Done!!

Finished with my GI midterm. It was NOT that bad. I think I did pretty well. Out of 62 questions (the shortest exam I've ever taken in med school), I guessed on 12. Out of those 12, I only didn't know 6, but I could make an educated guess on the other 6. At the very least, I'm sure I got something in the 80s. We'll see what happens with grades get posted.

I was planning on hitting up Walmart today, since I've been putting it off for sooo long now, but I don't have the energy to get up off my sofa and go. I've been lying here in the dark since 2:30, when I was finished with my exam haha. Anyways, I hope someone calls for dinner or something, but I refuse to go to walmart right now. I just don't want to.

Tomorrow, I AM GOING SHOPPINGGGGG... I'm gonna hit up all my favorite stores -- JCPenny, Macy's, Express, Forever21 and DSW and whatever else is at the Mall. This is a whole day event and I have been looking forward to this since I realized we get a day off after the midterm. I hope I find stuff though! The worst feeling is when you go to get something, but then you can't find it. I'm giving up on the flat boots thing just bc I don't have and won't find skinny jeans that fit my butt. Instead, I think I'll get a pair of brown pumps bc I don't have any nice brown shoes. I wouldn't mind a new pair of black pumps... I don't like the pair I have right now, and they're all beaten up from med school interviews haha. But, they still work, so I don't really have an excuse for a pair of new ones. Ohhh well. I know exactly which ones I want bc I already checked out DSW.com. I swear, that place has become one of my favorite places. I love their clearance rack -- I found a pair of black flats that are beyond comfortable for working in the hospital and clinics... Regular price was something like $70 -- I got them for like $25. Hells yea. Anyways, brown pumps. And black ones. Hee hee. Anyways, my goal for clothes shopping is a pair of really dark "skinny" jeans that are really straight. I'm thinking of going to Macy's for that one because they have this whole thing online for shopping by body type and it spit out a couple that I want to check out, but the only thing is that it will probably be expensive.......... but so worth it.......... hee hee. I'm going to try to not spend too much of my special-occasion-gift-money tomorrow. haha, but then again, I do have my $750 from the summer sitting in the bank (I don't count the money I spend on food or books or anything school related as coming from that $750 haha... that other stuff is from the money my dad gives me for school expenses hahaha). But yes, those are two things I really want -- straight/"skinny" dark wash jeans and brown pumps. If I get nothing else, I'm gonna get the black pumps too hahaha. Omggg I'm just so excited. I'm going to go when the mall opens up at 10. I figure I can spend a good 4 hours there, shopping at my own pace, Then I can come back home, take a nap (I'll prob be tired haha), and then get up and go to Walmart. That is the plan for tomorrow -- mall, DSW (its across the street from the mall), nap, Walmart.

SOOO EXCITED.

I think I'm more excited because I feel like I did pretty well on the exam!!

Hollaaaaaaaa :D

In the time it took to write this, my friend asked me if I wanted to go get dinner tonight. Yayyyyyyyyyyy. I'm in such a good mood right now :D
Even diagnosing myself with IBS isn't putting me down! But yea, I think -- no I'm pretty sure I have IBS. Its been going on for a while and I didn't know what was going on until this class. I realized today that caffeine makes it sooooooooo much worse. I had a rockstar and my stomach was hurrrting and I was so gassy. Stupid intestines.

Until the next one then.

GI Midterm in Two Days

And I'm completely exhausted. I'm not good at this staying up late at night and studying business anymore. Its almost 2 am and I'm soooooooo sleepy. The good thing is that I've gone through ALL 23 lectures so far, BUT I still have pathology images and PBL cases and lab cases to review, not to mention that I still need to review how everything gets secreted and what stimulates what O_o There are more hormones in the GI system than in the endocrine system... or at least it feels that way haha.

Anyways, I should be okay, time-wise I think. My goal was to get through all the lectures I had left today and review 2 PBL cases. I did the lecture, and now I'm going to review the PBL cases.... I'm just waiting for the facilitator notes to print. I don't know why its taking so long........ Anyways, I think I have enough energy to stay awake enough to at least review the first one, the one I didn't understand as we were discussing it in class haha. The second one was a really easy one, and the notes seem really long with a lot of research citatations thrown in (annoying!!) sooo I think I'm going to skim it in the morning or maybe skip it.
Bleh. The material for this class isn't so bad. Its pretty simple and straight forward, but I think because its straight forward, they're expecting us to know a LOT of detail.

My exam is on Monday, and they're giving us Tuesday off. I am so going to go shopping!! My special-occasion-gift-money is begging to be spent haha. I want tall, flat suede boots. But I can't bc the only way I could wear them would be with skinny jeans.... And they don't make any for people with my body type. Its quite annoying :(

Umm what else? I'm just here writing nonsense haha. Just waiting for the case to finish printing...
Ohh yea. I'm over my crush on that first year. It was a really stupid and really brief crush.
Ohh and I was talking to my friends, and we're guessing about 60-75% of our class is married, engaged, or engaged to be engaged (aka serious relationships). Everyone really is engaged or married in med school. I had friends that used to say that but now I realize omg they are so right haha.

Not much else going on in my life. Same old thing. Nothing too interesting. Life of a mundane medical student I guess. I wish there was some excitement going on. Sadly, Naz, you are my only source of excitement when you give me daily updates on the situation haha. How pathatic is that lol?? My own life is so boring and predictable that I have to rely on you for my source of excitement hahahaha... Its kind of really sad, but I'm cracking up. I think its the sleep deprivation.

On another note, I tried on 3 pairs of jeans -- one purposefully ripped pair, one really dark wash from express, and my only pair of "skinny" jeans that are actually straight -- they were all previously too tight bc I gained too much weight in a short amount of time... Now they all fit me comfortably enough again!!! Well, the straight ones and the ripped ones do but the express ones have the gap in the back... I'll figure something out for those... But 2 out of 3 isn't bad!! :D

Until the next one then.

Lost Weight...

So I weighed myself after Ramadan was over, and I lost close to 5 pounds (somehow). I think it was probably because I didn't eat very much at all, and therefore I thought I lost mostly muscle mass (because in metabolism, first thing to go is your stored carbs in the form of glycogen, and then the next thing to start being broken down is proteins -- if I remember correctly from my biochem/metabolism class). Anyways, I thought I lost mostly muscle mass prob from my legs since I really didn't do any heavy walking. Now, I have to dress up nearly every week because of seeing standardized patients and seeing real patients, and the med school's policy is to look professional every and any time there is a patient (real or standardized) involved. So, I have to dress up, which is a pain in the ass, but, a lot of my shirts can double as casual and dressy if i stick it with my white coat and dress pants so it works out. What's pissing me off is that the weight I lost is apparently around my WAIST. Because of that, my dress pants now all have the gap and a belt doesn't look right bc it bunches up in the back under my shirt. Normally, I wouldn't care so much since I'd have my white coat over it, but its hot, and I can't wear that coat all the time and I don't like wearing it when I'm studying bc knowing my clumsy ass, I'd probably get highlighter all over the sleeves -- I mean, that's already happened once.
But yea, I'm mad my dress pants don't fit me right anymore. >.<
They used to fit around the waist and hips and I thought I was so lucky for finding dress pants that fit.
Why couldn't the weight have been from my hips?????? :(

On another note, I hate the book we're supposed to read out of for this class. Its so wordy and the author could say things much more concisely if she wanted to, but nooo, she decided to be a wordy and pretentious butthead. I'm seriously considering not reading it for my test bc it sucks. Ugh.

Until the next one then.

Med school is kind of lonely... I thought I was okay with it.. maybe not. Who knows? I sure as hell don't. All I know is that I've gone two days without seeing another human being, which might have something to do with it. I've been holed up in my place trying to study but failing miserably. I've only listened and gone over three lectures since Friday afternoon, and that's something I do on a regular basis everyday.
*sigh*
:(

Until the next one then.

I just signed up for a $700 review course for the USMLE step 1 exam that I'll be taking in the summer next year. O_o

Freaking out just a little bit.

Until the next one then.