Fee hikes protest @ UCLA.
on Nov 19, 2009 in UCLA Class I woke up to the sounds of the protest and helicopters early this morning.Check out this YouTube video.And this news article from the LA Times.Other links of interest for more info:UCLA NewsroomDaily Bruin w/a live stream of the Regents meeting.

That's the flexor digitorum superficialis.
on Nov 14, 2009 in UCLA med lessons Class Earlier this week, I had my first up close encounter with a cadaver. It was decapitated, but it wasn't so bad. The fingers, drained of all humanity and feeling so rubbery and cold, were perhaps the creepiest part of all (but thinking about and seei...

A Christmas Carol & Chicken Fajitas & Bowling!
on Nov 14, 2009 in UCLA fun friends adventure weekend LA gaming food My friend, P, had invited me to go out and see a movie on Wednesday (Veteran's Day), so we briefly discussed what we should watch. Since "Men Who Stare at Goats" seems like it's not my type of movie, he suggested A Christmas Carol (2009). That's def...

Grey's Anatomy Nightmare
on Nov 1, 2009 in scary nightmare tv odd Even though I've stopped watching Grey's Anatomy, for some reason I had a nightmare about it last night.STOP reading if you're squeamish. I was watching it all happen a few feet from me, but it was as though I wasn't really there -- more like an invi...

My first MMORPG experience
on Oct 29, 2009 in procrastinating random fun music gaming So.....The last few days, I've been sort of hooked. Just about 3 days ago, my roommate "introduced" me to a Youtube show called "The Guild" -- 3 seasons with over 20 episodes so far. It's a show about this group of gamers and some of it is really f...

11:30pm last night...
on Oct 22, 2009 in thoughts Writing UCLA life Class conversation At that time, I had been sitting at my desk, slowly working through the Chem 14CL practice midterm that Professor Henary had given us a week earlier. It was an odd feeling that I had... I had never felt so calm about a chemistry (let alone an organi...

NaNoWriMo 2009!
on Oct 18, 2009 in Writing random fun occasion Yep, that's right. November is "National Novel Writing Month."Earlier today, I was reading a blog that I follow called "Mothers in Medicine" and there's a post on there about NaNoWriMo. I decided to check it out, and I was so elated and happy and ex...

Can you post your schedule? Yes, I can.
on Oct 16, 2009 in UCLA med amtrak fun busy pictures Class home A commenter recently asked if I could post up my schedule this quarter to give curious folks (e.g. potential life sci majors) an idea. Here it is:You can now see why I haven't blogged in like.. 10 days. To give you an idea of a general day with tha...

It's not you. It's me.
on Oct 6, 2009 in thoughts random God I'm writing this because of a few recent encounters with others that prompted me to, after having assessed my reactions to those situations, give myself a little pat on the back. =POne of the things I didn't tell you all after the Lenten season earli...

Physci 107 & O-chem lab
on Sep 30, 2009 in UCLA Class I love Physci 107 =D It covers exactly what I'm interested in. AND the labs are awesome. My first lab was on Monday and yes, yes 'tis true, there were human brains!!!! REAL human brains. We get to study real humans in this lab so it's pretty coo...