3rd year begins!

I realized that I haven't been as active in posting lately. The summer was a busy one and then school just seemed to start again, all of a sudden.

Classes have been in session now for two weeks and I'm slowly getting back into the swing of things. Not to mention that the format is very different this year. Our classes seem to be done in bulk blocks as apposed to spread out over the semester. For example, I have parasitology and microbiology four days a week for three weeks and then parasitology is officially done and microbiology doesn't start up again until May for another three week block. And we have our first "midterm" on Tuesday! But then other classes we have consistently throughout the year, like Medical Polish (which I decided that I want to take as this is a weakness of mine - yes, I speak Polish fluently but I don't know most of the names of diseases in Polish and when I take internal medicine later in the year, I'll likely be the Polish "translator" student for my group, so I need to know my stuff).

So far though, I must say I'm enjoying the year so much more than last year. The classes that I have this year are so much more interesting because they seem so much more relevant to medicine. Plus we start actual clinical classes! THIS is what I've been waiting for.