Hello everybody. I wanted to write about Monday's Exams.
Having tests especially on Monday can't ever really be fun. Neither can the weekend before the test. But playing soccer, going to the botanical garden, going on picnics in great weather, and getting drunk with friends after the test can be! Everyone I talked to said their rest of the day was a complete DAZE and really fun. So that's good.
I thought the exam was straight hard. Not unfair or anything, just hard. By the way, do you all realize it's been about two MONTHS you've been living in your new apartment/house/with your new roommate/living your new life as a student of medicine? u've already digested ~80 entire lectures worth of material. 10 months to the school year, 2 of em are already done. try to savior what you can.
BTW, we have an anatomy exam on ELECTION DAY???? how, whyyy?
haha alright yall, PEACE
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Community Service Brainstorm
Written by Kate DiPasquale:
On Thursday, September 25th, Parth Modi, Charley Nottingham, Andrew Junkin and Mai Grant came over to my place to eat chili and brainstorm about ways in which the class of 2012 can get involved in the Richmond community. While it stormed outside, we sat on the carpet of my living room/bedroom/ office/ dining room, and fired off ideas for projects that we imagined primarily being useful in the Greater Richmond area,but that also speaks to the part of us that led us to study medicinein the first place. We talked about looking for ways to join the social support network that already exists in Richmond. We thought hard about ways in which medical students can and cannot contribute in
a realistic manner.
We had some interesting ideas - some of which were not quite feasible, i.e. lending a hand to harvest olives and donate the oil - that would be Mai's, yes she's from California. Others were easy to imagine - holding several events thoughout the year, coat or food drives, that we could organize and contribute to as a class over a relatively short period of time. We talked about being a resource to connect students to service and volunteer agencies on an individual basis. Yet the idea that inspired us was that of having one or more long-term projects that we could work on during our time in Richmond, and pass on to the incoming class when we leave.
We divvied up the project scouting, ate some ice cream, and returned to studying feeling like we had come to the best place in the world to be studying medicine. Then we looked at Beckman's syllabus, which really appears to have been cut and pasted out of five different textbooks, and...no, wait, this was just me.
Anyhow, I DO feel inspired, and really excited to continue working with a group of such engaged, perceptive, intelligent, neat people, and seeing what happens as more people get involved. Actually, the studying feels positively peripheral at this point. But, as the body must continue to send beta-hydroxybutyrate to the peripheral tissue so that fatty acid metabolism can provide energy in the absence of incoming glucose, I trudge on.
Looking Forward,
Kate DiPasquale, Community Service Chair
On Thursday, September 25th, Parth Modi, Charley Nottingham, Andrew Junkin and Mai Grant came over to my place to eat chili and brainstorm about ways in which the class of 2012 can get involved in the Richmond community. While it stormed outside, we sat on the carpet of my living room/bedroom/ office/ dining room, and fired off ideas for projects that we imagined primarily being useful in the Greater Richmond area,but that also speaks to the part of us that led us to study medicinein the first place. We talked about looking for ways to join the social support network that already exists in Richmond. We thought hard about ways in which medical students can and cannot contribute in
a realistic manner.
We had some interesting ideas - some of which were not quite feasible, i.e. lending a hand to harvest olives and donate the oil - that would be Mai's, yes she's from California. Others were easy to imagine - holding several events thoughout the year, coat or food drives, that we could organize and contribute to as a class over a relatively short period of time. We talked about being a resource to connect students to service and volunteer agencies on an individual basis. Yet the idea that inspired us was that of having one or more long-term projects that we could work on during our time in Richmond, and pass on to the incoming class when we leave.
We divvied up the project scouting, ate some ice cream, and returned to studying feeling like we had come to the best place in the world to be studying medicine. Then we looked at Beckman's syllabus, which really appears to have been cut and pasted out of five different textbooks, and...no, wait, this was just me.
Anyhow, I DO feel inspired, and really excited to continue working with a group of such engaged, perceptive, intelligent, neat people, and seeing what happens as more people get involved. Actually, the studying feels positively peripheral at this point. But, as the body must continue to send beta-hydroxybutyrate to the peripheral tissue so that fatty acid metabolism can provide energy in the absence of incoming glucose, I trudge on.
Looking Forward,
Kate DiPasquale, Community Service Chair
Monday, September 22, 2008
Welcome to the Medical College of Virginia Class of 2012
The MCV class of 2012 is off to a great start. For posterity's sake I am creating this blog and hope that people post to it often. Eventually we will be able to look back and see who we were in the begining of this journey and I am sure it will help us slow down and appreciate what we are going through. Eventually it may even become a resource for future MCV students hoping to gain insight into MCV.
It has been about 5 weeks since classes started (6 if you count orientation) and I think most people have found their grove.
Events that have happened:
--Liver Rounds
--Kayaking Trip
--Birthday Parties
--1st Annual MCV classic
--M1's take out the M2's
I think thats all?
Things I have noticed about our class that is unique I think:
--Most of the class still shows up to lecture. I was told many times that after the first test, about 50% of the class doesn't show. From my eyeballed estimate I think I still see at least 80% of the class.
--We are the biggest and the best class of all time... at least until the next bigger and better class comes next year.
Parth Modi
Historian
It has been about 5 weeks since classes started (6 if you count orientation) and I think most people have found their grove.
Events that have happened:
--Liver Rounds
--Kayaking Trip
--Birthday Parties
--1st Annual MCV classic
--M1's take out the M2's
I think thats all?
Things I have noticed about our class that is unique I think:
--Most of the class still shows up to lecture. I was told many times that after the first test, about 50% of the class doesn't show. From my eyeballed estimate I think I still see at least 80% of the class.
--We are the biggest and the best class of all time... at least until the next bigger and better class comes next year.
Parth Modi
Historian
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