Part I
Love
Stasis gives way to entropy, metamorphosis and the first signs that relationships can change faster than certainty can keep up.
Memoir of a Med Student · Year II · 2016–2017
Second Year
When life grew louder
Love, entropy and a world beyond lectures.
Second year began with the illusion that I had settled into medical school, until relationships shifted and certainty began to unravel.
The story moves through love, loss and a life-changing journey across Colombia, as medicine becomes only one of the forces shaping the person behind the student.
II
Second year of the memoir
2016
The story changes course
21
Journal entries
III
Parts
Read Year II
Three parts. One year in motion.
Year II is divided into Love, Loss and Life. Choose a part, then open any entry directly from the chronological reading list.
Part II
Loss
Goodbye becomes anger, solitude and inheritance before the story turns inward, then finally begins looking for a way out.
Part III
Life
Departure opens the world beyond university as Colombia becomes the setting for risk, reconnection, recovery and the journey home.
Not all those who wander are lost.J.R.R. Tolkien The Fellowship of the Ring
The complete medical-school journal
Continue beyond Year II.
Second Year is where the medical-school memoir widens into love, upheaval, travel and the first major attempt to build a life beyond the curriculum.
The second year ended far from where it began.
Continue into a year of change, Nepal, volunteering, rock bottom and the difficult work of rebuilding a life with greater intention.
Continue with Third Year.