Who're the psychos walking around the med building? oh, they're just med students

So we got to do/were taught how to do one of the coolest things I think I've learned in med school - use an opthalmogigy to look into someone's eye. The course director made us students wake up half an hour early to get to class early in order to dilate only one of our pupils (making them a whole lot bigger than normal, even in bright lights). We then got to use our overly-priced flashlight+magnifying lens combo device to look into each other's eyes. I never understood the purpose of doing this before, mainly because I didn't know what exactly you are actually able to see through one of those things. A lot of the textbooks make it seem like all you'll be able to see is the width of a single blood vessel, which would look like a blur of red through the lens. BUUUUT I finally got to see that that's not the case! It was pretty amazing - you actually can see the back of the eye, and all the blood vessels, and the area where all the information from your eye begins to go into your brain. I literally said "WOOOOAHHH!" when I saw all that. It was fantabulous.

Oh yeah, and due to all of our pupils being abnormally dilated, the whole class pretty much looked like they were on something, walking around with one normal eye and one totally messed up eye. That part wasn't too fun - if any of you have ever been to the eye doctor, I'm sure they used the same eye drops on you to dilate your eyes, and it messes up with your focusing and makes any bright light hurt like crazy. But it was worth it, being able to see what the doctor sees when they're inches from your face and all you want to do is laugh out loud. They actually do see something. It's pretty cool :)

Doctor doctor

we learned more details in how to read ekg's today! yeyy! we finally learned something that actually feels useful in being a doctor

kiehl's imperiale moisturizing cuticle treatment

i just wanted to make a plug for this cuticle cream from kiehl's


it's definitely the best stuff ever. you can use it once a week and your cuticles will still look great.

Conan

Michele got us tickets to Conan O'Brien for last Wednesday (thanks mishka!!), and it was awesome! I got to shake his hand...but then he purred at me and creeped me out a little. Anthony Hopkins was there - he's such a cute man! I hadn't realize quite how old he was. And he's very soft spoken. The only thing that stank was that he gave away the ending to his new movie. And it all happened so fast that I wasn't sure what was going on until it was too late.

And I found out that Mute Math is absolutely nutsos in concert.

wilting gerbera

gerberas wilt kind of funny. there's no browning of the petals, or of the stem. they just literally wilt and start falling over. and the petals get really droopy. it almost looks like it could be a flower whose petals grow down. weird

iphone unlocked

they finally unlocked the iphone for free:

http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/iunlock-released-the-first-free-open-source-iphone-sim-unlock/

that's pretty nifty

A preacher the other day said something similar to this that made me think -

People are constantly complaining about the churches they go to because they do not feel like they are being fed. According to said preacher, it's one of the main reasons why people change churches - they feel like they're not growing at all and are stagnant. While it may be so that these people aren't getting what they need, it also may be that these people aren't using the food they're being given. Most people who are fed will not be healthy if they lie around and are stagnant lazy bums who don't exercise. The same goes for spiritual food - in order to truly grow and become healthy you need to exercise what is being given to you, apply it so you can grow and become stronger in your faith. It's no good letting the food sit in you, eventually turning into fat and adding weight to your body. We'd all be obese people if we let that happen.

this is me

I'll do whatever it takes
To turn this around
I know what's at stake
I know that I've let you down
And if you give me a chance
And give me a break
I'll keep us together, I know you deserve much better

But remember the time I told you the way that I felt
That I'd be lost without you and never find myself
Let's hold onto each other above everything else
Start over, start over

Who did this?

I can now die happy - I have discovered explodingdog.com

Who did this?

Pigeeeon

There was a pigeon in our apartment the other day. It was a pain in the butt at first, flapping around and making all sorts of weird noises. But then I realized what it was and it scared the crap out of me. Until it pissed me off and wouldn't leave, so I had to take action :D

Glooorious!!

I just got back from one of the most awesomest vacations eeevvveerrr. I went on a cruise to the Bahamas with Michele and Monica and Romina (cousins from Florida), and we had so much fun. Pictures to come soon

Fire day

We had a fire day today

Not a snow day

A fire day

Annenberg, the building that houses the med school, caught fire on one of the floors today

So we have a fire day

Yey for no school!

Vega 4

I went to another Augustana concert last night and, as usual, they were awesome. This was the first time I've ever seen them headlining, so it was really really ridiculously sweet to hear them play a full set. As amazing as they were, their headliner shocked me as being quite good themselves. Check them out on Myspace http://myspace.com/vega4, and make sure you listen to the song "Life Is Beautiful," it's a great song. These guys sound a lot like Snow Patrol, not just their accents but the overall feel to their music as well. They're gonna be big, you wait and see.

Making history

A friend of mine from the med school (mr tom hays) and two of his friends from dc went to see the statue of liberty on one of the coldest weekends to date (this upcoming weekend is looking to be a close contender though, with negative wind chills and all). Aside from the freezing weather, it was a beautiful day out, definitely one that made for great picture taking, and the company was great, so I had a wonderful time :)

mr tom hays and i, freezing on line for tickets.

skyline from the boat

it was so cold out and the wind was so bitingly terrible that we ended up standing behind the big white thing in between pictures

playing with huge gusts of wind

lady liberty

tom spotted a hat a wee ways off the path and decided he wanted it. we all thought it was a park ranger's hat, but it ended up being this felt thing...

catching pigeons underneath felt hats is risky business, but someone's gotta do it

our contribution to ellis island -
one of these things is not like the other...

history in the making :)

only in new york

Ginormous rat...yeah i have no clue...

I think I'll go to Boston

I met up with some friends from the Journey a few Friday's ago, and a few of us decided that it'd be a great idea to go to Boston for the weekend

Friday night, planning the trip

LA meets NY

Yeeyy boston!!

Wandering around downtown

Colt, Carole's friend, graciously gave us some floor space to sleep on

Texan LA bros + NY Jersey girl

So happy...and probably laughing at clips sticking out of people's heads

Allison totally knew where we were going

Pics from med school

Class is a great time to catch a few zzzz's, even in med school
Three in a row, gotta be some kind of record

Best method to prevent ink from being imprinted all over your face

Last week of the mustache contest - the lineup. some of them couldn't quite get it

For New Years I went with Jedd, a friend of mine from the med school, to a dinner party. It was uber fun getting all dressed up

Must've been celebrating some sort of football victory...and Madhav's not too happy about it

Ice skating at Bryant Park

Mount Sinai's very own Irish dancer

Yes, med students do dress up for Halloween

Random pics from 2006

Random pics from the last week of the year...

At the Brazilian restaurant...aka all you can eat meat :) it was a good nightMichele and Donovan acting like retarded ponies

Paparrazi overload

Michele and Christy being...well, Michele and Christy while we were waiting at the Bodies exhibit. It was an awesome exhibit to see, and everyone should go visit at some point

Ahh, the famous tree at Rockefeller

Michele's always nuts for nuts

Paaartaaay!

Christmas came and went too fast!! I didn't get to take many pictures, mainly because I was too busy eating all the food that comes along with the holiday, but here are a few from a holiday party in the city...

Little did I know I was going to take a random road trip with these strangers just a few weeks later...read on in the blogs to find out more

Evan had received a date idea book as a white elephant gift and had everyone sign up for a date....I've yet to get my date btw

Awesome art

It's really pretty and picturesque from afar, but when you get closer we found out that the guy wrote at least an essay's worth all over the painting - most of the 'art' is actually words, like the crops in the fields are all just words - and they all either say a narrative, say something about someone, or just say cute little tidbits...like the one below talks about a river 'from which all groovy vibes flow.' Be sure to check it out next time you're in the museum


I went to the Metropolitan Art Museum a few times this semester, but I never noticed this painting until the end of December -

Pickle this

Some friends of mine and I were in the mood for pickles one day, so we went downtown to visit some apparently well known pickle stores to pick up pickles.

The Pickle Guys - if I had to give my 2 cents, I'd say they've got the best pickled tomatoes, pickled olives, and pickled half sours in NYC

Guss' pickles - Guss doesn't have the whole pickling thing down too well, but Guss does know the best recipe for a full sour pickle. It also felt sketchy, the storefront being on the sidewalk and all.

The Pickle Guys had tubs full of pickled everything - this pickle guy was pretty nice, he let us try everything they had pickled...and I mean everything