My new goal:

is to either do a marathon (at least half) or triathalon by the time I graduate from med school... A bunch of my classmates ran this morning and made me realize how much I WANT TO DO IT TOO! I want to be that cool! I'm totally falling for peer pressure, as well as a desire to do something substantial while creeping through my education.

The complication is that I'm very much a swimmer and not a runner. I'm not quiet sure how to breath on land! When to start, where to start?

underachiever

"I'll be in the student lounge studying all week" is a common statement to hear from my classmates, especially the week before an exam. However, hearing it from a classmate today, TODAY which is still SUMMER vacation, a week before classes even begin for the year, was like a punch to the stomach. That's it, I am an underachiever. But I am not. I am just seizing the opportunity to spend the summer free of studying; though not free of: clinical research, shadowing physicians, planning extra curricular programing for the fall, and remembering what if feels like to be a real human being in the multidisciplinary outside world.

I WILL enjoy my last week of summer and I will not let my peers make me feel like an underachiever. My challenge this year is going to be finding a way not to compare myself to my classmates. I need to do the best I can for myself and my future patients. Spending hours agonizing over how much they are studying, the amount of details they seem to retain that I don't. and comparing exam scores will not help. In fact, I'm pretty sure such things would make me go insane. Me going insane? Well, that wouldn't be good for anyone involved.