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Name: Aileen
State: Illinois
Gender: Female
Interests: Dancin, music, shopping, sleeping, chillin, scrapbooking, being a photo freak, eating junk food, chocolate, more food :)
Occupation: Student
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4/10/2004
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| February is one of my favorite months...mainly because there are so many birthdays (including mine!)  Plus, there's valentine's day (even though that day is kinda depressing), "spring" break, the ISI auction (also on my b-day!), and no test for awhile!
Starting this past January, we did physiology. It's actually been really interesting, and it's making me reconsider my options as a physician. I was totally anti-cardiology because my dad is a cardiologist, and what he did seemed really boring to me when I shadowed him before, but now that I understand what is going on with the heart, it seems really interesting! Now we're learning about the lungs, and I love our teacher for it! Dr. Webber seems like your father-like figure but he gets so excited about teaching. And that makes everyone else excited about learning, too. So I really like the course so far, even if that last test sucked butt 
Tonight, I'm going with my old college roomies (and Frank) to the Melting Pot. I'm so excited! I love chocolate fondue, and it'll be great to see everyone again. I get so caught up with school that I sometimes forget how much I should take advantage of people being so closeby. Sometimes it's frustrating because I feel like if I did want to get together with people, I have to make the effort to come downtown because I'm still in the surburbs. But it's a hassle worth making...but still, I wish people could come down to visit me in the lonely 'burbs.
Yesterday at school, we had this "all-you-can-eat" chili fundraiser for one of the student organizations. I've never had chili before, but damn, it's good! I think I burned my tongue, though  But I cured that quickly by getting cheesecake from the cheesecake factory. I got a chocolate raspberry truffle cheesecake. Sometimes, you just gotta fulfill those cravings!
So things are going well so far...nothing really exciting from this part of town! | | |
| This is my first winter break during medical school, and I'm amazed at
how quickly it has gone by! An older med student told me that
this is the last winter break that I can really appreciate
because next winter, I'll be starting to think about the boards, and
the future winters after that, I'll be thinking about rotation stuff
and residency. Sigh...
But
it's been an amazing winter break! The end of my first semester
was amazing! So we normally have two portions to our anatomy
tests: a written portion and a practical portion. This was the
first year that the written portions have been online. There were
so many technology glitches that that portion of our final got
cancelled! It was unbelievable! In a way I was glad that it
was cancelled because I don't think I would have done well, but in a
way, it made me mad because I had studied for a long time for that
test. But oh well...our professor ended up giving everyone a 100%
just to make sure everyone passes anatomy, so phew! That's all I
could ask for!
Over break, I did a lot of shopping...practically every day! I
also saw a lot of movies: the Producers, Memoirs of a Geisha, Brokeback
Mountain, Narnia, Fun with Dick and Jane, and Munich. Phew!
Quite a bit of money spent on the movies...but I figured I wouldn't
have time to watch these later, so I gotta take advantage of it now!
Before Christmas, I had a potluck with a bunch of my high school
friends. I was worried that it was going to be a disaster since I
was hosting it at my place, but it went really well! We had a ton
of food and it was a lot of fun to see everyone! It made me
realize how lucky I was to have a group of close high school friends,
even after going through four years of college. Even though we
were at different points in our lives, we could still get together and
have a good time 
This Christmas, we celebrated with Asian food. For Christmas eve,
we went to Yokohama, which is a Japanese restaurant near our
house. I think this restaurant tops Benihana as our favorite
place to eat as a family! We decided to have a Christmas eve
dinner because my brother had to work on Christmas day 
On Christmas morning, I went with my parents to Argyle, where I had
lots and lots and lots of sweets...yummy! I got Pho at this
Vietnamese restaurant, and then we bought a ton of stuff from the
chinese bakery and the thai grocery store. For some reason more
than ever now, I've really come to appreciate and love asian food.
For Christmas, I got a new cell phone! I got the RAZR phone from
cingular! I've been looking at that phone for about a year now,
and I was sooooo grateful when cingular discounted the phone around the
holidays, so my parents were finally willing to get it for me.
Yay! I got a gift certificate to Banana from my brother
This past week has been a pretty slow week for me. I've been
doing a lot of catching up on things, like trying to figure out what
I'm doing over the summer. That's been somewhat depressing
because I'm not capable of thinking that far in advance, but I really
want to do something over the summer where I can earn some money, since
med school is a weeeee bit expensive 
Break is slowly coming to an end, but I'm glad that it was an amazingly relaxing break!
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| Aside from all the craziness of anatomy, my first 1/8 of medical school
was incredible. Here are a lot of pictures just to show you guys
my friends from school and all the stuff that went on
White Coat Ceremony
Theresa, Megan, Jen, Bridget, Aileen, and Mandy after our white coat ceremony
Us on the Mystic River Boat Cruise following the white coat ceremony
St. Luke's Day Dinner and Dance
Theresa, Aileen, and Megan at the St. Luke's Dinner Dance at Drury Lane
Dave and Jeff drinkin' up the wine at St. Luke's
Dan eating up part of the flower decorations at the dinner table
Homecoming 2005 at Northwestern
The fall season makes me really miss my Alma Mater
I really miss the walk around campus and running into people I know
Aileen and Colleen in front of Joy Yee's!
Me with two of my lovely ladies at the game against Michigan: Char and Liz!
(too bad we lost horribly, but at least we still made it to a bowl game!)
Post Test Party at Howl at the Moon
Theresa, Bridget, Aileen, and Jen chillin' at Howl at the Moon
Julia and Aileen on the dance floor
Kevin, Julia, Aileen, and Jason on the dance floor
Downtown/Lights Festival
That's the biggest cheesecake I've ever seen!
The bean looks awesome without the plates
Everyone looks so happy ice skating!
It wouldn't be Christmas without the Marshall Field's Windows!
Steph with the Mrs. Field's cookies...boy, they really know how to decorate!
Meeting up with Nadio downtown!
Thanksgiving get-together with the high school peeps at the Melting Pot
Rita, Mimo, and Alex!
Meena, Lambrina, and Aileen!
Damn, the yin & yang chocolate looks amazing!
Tee hee, our chocolate is on fire!!!
Talk about a classy way to eat! 
Nadio's 22nd Birthday!!!
For the first time, we can actually celebrate Nadia's b-day since it's not during finals week!
Frank, Mark, and Sherry at Big Bowl
Nadia blowing our her b-day dessert
Gee, I feel like we're in grade school with the guys on one side and the gals on the other
More pics and updates to come about winter break! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to y'all!
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| Wow, it's amazing how fast time flies when you're having...fun? I
just went through 10 weeks of anatomy, and boy, it was the most intense
10 weeks of my life!
At first, I really hated anatomy. It's a lot easier from this
perspective to say that those 10 weeks of anatomy was probably one of
the most important things I've ever gone through, but at the time, I
really hated it. I didn't like dissecting because the cadavers
smelled. I didn't like the fact that we had to spend time in the
lab dissecting the cadavers. I didn't like the insane number of
hours I spent studying anatomy and time in the lab...to the point where
my dreams were infiltrated with cranial nerves and muscles
Yet looking back, it was all for the best. I learned so much from
spending time with our cadaver. Our cadaver was one very
big man...he had big muscles, very little fat, and must have weighed
over 200 pounds and was 6 feet something tall. He was a really
good man to learn things on, and our anatomy professor wants to use him
as a prosected cadaver for the future, which is a huge honor for our
group. He just had...everything! Yes, I know I sound like a
freak right now, reminiscing over my cadaver, but I never would have
imagined that someone's donation of their body would have such an
impact on our medical education. While at first, I really didn't
have any respect towards the cadaver, now I see it as being such an
integral part of anatomy, and I am definitely considering donating my
body towards science so other students can learn what I have
Anatomy was also a time to really get to know other people. While
in MCBG, I felt like I got to know my small group pretty well, I felt
like we were all a part of this struggle in anatomy. It was a
chance for us to meet new people or talk to people we did not see
frequently. It was an opportunity for our class to bond over one
of the most intense periods of our lives. Most of all, it was a
wonderful opportunity for me to get to know the people in my anatomy
group. I didn't know the other four people in my group very well,
but after anatomy, I feel like we've shared an experience that could
never be duplicated in medical school. I've been really lucky to
have an amazing group and what turned out to be a craaazy anatomy
experience.
I had this epiphany during the last week of anatomy. I realized
how grateful I was to have a close group of friends already during my
first semester of medical school. Just going around the cadavers
together, I didn't feel ashamed not knowing what was going on. I
just couldn't have imagined going through the studying and periods of
"oh my god" without my gals, so if you're reading this, thank you so
much 
So those are my thoughts on anatomy. I'll make another post with happier thoughts!
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