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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

A Blog Hiatus

The Boards are rapidly approaching, as my friends can attest. I inundate them daily with emails asking advice on what books they are using, reading, thinking about, and cherishing (I'm so sorry). As a result, Farrah and I will be taking a blog-iatus for the next 2 months. I am deeply sorry for such a crushing below, but I'm sure that the majority of you dear blog readers are medical school students yourselves and will also be busy with Goljan lectures rather than read well-crafted essays about foreign people.

So, I thought I'd say goodbye that that we will meet again in cyberspace soon. Ironically, when we resume blogging again in late June, Farrah and I will no longer sit in the back row, left side (and actually, Farrah doesn't really sit there anymore anyway, because she doesn't come to class). We will be (inshaAllah) full-fledged third years, and we will sit where the attendings and residents tell us to rather than an emo, foreign-filled row of our choosing. I thank all our readers - both the vocal and the silent - for their support and love, and we will see each other soon. Our blogs will take on a different quality. In my case, they will be less about medical school as an institution but about embarrassing things that have happened to me while on my rotations - I am horrifically clumsy so I'll probably just make a patient bleed by merely staring at them.

And so, in the immortal words of Heidi Klum, "auf weidersehen."

--By Mariam, who is wondering what book you are using for embryo? Can you tell me? E-mail me back! Thanks!

9 comments:

Shaz said...

The first time I tried to take blood from a real patient when I started 3rd year I made him cry, no joke. I hope you have more success insha Allah.

I can't remember what book I used for embryology, sorry.

Shaz said...

Taking arterial blood is much more fun btw!

Farrah said...

I heard you don't need a book for embryo, just first aid - no joke.

Erik said...
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Anonymous said...

Im using high yield embryology--and adding any useful, high yield stuff from it into first aid. Hope that helps :) Ill miss these blogs, in the mean time goood luck, hopefully we'll both be alive at the end of this!

Erik said...

So sad to hear the bad news.

Anna-Liisa said...

I'm reading a book about Nancy Drew! Does that help?

brittani c. said...

Farewell, dear ones. You will be missed. Study hard and rock Step 1.

Linz said...

What about all the stay-at-home-moms living vicariously through all your crazy med school hijincks? (spelling?) Also, when I want to study an embryo, I get pregnant with one! (this has only happened once.)