Category: Day by Day

Coat Tail

For one of our courses (Early Clinical Encounters), we have coat tail sessions where we’re assigned to a physician for a couple hours and basically follow them around/see real patients (although clearly, I’m just limited to taking patient histories right now). I love these sessions because it reminds me of why I’m in med school …

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design!

When I was somewhere around 4-5, I won $50 in a coloring contest. It was kinda awesome.

Last semester, during one of my study breaks, I decided to mess around with MS Paint and submitted a design for the class shirt. We voted on it today and…my design actually won! :O There were two rounds: …

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winter break recap

Well then. That was definitely not the best way to start off the new semester. Since my neighbor is about 10 lectures ahead of me, I spent yesterday in somewhat of a mad rush trying to catch up to him and ended up sleeping at around 2:30 a.m. As luck would have it, none of …

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christmas adventures

Durian

I’ve been all excited about coming back home because, aside from being able to see my family/friends again (and Asian food!), I can practice wrestling/rolling with my brother!

I’m sure I’ve mentioned this before, but way back in the day, we used to fight all the time and I got really good at escaping whenever …

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counseling the patient

Our last standardized patient encounter for the semester was definitely one of my favorites. It’s basically what I spent a lot of my time in clinic doing, so to be able to do that again, even if it was with a fake patient, brought back good memories and reminded me of why I decided to …

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