A girl from LA packed her bags one day to study in Italy
Studying medicine is like learning a whole new language. I’m not the first to say that, but it’s certainly true. I’m not sure that anything could have fully prepared me for medical school — to actually experience what everyone warned me about brings the definition of “difficult” to a whole new level. But I will [...]
I once asked my uncle why he became religious and I think back a lot on his answer: When he was a kid his stomach really hurt him and he complained to his parents. While they offered words of sympathy, nothing they said took his pain away. So he turned to God, repeatedly asking for [...]
If you’re bored with your life, go to med school. If you’re getting plenty of sleep, have plenty of time to read whatever book you want, not crying ever, and eating normally, then don’t have a baby. But go to med school. Sure you’ll never, ever get any of those luxuries again, but at least [...]
So, I just finished learning about the external and internal anal sphincters. Luca told me a fun fact: our ability to control when to eliminate waste is due to the striated muscle we have in our external anal sphincter. (Some food for thought for the next time you go poop.) Thanks, striated muscle! In other [...]
Sometimes two people just get caught up in the whirlwind of love that they don’t really stop to think the details through. Perhaps it’s only once they fall out of love that they are able to look back on it all with a sharper, focused perspective. When we are able to recognize that the trail [...]
