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Endings and beginnings

This seems like a fitting time for an end-of-year and middle of the third year of medical school summary. First, how about a photo? This was taken in Roanoke at the end of one of my recent rotations, during a giant snowstorm that dropped about two feet of snow on us. It was beautiful. Cold, ...

The Cascades Waterfall

Since I haven’t been able to go out and explore the area nearly as much as I wanted to over the past year, I’ve decided that I’m going to attempt to go out on a hike of some kind at least one day every weekend, and since it’s also board cramming season, a few friends ...

McAfee Knob

With board study season upon us and with my inability to learn pretty much anything without having someone to talk things through with, I wanted to combine the two and luckily enough two friends agreed to join me for a hike up to McAfee knob. The plan was to quiz each other on a few ...

The scenic route

How did I end up as a first-year med school student at 32? A few dumb decisions, a detour or two, and learning how things work out – eventually. When I was in High School, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. Having doctors in my family going back several generations, I was always ...

Cherry Blossoms

This past weekend, after completing my last final exam of the second year of medical school, I returned to NOVA to see my family for a few days before going back for the home stretch before taking my step 1 boards. While there, we ventured to D.C. for the annual Cherry Blossom festival and knowing ...

End of Year 2

I just took the last final exam of my second year of medical school, and it’s an interesting feeling. While there’s definitely a sense of accomplishment, considering how much work went into even getting accepted to medical school, much less completing the first two years successfully, there’s a much stronger sense of just how little ...

Blacksburg from Above

On the last (probably) day of snow this year, right before the temperatures went back up to the mid-70’s, I wanted to capture the atmosphere from a different vantage point, so I took a few photos with my flying toy quadcopter, making sure not to get too close to the local airport’s airspace or accidentally ...

Spring Snow

With the third big snowstorm hitting the East Coast in the last month, we all managed to both get a day off school and a few inches of snow, so before settling back into a long day of study, a few friends and I decided to venture outside.

First Day of Spring

Today is the first day of spring. It’s also the last day of a three week, six-exam marathon. Instead of dwelling on that very relatable medical school fact, I’ll just talk about a trip I took to Richmond for the American College of Physicians Virginia Chapter conference last week. Being a member of the organization ...

Multicultural Show

Every year, the SNMA student organization at VCOM puts on an event called the Multicultural Show. It is a celebration of all of the diversity among our students and this year, including some amazing food, art including a beautiful sculpture by one of our anatomy professors, dance numbers from Argentina and India, and much more. ...