By the way, it's frickin beautiful in the Caribe in the winter. Even if school is a challenge, the surroundings are wonderful, distraction free and filled with cultural opportunities.
Blogging the trek of an non-traditional, older dude through a traditional physician educational process in a non-traditional world. Some people go out and buy a muscle car for their midlife crisis (I miss my '70 Camaro), but I decided to go to medical school. It is in God's hands and it's a RUSH.
Being a 50 something medical-school graduate now isn't as "nuts" as everyone seems to think. Just getting prepared for the rest of my life
"Life isn't about finding yourself; It's about creating yourself" - George Bernard Shaw
"Life isn't about finding yourself; It's about creating yourself" - George Bernard Shaw
Just another Blue Man...
"One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one’s time in religious offerings to the gods." -Dhammapada
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. 
— James Thurber
"Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all." - Helen Keller
"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." - James Bryant Conant (1893-1978), Chemist and educator
