Roadside education
Sarah's car picked the absolute worst time to start making weird clicking noises. We were literally pulling into the library parking lot when it just... gave up. Steam started com…
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Care package casualties
Sarah's mom sent a care package today, which basically turned us into five-year-olds fighting over the last piece of Halloween candy. Care package casualties The box was packed wi…
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Saturday morning survival mode
Bank account balanced, laundry actually folded instead of living in the basket for three weeks, and I even managed to organize my desk drawers without finding any mysterious crumb…
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Chapter 12 versus my sanity
Four energy drinks, two protein bars, and approximately seventeen highlighter colors later, I'm starting to think the circulatory system was designed by someone who really enjoyed…
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Inbox conversations
Three emails this morning from people asking about starting their own workout routines. Five more asking for study tips. Two asking how I got the confidence to join that nursing g…
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Digital archaeology
Staring at this text message for the past twenty minutes and I'm pretty sure I need a PhD in male communication to figure out what "cool, see you around" actually means. Digital a…
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Found money miracle
Carmen came over this afternoon with her usual Wednesday crisis - we're both completely tapped until our next paychecks hit Friday, but we desperately needed caffeine to survive s…
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The Tuskegee files
Started reading this book for my medical ethics class about the Tuskegee experiments and three hours later I'm deep in a Wikipedia spiral about informed consent and medical resear…
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Method to the madness
Three weeks of banging my head against this anatomy textbook and tonight something finally clicked. Method to the madness I've been trying to memorize everything word-for-word lik…
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Death by fake vampire fangs
Carmen found me this afternoon looking like I'd been hit by a truck driven by the Grim Reaper himself. Last night's Halloween party at Phi Chi was... intense. I'm talking three-ho…
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Operation perfect study selfie = epic fail
Spent twenty minutes trying to take one decent photo of myself studying because Matt from my sociology class asked how my Tuesday was going and obviously I need photographic evide…
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Real people read this thing?
Just spent the last hour going through comments on my fitness posts and I'm kind of blown away. Like, there are actual people reading this random blog I started to keep myself acc…
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Processing and planning
Just got off a two-hour phone call with my parents about the whole nursing thing. Processing and planning They're still processing, but I can tell they're trying to be supportive…
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Morning after clarity
Nothing like waking up in yesterday's jeans to make you think about your life choices. Morning after clarity Last night started innocent enough - Carmen and I were supposed to gra…
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Death by flashcards
Seventeen hours straight of studying and I'm pretty sure I can name every bone in the human body but I've forgotten how to form complete sentences. Death by flashcards My desk loo…
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