These are a few of my favorite things

...Med School...

The place where all type A personalities come together and the people who tell you they are type B are simply lying

I am pretty sure, single-handedly, med students keep office supply stores in business.

In the last WEEK, I have manged to go through 2 reems of paper, an assortment of highlighters, all my favorite colors in my triplus fineliner pins,  and 2 cartridges of black ink.

Its hard to believe we've finished our last classes.

 I feel safe knowing all of my classmates are well versed in the translocations and CD markers of lymphomas. We may still not have any idea how to do a differential, but don't worry folks, most of us can tell you the most random assortment of facts on the Human Body.

In honor of my survival, I'd like to share with you what I have learned from roughly 100,000 in tuition:

1) You know a whole lot about nothing important, and probably all the important stuff you know nothing about. 

2) Always keep a bottle of wine handy. You'll thank yourself later.

3) Actin is orange if you colored it correctly in histology

4) triplus fineliner pens in the 0.3 mm size in the 20 assortment pack are an excellent investment. They will allow you to write in the tiny spaces on the page for you to take notes, and they tend not to bleed through. 

 They also have a very nice stand

5) Buy highlighters in bulk. It will save you money in the long run. 

6)  Even the 5" binders will not hold all of your pathology notes. Just don't even try.

7) C does not = MD

8) Class time is very convenient for online shopping and checking every day for great deals saves you lots of money!

9) 5 hour energy drinks will make you feel like you got hit by a train @ hour 6

10) The people who design lockers are not very intelligent because they are not large enough for a book bag.

11) Humor is necessary for survival 

12) No matter how many textbooks you can quote to show the test question has multiple answers, you will almost always still be wrong.

13)  Save enough in your loans or personal funds to take vacations everytime you get the chance. It will do wonders for your sanity. 

Back to studying... good luck in the next 2 weeks to all my sleep deprived and caffeine ridden classmates!