Randomramblings

Your research seems like a lot of work. I have no idea how you manage to do it next to taking lectures and studying for exams. I wish you that National Medical Ethics Committee will agree with your proposal! And good luck with exams (I assume these must be towards your last set of exams, am I right?).

Oh, I did almost think you were dead! :)

All luck with your exams!

I am glad you are stil alive! Wish you good luck with you exams and research. Do you plan to post anything about you research on your blog? I'm becoming a bit courious what's this all about (well maybe it's just because I have never been into any big research project). :)

Enjoy!

What a pleasant surprise! I didn't think you're going to be so swift in replying. :) Thanks for such a nice surprise!

Jin - I proved you wrong! And thanks!

Tina - it didn't seem like this much work in the beginning. But Murphy has so far rarely let me down and the amount of work does seem to increase when you actually start doing it. But I shouldn't complain too much, because I'm really loving it. I like the topic, I like the work... I really like research work, because there is so much new, so much to learn. The only problem is that sometimes it is difficult to coordinate the research with school work. And unfortunately, these're not my last set of exams.

Krtek - Thanks! But unfortunately I'm going to let you down on this one - no, I don't intend to post anything about the topic of my research on the blog. It would be such a giveaway as far as my identity goes. (I don't live under any false belief that I'm 100% anonymous here, but I'm not going so far as to basically give you my name.) If you like research you should really try your hand at it! It's a lot of work, but rewarding at the same time.

Hello!
Your blog is fun to read. Especially since you seem to notice similar things I did when fighting my way through medical school.
I have some advice for you (is it a give free advice day?) to put things into perspective:
- read The House of God (a great book, a lot of laughter involved).
- Medical school is only a school.
- Check Ah, Yes, Medical School (a blog).
- Research should be fun. If it is your first time it is normal that you find the amount of work immense. Later, it can be routine or that special extra keeping you going (on hyperdrive).

Have lots of fun and try not to take your work too serious. Yet. I do strongly recommend that you take my advice number one and three:).

Best wishes,

B.

B - welcome! Thanks for all the compliments and suggestions. I'll certainly add The House of God to my ever-expanding "to read" list. I've read a short summary on Wikipedia and it sounds interesting.

I know it's only a school. But unlike high school or even before that it directly leads to my future job and I cannot deny that I have very high expectations for myself.

I read Ah, Yes, Medical School for a while - I even linked it, but then grew out of it - I think the posts welcoming attractive single Jewish girls really put me of. ;)

It's my first time doing serious research at med school, so it is a bit overwhelming - all the bureaucracy! But I'm really interested in it and I like the research process (I learn so much every day!), so it's definitely a very positive experience for me.

Thanks again for your kind wishes and take care yourself.

Nadezhda: Nisem predlagal, da napiši kaj o raziskovalnem delu za to, da bi te "razkrinkal". To me ne zanima. Sicer pa tudi ne vem, zakaj bi se ti bilo treba skrivati. No, to je tvoja stvar.
Pač zanimivo bi bilo prebrat kakšno iskrico iz projekta s katerim se ukvarjaš. Jaz ponavadi rad delim take stvari z ostalimi.

Krtek - vem, da to niso tvoji nameni. Ampak ta blog bere tudi okoli 30 ljudi, za katere ne vem, kdo so (ker se mi z njihovo identiteto ne da ukvarjati). Želim si, da bi bil blog javen, a pri tem so neke meje. Dobivala sem že maile, v katerih so ljudje trdili, da vedo, kdo sem, katerega leta sem bila rojena ipd. To ni prijetno - da veš, da nekdo tvoj blog bere, da bo dobil še kak košček sestavljanke več.

Drug zadržek ki ga imam - sem v stiku s številnimi ljudmi in z vsakim posebej (podzavestno) izbiram nivo intimnosti oz. kako globoko se bom nekomu razkrila glede na to, koliko tej osebi zaupam, jo/ga poznam ipd. In ravno zato, ker ne vem, kdo vse bere ta blog, se mi zdi nesmiselno, da bi vedeli, čigava sošolka to piše in se (morda) čudili čemu, kar zapišem sem gor. Konec koncev bom relativno kmalu javni uslužbenec in niti najmanj me ne zanima, da bi moji bodoči bolniki z enim pogledom v profil vedeli, kaj je njihova zdravnica pisala pred nekaj leti.

Marsikomu se zdijo moji ukrepi čudni ali ekstremni, ampak na internetu nihče ni tako anonimen kot bi si morda želeli. Tega se zavedam. Ampak v zobe se ne mislim dajati. Žal so nekatere pretekle izkušnje preveč boleče in sem zato raje previdna.

Ne razumem pa najbolj, kaj misliš z "iskricami".

Te razumem, morda bi moral tudi sam kdaj premisliti. Ponavadi če je kaj takega, kjer bi se preveč izpostabvil, ne napišem.

Iskrice - zanimivi doživljaji, ki ste dovolj dotaknejo in razburijo, da jih ovekovečiš.