Good times with bad decisions (Part 2)

Well, at least I'm consistent.

In the words of my boy the Whale-Hunter, "Duuuude, Akshay, you grimed it out, man! You show up for like 6 out of 24 days of Neuro, all our site-director ever said was 'Who's Akshay?' or 'Where's Akshay?', instead of finishing studying you go to a Metallica concert the night before the exam, get hammered, stumble into the exam and fuckin' pass it!"

So, yeah, I passed the Neurology exam. Sweet, didn't break my pass-streak.

And in terms of days partying so far in February, I'm still batting 1.000 there, too. It's a shame that Step 2 will soon break that...but so goes the life of a medical student. 25 days isn't bad though...sorry Booty-B, it may be the year of you, but this month's been mine.

Mas musica:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2v_XY-wsjs
Another by the man himself, Many Chao. In this world of unemployment, global warming, and violence, a call to Bob Marley.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rZrWtjEKv0
Everything is easy, baby, just leave it to Weezy, baby. Rock that siren.

Just About 9497 Days, Now...

Another year down, just another year brown. Kinda.

So I'm 26 now, and I gotta say this past year rocked. Which, for some time now, is par for the course.

February has basically been a birfday month for me, I think in terms of days partying I'm batting 1.000 so far.

Unfortunately, it's time to pump the brakes a bit and get to passin' Step 2 CK and knockin' out a 15-page ISP paper. But there'll be time for that. For now, enjoy the Manu Chao.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNrVeggdPFk
(Mellow out to the greatest love song, especially if you speak a bit of Spanish and French.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m7hxzwW0qw
(Mind you, this is actually 2 separate songs on the album. But both are good. The 2nd is better if you speak some French.).

Good times with bad decisions (Part 1)

It's that time of 4th-year, we're about 4 months away from being MD's and all motivation has gone to shit.

Well, I guess I can't say all motivation. We're always motivated to take care of our patients. And we're motivated to spend the rest of the time partying as hard as possible.

Intern year is gonna be nothing like the time we have now, and we've been doing this so long now that all pretense is out the door. We're all ready to be the doctors we set out to be so long ago, and SO over the extra garbage like impressing residents and taking exams.

So, where was I 12 hours before my Neurology Shelf exam? Why, trashed at a Metallica concert, of course.

The concert ROCKED, they still have it. And though my boy LaPorta got us sick seats, sneaking down to general admission made the experience perfect. It had been a while since I'd gotten dropped by a big dude in a mosh pit, carried surfers overhead, and pushed up with the crowd near the stage. I was very overdue for a good GA rock concert. Perfect.

Flash forward to waking up the next morning:
Hangover, check. Neck stiffness & pain from headbanging, check. Hurts to bend my left index finger after a bad fall in the mosh pit, not enough sleep, didn't finish even 1 book in preparation for this exam, check check & check. Let's go.

Here's the beautiful part, at this point it's a pass/fail exam and, if I fail, I just take it again next month. So really it's a pass-now/pass-later exam. I'll let you know how it went in a future blog update.

I kinda didn't wanna ruin my streak of never failing an exam in med school...but I kinda wanted to go to a Metallica concert, too. Kinda down.