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inspirational music for the medical student 1.3
0 Comments Published 4 months, 1 week ago in medical school, inspirational music, for the med studentEver feel so frustrated with life that you simply just can’t go on? Now, multiply that feeling by 1,000,000 and you’ll have what the typical medical student feels on a daily basis, whether it be when facing yet another warm and fuzzy doctoring class session or another night on-call or just simply the fact […]
inspirational music for the medical student 1.2
0 Comments Published 5 months ago in medical school, inspirational music, for the med studentSo we’re finally onto our second edition of inspirational music for the medical student. This week’s song selection is by my favorite band ever (though my enthusiasm is a bit dimmed by the fact that he went from solo acoustic to a band and became more mainstream, but I guess you do what you […]
inspirational music for the medical student 1.1
0 Comments Published 5 months, 3 weeks ago in medical school, inspirational music, for the med studentI don’t know about everyone else out there, but I simply love music. Always have. Maybe it has something to do with how INTPs don’t express emotions well, but music has always been an emotional outlet of sorts for me. Depending on my mood, I’ll pick a song or two and play them endlessly all […]
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» The 10 dirtiest jobs in science. Hey, they forgot to include being your major professor’s bitch. Okay, I guess that isn’t quite as literally dirty as those on the list, but it sure feels like it is.
» Yum! Now that’s something I can live with: eating curry to stave off cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers in Singapore found that people (aged 60-93) who ate curry even only occasionally scored higher on the Mini Mental Status Exam (MMSE) than those who never ate curry. The curry spice, turmeric, contains curcumin, which has potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. And the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease in the elderly in India is fourfold less than that in the United States.
» There’s a great article today about how the MIT Dean of Admissions wants to reduce admissions anxiety in teenagers. How about parents getting off of their kids’ backs? That would help. But I do admire her for trying to create a friendlier system that might just ease the pressure enough to not give parents such reason to push their kids so hard. Too bad it probably won’t happen any time soon. And go ahead and try to tell Asian parents to stop pushing their kids to the point of insanity. I dare you.
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