It is definitely time for an update.

The last two weeks have been relatively brutal. We have had 4 big tests, a few labs, a couple of practicals, and more quizzes coming up than I probably have written in my schedule. It's just been difficult to keep up and stay positive! The only thing that has really been pushing me is performing pretty well on the last group of tests...though I did really struggle with the Principles test :( We also had a Path test yesterday over the same material the Principles test was on (Heme/Onc, excellently enough)...so we'll see if I learned anything in the week between those two tests.

Awesomely, I was able to find time to meet my family in Columbia for Easter lunch. I forget how much I miss my parents and brothers until the times I do get to spend with them...embarrassing my mom in public :) I think even if my Path grade isn't up to my usually Path par, it was definitely worth it to see my family and catch up with two good friends during the drive.

I'm planning to get down to Joplin this weekend to try to get my housing finalized for next year. I'm so excited to be down to only about 6 more weeks of sitting in a classroom. I can't believe that I've survived through my second year of medical school. Hopefully the next two go as fast as these first two! I can't wait to get boards out of the way and get ready to start rotations. Every day I find myself way more excited than the day before at the prospect of moving and being in a whole new environment where I'm not surrounded my students in classrooms all day long, but forced to make the world my oyster! It's silly, but I am so pumped.

Until then, I'm just trying to cram in whatever fun I can before I'm without my very favorite people...and trying to not let the grades slip in the last push for excellence :) So close!!!!!!!