This morning, I woke up after hitting the snooze button several times on my alarm clock. Eventually I heard the sound of the coffee grinder that my roommate uses. Thankfully that woke up me on time for classes. I had time to make breakfast and pack myself a lunch too! (Too bad I left my lunch at home though. Doh!)

Psychiatry was interesting and all, but I was just extremely tired that morning. Plus, my laptop was not picking up any internet. So after the first two hours of Psych, I decided to leave the lecture room and take a nap. I pushed two chairs together and did just that. The chair faintly smelled like something I have smelled in the anatomy lab though. Eww. I wonder if the PA students had chilled in their anatomy scrubs after anatomy during this past summer. They definitely have to clean though comfy, yet smelly, couches.

After Psych, they were giving some "studying strategies" lecture and included free Papa Johns pizza. They had provided vegetarian pizza too! So I definitely stayed for that. The lecture was actually quite interesting (although I'm sure others may believe otherwise). They presented different personality times and how this corresponds to how you study best for an exam. I'm not quite sure which category I fall under. I find that I'm always trying something new from one extreme to another. Most recently, for example, I've become crazy organized with this iCal application on my new MacBook. I've devised a studying schedule to keep me on track with classes while allocating free time for working out and socializing. Surely, I do not always follow it, but it works as a great guideline nonetheless.

I've also realized from this lately, just how much time and things we gotta sacrifice to meet certain goals. I've seen the preview of some new Jim Carrey movie about this guy who always says, "No" to everything until he has a breakthrough and starts saying "Yes" to everything instead. Haha, I think about this and realize that I've generally always found it very difficult to just say, "No" to certain things for the sake of my personal or educational goals. It really sucks to build up so much excitement for some things only to give up and let it go. But sometimes, you just have to make sacrifices and do what is most necessary rather than what is most desired.

Recently, this has pretty much been the theme: knowing when to be stubborn and stick to a routine and say "No" to all these temptations and urges and make time to make up for it later. As long as you don't give up focus on what you want, anything that you have to necessarily turn down for the sake of reality will eventually come again. As Rock Lee says, "The Lotus in Konoha blooms twice."

Basically, I'm in med school right now, and that means I will have to turn down a lot of invitations and plans for the sake of all this studying that med school classes require. This sucks, but I hope I will find some time to make up for the lost time later.

Anyways, after lunch, Histology completely fried our brains as we reviewed the structures of so many structures, organelles, cells, and tissues. My brain hurts now. So I'm going to work out and make my muscles hurt so that I don't notice how much my brain hurts. Gateway Theory of Pain, right? :-)