“i mean, you’re smart. it can’t be that hard, can it?”
i love breakfast. favourite meal of the day. and Topher’s description of what it’s like to be in medical school is more accurate than anything i’ve heard yet…
Medical school is like trying to eat five pancakes every morning for breakfast.
You know you can do it. A Premed advisory committee endorsed you saying, “He has the stomach for it. He’s committed.” And you prove them all right. Every day you show up with your first-year optimism and your annoying hunger for learning and you clean that plate (just kidding, it’s adorable). But you begin to notice that those pancakes are slowing you down a little each day and the sugar highs and lows are screwing with your sleep. Smart person that you are, you decide to pass on the flapjacks one day. You think to yourself, “Self, I’m going to eat ten pancakes tomorrow so that I don’t have to eat any today.”
But it never stops. Turns out that “self” isn’t the most responsible lender, and before you know it there are 40 pancakes in front of you and your plate needs to be clean by tomorrow. So yeah, at this point it looks impossible. But really, it’s your fault.
be sure to check out the movie adaptation as well.
and on that note, i’ve decided not to eat my pancakes tonight. i’ll just pour on extra syrup and have another cup of coffee with my second helping tomorrow.
Wow. you are actually starting to seem normal, and not annoyingly super-human!
Take that as a complement!
I haven’t eaten any of my pancakes in a week. I guess that means I have about 200 of them on my plate this weekend…it’s so hard getting back into things.
Ooh… I love that analogy.
I love pancakes too. But five every morning!? Now I can’t watch pancakes on TV anymore, yet all I want to do is talk about pancakes! Toast just isn’t the same…
[...] her name is Yoshimi* because i need a good black belt in karate at my side to help defeat those evil machines. she would never let those robots eat me. and the inscription on the back is in reference to what it’s really like to go to med school. [...]