A.L.M.O.S.T. home....whew

19 days from now I should be landing in MSP! Waahoo! This semester has been quite the whirlwind with school and trying to wrap up my time on the island. Hmmm I don't think a whole lot has happened socially. My birthday has come and gone, yet again in another country. A few of us went out to dinner at The Stone and then out after that for a bit. I'm definitely going to miss the amazing food in St. Maarten!

Other than celebrating birthdays pretty much every other weekend it's been pretty low key. We had a little guys night after ICM 4 wrapped up with block 3...and since both went quite well it made it a fun night with a little bit of everything SXM has to offer.

Right now school is school and i'm pretty burnt out. 4th semester is kind of in coast mode and now I'm more focused on studying for step. Tonight I just finished 50% of the Kaplan Qbank...a whopping 1144 questions in the bag! This weekend hopefully I can find some time to set up a study plan for break and next semester...the last thing I want to be doing at this time next semester is worrying about the 3rd comp!

It's kind of crazy to think I've been down here for 15 months and only have 5 more to go...the time has absolutely flown by. On one hand I'll miss a few things around here but for the most part I'm ready to move on to the next phase of Step 1 and clinicals.

Oh I also got to shoot another engagement a little over a month ago! Photography has really taken a back seat to school and step studying but it was a fun little project. Here are a few of the shots:

Noxolo

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Block 1 is done and block 2 is under way. Behavioral sucks, neuro was disappointing, but path was crushed. On to the next set I guess. It's really heating up and getting humid...now i remember why I loved the dorms and the free AC!

Just think...a little over6 month's from now I'll be heading home for good if everything goes to plan!

Graduation was this weekend so it's been fun to see some of the grads coming back to walk at graduation. I'm glad to see they actually exist and seem happy!

Noxolo

4th semester, up and running

We're already a week and a half into block 1 of 4th semester and tests are a little over a week away. Time is flying by per usual. I guess I just get used to losing track of the day and time. My life really doesn't change on a day to day basis....wake up, school, study, maybe some soccer and then do it all over again. I went to the white coat ceremony last night to watch a friend get awarded the student of the semester and it amazed me how quickly time has gone since I was sitting where all the 1st semesters were. On the same note, how QUICK it'll be before i'm sitting where honors society was sitting. Everyone said that the time would fly but you never really know until your immersed in it.

Oh well, back to some neuro and path 2....hello saturday!

Noxolo

It's been a while...

It's been a pretty crazy past month and a half or so! Block 3 ended up going well, block 4 seemed to go alright until I got my phys grade back and it was my lowest test score here at AUC by 20%! It sucks when you drop 11% in a class simply because of one poorly written test. Oh well. The same thing happens as always when it comes to finals....i'm burnt out! I try and study because it is usually the difference between deans list and missing it but everyone, including myself, just get too burnt out to really care anymore. I did what I could and ended up doing pretty well on all my finals...in fact I got the same grade for all three of them! I THINK it'll be enough for deans list but it's going to be pretty close! All in all i'm glad 3rd semester is over with! I really liked 3rd semester, at least content wise, but the amount of information was ridiculous at times. I can't believe it's been just under 1 year that i've been on this island...crazy really. My family was down for the past week which was fun and now I have another 8 days or so before school kicks back up....breaks go by soooo fast!

I'm going to try and really start my Step 1 prep this semester so by the time i start 5th sem I will be through FA once, through the Kaplan Qbank for the classes im done with, and hopefully ID some of my weak parts. I'll probably try and set up a schedule in the next few days, maybe ill post it up if there is anyone who actually reads this lol


Cheers

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blah, block 3 is done....finally! It was a pretty redic block...the tests were OKAY at best and the material was interesting yet copious! Should be a pretty busy week....St. Patty's day, NCAA tourny starting, soccer tournament on Friday, and Wine and Cheese on Saturday.....it never ends!

Noxolo

Quick but productive

The weekend went by fast, per usual, but was weirdly productive. I got through all of my endocrine path and typed up my own notes on it....yes, 19 pages, single spaced. I feel pretty solid on med micro, but still need to do some work in phys. Less than a week til the regatta, which should be some pretty good motivation to get a lot done this week!

Here we go

Hi weekend!

The weekend is finally here! and by weekend I mean tons and tons of time to study! I suppose I should start it off strong by putting in  some good ol Robbins reading on the porch!

Wish me Luck

Noxolo