Uniform-Fitting Day

Yaaaay! Hooray for uniforms!! After four years of not having a uniform, I am really happy to have a uniform again because it's so hard for me to choose what to wear every time I'd go to school. Especially transferring to a new school, I think not having a uniform would mean bigger expenses for me :))

Got some pictures of Kimer and PJ

First Day

As I was so excited for this day and was not able to sleep the night before, I became zombie-like. I forgot to bring a notebook and pens. Instead, I brought a camera. Hooray!!

True enough, the first day was really the hardest. First, prepping up for school was hard. Coming from a public university we can wear almost anything that we want to wear. Hence, my closet (maybe as well as some batchmates from different UP campuses) was in TOTAL SHOCK haha. Goodbye to shorts and saying hello to pants and maybe skirts!

Second, the moment we were mingling with each other my nose almost bled. I thought it was just a stereotype however, and I don't mean to insult or anything, most of the people were really speaking in straight English. It was really intimidating. Coming from a national university, rarely did we converse in English. Not much of an issue maybe, but it made it really harder for me to mingle as they might "judge" me hahaha <--- define praning.

But of course, it's just the first day and positive for the 19 (18) more days of the transsumm :)

To end, meet my groupmates for the whole summer :D

Dating a Med Student

My college friend and I were wondering if we'd find "something new" in medical school, and we are really hoping to find "one" there. However, as I was browsing through the different blogs and sites where ASMPH was tagged, I was able to pass by this one blog which made me lose hope :)) I want to share it with everyone else as I found it really interesting and funny at that.

 "How to Date a Med Student" - themuffinman.multiply.com

1. Don't expect to see them. Ever.

2. Accept the fact they will have many affairs. With their books.

3. Learn to hide your “ew, gross” reactions when they tell you all the stuff you never wanted to know about your bodily functions.

4. Support them when they come home after each test, upset because they failed—and gently remind them after they get their well above passing grade how unnecessary the “I’m going to fail out of medical school and never become an MD” dramatics are.

5. Each week they will have a new illness. Some will be extremely rare, others will be more mundane. Doesn’t matter. They will be certain they have it (no second opinions necessary.) Med school can, and will, turn even the sanest into a hypochondriac. Date them for long enough, and you’ll become one too.

6. There will be weeks you'll forget you even have a boyfriend—friends will ask how he is and you'll say, “What? Who? Oh....right. He's well...I think.”

7. They'll make you hyper-aware that germs are everywhere and on everything. Even though you used to walk into your home with your shoes on, and sit on your bed in the same clothes you just wore while riding the subway, or sat on a public bench in, you'll become far too disgusted to ever do it again. Believe me, it's going to get bad...you'll watch yourself transform into the anal retentive person you swore you'd never become. And when you witness others perform these same acts that, before you began dating your med student, you spent your entire life doing too, you'll wince and wonder, “Ew! How can they do that? Don't they know how many germs and bacteria they're spreading??!”

8. Romantic date = Chinese take-out in front of the TV on their 10 minute study break.

9. A vacation together consists of a trip down the street to Walgreens for new highlighters and printer paper.

10. Their study habits will make you feel like a complete slacker. For them, hitting the books 8-to-10 hours a day is not uncommon, nor difficult. You'll wonder how you ever managed to pass school on your meager one hour of studying per night.

11. They're expected to know everything. Everything! The name of the 8 billion-lettered, German sounding cell that lives in the depths of your inner ear, the technical term for the “no one's ever heard of this disease” disease that exists only on one foot of the Southern tip of the African continent. But ask them if your knee is swollen, or what you should do to tame your mucous-filled cough, or why the heck your head feels like someone's been drilling through it for oil for two weeks straight, and they won't have a clue.

12. “My brain's filled with so much information, I can't be expected to remember THAT!" will be the standard excuse for forgetting anniversaries, birthdays, and, if you get this far, probably the birth of your first-born.

13. You'll need friends with unending patience who pretend never to get sick of listening to your endless venting and complaints. Or, you'll need to pay a therapist who will pretend never to get sick of listening to your endless venting and complaints.

But take this all with a grain of salt. It's not like I'm speaking from experience or anything..

http://tehmuffinman.multiply.com/journal 

 See! So if you're just like me and my friend, hahaha this blog is just like a big meteor shattering the cloud of all your mundane and happy thoughts about med school and "finding something new".

Be nice to other kids

Whew! I predicted that this would come. I wouldn't be able to sleep the night before the first day of transsumm.

It's as if I am back to kindergarten. Back to when I felt really scared being left by my parents in a new place. It's back to feeling awkward and being extra nice to everyone. It's back to feeling eager to meet new people but at the same time scared that they might judge you. However, there are a lot of things to look forward to.

1. Getting to see familiar faces
2. Getting to see new faces 
3. Making new friends
4. Beginning a whole new journey 
5. Being a step closer to becoming a doctor

Argh! This mixed feeling of excitement and nervousness is making me palpitate. It's the first time that I felt this way after four years.

I think the best way to prepare for tomorrow will be...

1. Get at least 4 hours of sleep 
2. Prep up for school (first day: always dress to impress) *impress not to wow, rather to give them a glimpse of how and who you are
3. PRAY! 
4. Bring all requirements ^O^
5. Bring all the confidence and humility I have 
6. BE NICE TO OTHER KIDS

안녕 for now :)

Pre-Transsumm

Before our Transition Summer starts on Monday (April 25), I just want to write down the things that I am feeling about this thing.

1. EXTREMELY EXCITED:
• I'll be seeing old friends from SPCP :) hello there!!
• I'll be going with two of my college friends.
• It will be a new start for all of us - for me
• The campus will be very near my house and I really don't know what about that fact makes me happy :))
• Simply excited for all the things in store..Well I guess not much, from what I've heard and read I will have a new relationship!!!! --> with our books that is :))
2. Scared
• There are a lot of things to be scared of about a new place. 

But for now, I will just be excited and positive about the Transition Summer. Hope to meet new friends whom I will be sharing a lot of experiences with. :)

New Site New Phase

Entering a new phase - Med School. I wanted to create something where I can throw in everything about what I will be encountering there. So what's with the flying lantern photo? Well just like what I've watched in one K-drama, the flying lantern festival happens annually where they get lanterns, write whatever their wishes are and let it fly. Since I haven't flown a lantern before, this very first entry will be my "lantern". 

ASMPH please be nice and satisfy all my expectations. I hope I can be a better student and become the best doctor that I can be. Please make it a happier journey compared to my pre-med phase. 

So what to expect in this blog: blaaahs about Med school and just about anything under the sun.