Friday, May 16, 2008

HHAPPPy!!!!!!!!!!

Broad Based Buds

Chlamydia ABC (African Bastard Children (aka Blind Chronic))

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my life has been reduced to this pathetic existence where i spend my hours memorizing retarded mnemonics. which is often almost as difficult as memorizing the actual craps themselves

For example naked RNA viruses are CPR.

the P stands for Picornaviruses. Of which are PERCH - polio, echo, rhino, cocksackie, and HepA. Which wouldn't be too bad if there weren't hella P-starting virus families (paramyyxo, picorna, parvo, papiloma, polyoma, pox)

Hep B is a double stranded circular dna virus. part of the hepadnavirus family. why it isn't called hepBdnavirus family, i dunno. now i have to remember to remember that it's counterintuitive. which makes me have to remember that some other shit wasn't counterintuitive.

Trying to keep in my head hundreds of bugs and drugs and diseases I've never seen before, many of which I'll never see ever.

Who really cares if a virus is icosahedral or helical?!?!?! Does that have any clinical relevance??? It's all gonna get spit out of some damned dna analyzer anyhow.

UGH!

ok end bitch session

:)!

Saturday, May 10, 2008

I Passed!

I was pretty happy today after taking a practice exam (supposedly these damn expensive $45 practice exams are the best approximators of your score) and I actually passed. Woohoo!!! Now I have 6 full weeks to hone in on that target 285 score. Quite exhausting just doing 200 questions, today. I don't know how i will maintain my stamina studying and doing questions until the real thing.

The bad news is apparently I am off the charts baaad in Behavioral Sciences...


"An asterisk indicates that your performance band extends beyond the displayed portion of the scale."

...but seriously who the heck comes up with some of these questions:



Seriously, what the hell is the correct answer to that question??? I picked the 3rd answer which is probably wrong since I got everything in this category wrong.

Anyway, yay i'm done with 2nd year!

that's all for now since i should be working on my research crap...

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Last Day of Year II

Tomorrow.

Hard to believe.

Then boards.

Then real patients.

Scary.

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Song of the week - Aslyn - "That's When I Love You":