M2 year has begun.
I am already exhausted. And I am already failing at being productive. All the pep talks I gave myself this summer have already been forgotten, all of the illusions I had about never procrastinating and studying ahead and remaining focused at all costs have already been shattered.
Here’s just a sampling of a typical study session with my two wonderful (and clearly useless) study buddies:
– “Do you know that ‘Buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo’ is a grammatically correct sentence?” (No, Tink. This will never make sense to me…. but I’m glad we spent at least 30 minutes discussing it today. I’m a better person for it.)
– An overdrawn-out play on the word “angina.”
– “What if you woke up from an acid trip and realized you weren’t really in med school?”
– Spontaneously breaking into a melodious bout of “One Tin Soldier.”
– Getting yelled at for being too loud by an undergrad, who proudly let us know that she was “studying for the MCAT!”
– “Let’s watch the new Nicki Minaj video!”
– Followed by… “These lyrics make no sense, at all.” (Yes, that is what stood out to me the most about that video, too, Sanfo…)
– Followed by… a dramatic recitation and interpretive dance to Sir Mix-a-Lot’s greatest hit.
I think we got through 3 lectures in 3 hours. It appears I shall be up all night studying again… but, at least this stuff is already infinitely more interesting than M1 year.
Good start, guys. Welcome to M2!
Totipotent MD 
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