Hello Everyone!
This past week finally was the last week I had to study for
midterms. It's been a long 2.5 weeks and I'm about as burnt out as
you can be, which definitely cost me a few productive hours of
studying for neurophysiology. Nonetheless I'm uber excited for the
upcoming St. Patty's Day weekend. A bunch of us are going into the
city to do something called the 'bar crawl'? I believe it's because
they expect people to have to crawl from bar to bar at the end
because all the green frothy beverages caught up with them. I'm
really just excited to share some laughs and see the Chicago River
colored GREEEN!
This week was the first time I've ever been to the naturopathic
clinic on campus; it's always good to expand your borders. They
bring another view to the world of medicine and one that DCs should
be trying to understand more because I believe in the future they
will cross paths even more than in the past with integrated care
catching on rapidly in the States. My purpose for going in was to
have my diet analyzed from a ND's perspective to see if they caught
any obvious things that could have dropped my hormone production.
They didn't notice anything super dramatic, but the intern wanted
me to retest my testosterone levels this Thursday before we do
anything else to make sure that it wasn't a bad lab test or
something erroneous.
I've also come to the conclusion that I'm going to rehaul my
time management skills. I want to start recording how long I study
for certain tests, how much free time I allot myself during the
weekends, etc., etc. It sounds rather OCD and will therefore be
really hard for me because I have a problem with data entry and
minute tasks, but if I'm able to optimize my time I could get even
better grades and have even more fun. Let's face it who wouldn't
want that?
In addition, I would have less stress knowing that for a "B" I
need on average (X) hours of studying and for an "A" I need (Y).
Then I can plan my finals appropriately without feeling stressed
and always asking myself, "Did I study enough?" Of course this
might take a trimester to figure out but it will be a personal
growth experiment that could pay dividends for years to come. I'll
have more on this in the coming weeks.
That's it for me this week. I'll recharge and hopefully have
some good stories and pictures from Green Chi Town next
week.
Adios,
Christian