The title photo for this post should show a shot of my 4-month whiteboard calendar that I used to use to plan out my months in advance. As you can see it still has May on it. I haven’t had an opportunity or even really a need to update it since May. In May I had a variety of events scheduled, but pretty much since then, as the calendar shows, it was all school, all the time. Though I was home over August break for a week, I didn’t bother updating the calendar.

To me it’s a symbol of how hyper-focused my life has been these last few months. Now it’s time to update it for the next few months. There still won’t be much on it, a couple of breaks and the scheduled “core competency exam” which is nothing more than simply a comprehensive test on everything we’ve learned over the previous 3 semesters.

The real interesting stuff starts in May, the second quarter of the year, so it doesn’t show up here. That’s when we get ready for our first clinical rotation and then head out for it.

In any event it’s sort of an interesting perspective on how I spent my last eight months and will spend my next four.