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Entropy

II.I.II ENTROPY Try as I might, change led its way through. It was inevitable. The momentum had been building up, and something just had to give. The ball I was standing on had started rolling, and before long, it felt like I was trying to balance on it while it kept moving ahead at light-speed. Much like what had happened […]

Added on November 3, 2015 First Year , Alive

I.II.V – S.W.S.D.

I.II.V S.W.S.D. “Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life” goes this famous saying that pops up on my Facebook feed from time to time. Good stuff. Tear-jerking really. A bit vomit-inducing, perhaps. Scratch that – definitely vomit-inducing. I’m this close to needing a barf bag. Seriously, this close. The […]

Added on October 27, 2015 First Year , Alive

Reality Check

I.II.IV REALITY CHECK It only took a few days in med school for me to swallow my words and realise that I was completely wrong about everything. There I was, surrounded by the crème de la crème of university students, these overachieving brainiacs, and I was struggling to keep afloat after being thrown right into the deep end. Being the […]

Added on October 20, 2015 First Year , Alive

Starting Line

I.II.III STARTING LINE Picture this. It’s a crisp, sunny September day in 2015 and it also happens to be this fresh-faced idiot’s first day of med school, staring brightly at the battered, dilapidated building that would hold me hostage for the next two years – all full of goals and dreams and aspirations. Aaah – how amazing it all felt! […]