grades. I have my CCSB exam tomorrow, then my final in a week.
Then my parents arrive and I CANNOT WAIT!!!! :)
Photo reblogged from Medical School with 120 notes
Striated muscle and nerve fibers
Source: medicalschool
Woah, what a whirlwind this whole experience has been. I fail badly as a blogger, but at least I can’t same the same about Med School.
Ross can continued to try to screw us over at every turn, including ‘losing grades’ and computer glitches up the ass.
However, I just finished Mini 2 (and luckily was not one of the individuals who had computer glitches during the exam). This makes my second B on a Mini this semester, an A on the Neuro Practical and a B on the Anatomy Practical. This is a great improvement over last semester, yet this place just makes you perpetually disappointed.
In less than 3 weeks we will have our Anatomy Practical, Histology Practical and our Mini 3. Then a few days later our CCSB Final Exam and a few days later the final. The 17th will be a day of freedom!
Post reblogged from arghlblargh! with 17 notes
Ross University School of Medicine, Dominica
As promised, here’s my friends and my “everything-you-might-want-to-know-about-Ross.” (We’re gathered at dinner and laughing over this.)
Now, before you read this, I just want to say that despite everything that may follow, I actually love Ross. It’s crazy, but all of us here do, and although it’s a bit difficult to explain why, I hope we can somehow convey our reasons in this post.
Source: julieyumi
Photo reblogged from Walk A Fragile Line with 609 notes
This is pretty much my mantra
My life? Yes.
Source: weheartit.com
Post with 1 note
Debilitating
Oh, you have a headache? I’m sorry.
No, I do not have a headache. What I suffer from is a migraine. It is nearly impossible to fully understand without experiencing one, but it is hell. And my hell has turned debilitating.
Blinding pain. Sensitivity to light. Nausea.
My migraines have increased in frequency to practically every day; ripping hours out of my precious time. I am in medical school, I cannot begin to describe how little time I have available and how precious every drop is. Yet, here I lie for hours each night, in excruciating pain, stuck in my own body which is fighting back at this reality.
I can feel it coming on, hours in advanced, but am helpless to stop it. For 18 years I have searched for the solution to this problem and have ended up with a big blue pill that works maybe 50% of the time. A pill I cannot find in my current country; a pill which is illegal to send through the mail; a pill my insurance company won’t ship to me…..in essence, a pill of limited quantity and limited efficacy.
Med school is emotionally draining and has brought me to tears many times, but my first tears of second Semester had nothing to do with the rigors of exams and studying. My tears came from the frustration of being trapped in a disabled body. I cannot move, I cannot see, I cannot function. All I am capable of is lying, in pain, trying to focus my mind away from the reality of this. The reality of a pain that no word will every describe. The reality of a constellation of symptoms that would shock a person’s system. The reality of my lost time; my inability to perform my one function….study.
Every day.
No answers, no solutions. Just the certainty that day in and day out, I will suffer this and struggle to make up lost time. A struggle I now see as a disability.
Just needed to vent.
Here we go again
So… I suck at blogging. Shoot me. Did I not make a mention about my grades?!?
As you all know by now, I PASSED FIRST SEMESTER. I pulled out with 2 Bs, 1 C and a Pass for Block 4.
Then we came home for 2 weeks during break where we ate a lot of stuff and got a lot of awesome stuff from my parents. Dean got a bike for Christmas, so we got another barrel to ship down (it was cheaper to ship an entire barrel than just the bike).
And now I am sitting in San Juan. We will be back in Dominica tomorrow. It feels like I just got home; definitely not ready to go back.
How did I get here?
Sometimes I wake up one day in shock over the passing of time. Each day dragged out so slowly, I thought I would never make it to this point, but here it is. I have finished Semester 1, and now I sit and pray I passed.
I need to relearn how to relax. I feel like I need to be productive; I should be studying.
We are fully moved into our new apartment, and slowly adjusting. I love the feel of the space, and the privacy. It feels like our own little private cottage. However, it is a lot smaller, which means any bit of clutter/mess can seem overwhelming.
Page 1 of 18
