Reasons Medical School is Like surfing

1. It looks like something cool.
Grays anatomy, endless you tube videos, and web forums, make being a doctor seem so much fun/like wise its almost normal if watching surfers makes you want to surf

2.Once you first try it its harder than you thought
Learning to balance on a surface board is soo difficult(I speak from experience). I was speaking to some first year students, and they where surprised by the amount of work they have to do. Neither are as easy as you thought they would be.

3.Once it gets better, its fantastic
Once you can balance surfing its fun. I wouldn't go as far to describe medical school as fun, but it is rewarding, and each assignment is taking you one step closer to your dream of being a doctor.

4.You will get knocked down ocassionaly
Even the best surfers get knocked down by waves. Like wise even the most organised people will get caught out, and get buried in a mountain of work. This is why I have not been around much, I have 1 essay, 2 presentations, ontop of my usual stuff( homework/making notes learning anatomy)

5.You cant stay down.
When surfing you need to get back to your board, or atleast swim to shore(but surf boards are expensive to replace). Likewise when the world is throwing assignments at you, you have to settle down and do it!

Its a boy!

Marley arrived!! and I have been busy building him. Marley seems to be male, as the pelvis is male shaped.


Marley in his box:it was a struggle to get this into my room from the lift, considering it was only 14 kgs, its disgraceful, and I need to go to the gym more often.



My first glimpse: Upon opening the box this is what I saw, I don't know what I was expecting to see, but my initial reaction was "where is the head? does this thing have a skull"



Yay: My inner geek was pretty excited at this point, to see my skeleton, then there was the relief of seeing I would not have to put all the bones together.


Marley's legs are the same size as mine but he is taller than me by 10cm,
Conclusion: I might have long legs, which is a good thing if you are a woman like me.



Having connected the legs I let him chill on my bed whilst I admired my handy work. Sorry I was in the middle of changing my bed linen, when he arrived.



Med made, skeleton assembled, Result =1 happy medical student

I bought a skeleton!!

Yes guys...after all this time I bought a skeleton!

He is set to arrive on Wednesday,I am soo excited. Actually excited is a big understatement, I am bubbling with expectation.

In fact on Friday, I was in BHS with some friends, and I saw a lovely plum felt hat, and I thought it would look perfect on a skeleton in my room.(this was before I even ordered my skeleton).

I am thinking of calling him/her Marley.





I shall call him Marley, and he shall be mine,and he shall be my Marley 

Shrinking food

I have either had a growth spurt or my rice cakes have shrunk! I was filling out my workbook when suddenly I became peckish, I wanted something savoury but easy to prepare.I went to my cupboard and got some rice cakes... but it was not as I expected.

I can't remember them ever being this thin.Its lost its right to be called a rice cake!! it should be called a rice cookie!!

My granny bought me these rice cakes, they are the lighter option.Rice cakes in them selves are pretty low cal, so i dont see why anyone would need or want low cal rice cakes.Although this could be the reason why they are half the thickness.

I had 2 with hummus, and I still was hungry, so I have a pizza in the oven, for later.

I am beginning to wonder if I have gotten really fat without noticing....I mean why is my granny  buying me LOW CAL RICE CAKES....and why am I having a greasy fat laden pizza after rice cakes?

What do you guys think?