On their game

I don't usually like to post other peoples work here so I will give you this link to a short post but a great one. After reading this you have to think this person was on their game that night to pull off this burn.
Enjoy
AK
Fingers And Tubes In Every Orifice: Quote of the Night

Hello Swammi

Can someone please tell me what i am going to do for the rest of my life. please!? I find it agonizing trying and decide what residency i want to do. Every time i think of a cool specialty, I get excited. I focus on ones that I have experience in and that I can see myself doing in 25 years. I try to not let income affect my decision. If i hate my job in 10 years, no amount of pay is going to make me want to go to work. And medicine is a job where you have to WANT to go to work. It ain't easy. then I check around with the departments and my friends that are doctors as to what the specialty is really like. Then i ask my classmates what it is like. this can go good or bad. On one hand they may have some experience with it and give you some good advice. on the other hand they may be interested in that specialty. This is where the conversations can get awkward. you all know what i am talking about. you get a little shifty eyed, then accusational, then the anxiety sets in and you explode into a barrage of questions as to why i am inquiring about this specialty.
"Do i know anyone in the department?"
"Have i started shadowing it yet?"
"i have been thinking about this all my life" (lies)
"why are you taking my spot from me!!!"


Finally this ends with someone trying to mark their territory and then the peeing begins. You don't want to smell the anxiety laced urine of a med student this late in the year.

Don't get me wrong i am not singling anyone out. Hell i am as competitive as the next person. I don't like to loose. I get that little pang in my stomach when i hear that someone else is interested in the same residency spot that i am. however i don't think that sneaking around about your residency makes any sense. Also, just because you have been thinking about this residency since your entered medical school that doesn't make it your residency. You cant claim it and you cant be mad at someone who wants it. but what ever keeps you off the ledge man.

now back to studying. I know i will regret this statement but, 'I CANT WAIT TO GET OUT OF THE CLASSROOM" as of May 27, I have no more tests this year until i write my board exams during clerkship. no more reading shitty notes and regurgitating facts that have no tangible meaning to me. I hope i can start to answer questions soon with a face in my mind of a patient i treated who had this similar scenario. I hope.

Stay Loose
AK

I Have Been Shappenrooted

First let me apologize to the Dutch. Not the entire Dutch people but the kind ones that frequented my site. I dont think i have ever appologized to an entire nation before, well at least not since that incident with the French. anyways...The Dutch were kind enough to place me on their site. They even posted a cool explanation (IN ENGLISH) for all of us non-shapenrouteners. I was busy with school and never got the chance to post a link to their network. Although i did post it many times in my blogs. Anyways, to the Dutch readers - Het spijt me. now i am sorry (Het spijt me)if that is not correct and i accidentally offended someones mother but - Ik spreek geen Nederlands. ok enough with the bad attempts at speaking Dutch.

anyways, good luck with your travels this year in Spain and every other country as it does sound like a great way to spend a few weeks. for those of you that missed the English explanation, Shapenrouten is following the ancient (or not so ancient) paths created when farmers used to migrate their sheep from colder climates to warmer climates or was that the other way around? I think it was as they brought the wool to the oclder climates to sell. anyways they made these long winding paths that people follow and camp on as they all lead somewhere and wind through the country side through rural areas. Good luck and don't forget your satphone and GPS. oh and by the way we are Canadian, well Newfoundlanders to be more specific, we are only Canadians when we have to pay taxes to the Canadian Govt.

AK

This is what i do the night before a final exam.

Yes I am a slacker. Bite me.

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