Countdown to departure is now T-Minus 37 days, 18hours, and 20-ish minutes until I leave for Maastricht! (not that I'm counting...)
I"m really getting excited, I've ordered all my books, and they're arriving in the mail, and most excitingly: my backpack came in the mail yesterday. Now only a few things stand between me and my European Semester abroad: 1. My MCAT. I take it (again) on Aug 12, ten days before departure... 2. My Med School Applications (haven't quite submitted those yet- will do this week!) and 3. Planning where all I want to go!
I discovered a cool way to plot out where I "dream" of going while Im over there: google maps. I made my own map and I dropped pins on all the places I wanted to go! that way I could visually see where all I think I want to visit! I think it's pretty neat. I need to talk to some of my friends who have gone on a Maastricht trip to get more recommendations on places to visit, hostels, etc... just one more thing for the to-do list!
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I'm also getting excited for my classes. I'm half way through reading one of my summer books Complications by Atul Gwande. I've read Dr. Gwande's book Better for one of Dr. Attas' classes, and I enjoyed it, and I definitely am liking Complications as well. Its interesting reading about cases that Dr. Gwande has treated, and then finding some very similar ones that I've seen working in the Emergency Room this summer.
It's an interesting point right now... I can feel the summer coming to an end, and school getting ready to start up, but then I feel like it's an eternity away. I guess now Its time to go back to studying!
I"m really getting excited, I've ordered all my books, and they're arriving in the mail, and most excitingly: my backpack came in the mail yesterday. Now only a few things stand between me and my European Semester abroad: 1. My MCAT. I take it (again) on Aug 12, ten days before departure... 2. My Med School Applications (haven't quite submitted those yet- will do this week!) and 3. Planning where all I want to go!
I discovered a cool way to plot out where I "dream" of going while Im over there: google maps. I made my own map and I dropped pins on all the places I wanted to go! that way I could visually see where all I think I want to visit! I think it's pretty neat. I need to talk to some of my friends who have gone on a Maastricht trip to get more recommendations on places to visit, hostels, etc... just one more thing for the to-do list!
View Mark's Maastricht Trip Planning in a larger map
I'm also getting excited for my classes. I'm half way through reading one of my summer books Complications by Atul Gwande. I've read Dr. Gwande's book Better for one of Dr. Attas' classes, and I enjoyed it, and I definitely am liking Complications as well. Its interesting reading about cases that Dr. Gwande has treated, and then finding some very similar ones that I've seen working in the Emergency Room this summer.
It's an interesting point right now... I can feel the summer coming to an end, and school getting ready to start up, but then I feel like it's an eternity away. I guess now Its time to go back to studying!
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