Me after fall quarter = a juiced orange

Fall quarter is finally over! Yeah! I just took my last final and it is really good to be done! How do I feel right now? I guess the best way to describe it is that I feel like a juiced orange. (But a very happy juiced orange!) I started medical school as a whole freshly picked Florida orange and right now I feel like a the peel with a little bit of pulp left over inside. I am not saying that this is a bad feeling, I am still very overjoyed to be in medical school, I just have new respect for what medical school takes out of you.

(written a couple weeks later) Everyone has been asking me how fall quarter went. I guess it went well. At least they haven't kicked me out of school yet! Fall quarter was very stressful. Towards the end of the quarter I could see what the stress of medical school was doing to my body. I was having trouble falling asleep at night while I worried about classes and life and general. Also, my stomach started to hurt, particularly before exams. These symptoms started going away immediately after the quarter ended and now are completely gone. I just hope they won't reappear during winter quarter stress.

Sometimes during fall quarter I really started to envy people who can come home after working all day and can just relax and spent time with their family and friends without the stress of feeling like you need to study all the time. I am sure it will all be worth it in the end.


These oranges are what I felt like before medical school started. (Photo from google image search)


This is what fall quarter felt like, particularly Anatomy. (Photo from google image search).