Thursday . May 16 . 2002 . 9:24pm |
comfort foods, comfort people I've been really into Peanut M&Ms these past few weeks. They're so tasty is all. It seems that I have a different candy fixation for each rotation this year, actually. On Primary Care, I was all about the Caramel Crèmes. Neurology, I was scarfing up Chewy Sweet Tarts like you wouldn't believe. And on Medicine, about half of my financial expenditures were directed towards the acquisition of Twizzlers. I can't quite remember what candy I was obsessed with during Peds, but I think that I must have been full from eating all those snack-sized Oreos and Fig Newtons that they kept in the nursing pantry. I wonder what I'll be craving on Surgery? Maybe crack. So tomorrow is the last day of my surgical subspecialties rotation. It's been a good run. Mainly because the hours have been sweet, and each rotation only lasted a week, so it was hard to really get too stressed about anything, since very little was expected of us except to show up and stay awake. And even that, most of us only accomplished about 75% of the time. I think that our group is planning to go out tomorrow night, sort of the last hurrah for us before Surgery, and then, hard to believe, the end of third year. It's actually kind of sad. Fourth year, our group won't be together any more. We'll be split up, doing our own things, with schedules geared towards our specific future specialties. Sure, we'll see each other around, but it's not quite the same as working with the same people day in and day out. You get to know people. You look forward to seeing them. You suffer the indignities of being a med student together, create an obscure volume of in-jokes, bitch and moan, eat bad food together in the crummy hospital cafeteria, work hard, stay up late, and look forward to doing it all again the next day. I'm going to miss those guys. xo Michelle |
