2016 – Year One (MS1)

MS1: Course One

On my first anatomy lab (or the importance of getting caught with your pants down)
On it (and distancing language from death and the dead)
On white coats and black belts (or the importance of becoming a student of failure)
On sober Eugene (or embracing the minimum effective dose and test anxiety)
On finding your tribe (or being ‘that guy’ and accepting dislike)
On Shame and data points (or treating failure as an act, not an identity)
On death and study breaks (or keeping perspective through the grind)
On finals, boot camp, and hindsight (or Course One: a post-mortem)

MS1: Fall Break

MS1: Course Two

MS1: Winter Break

MS1: Course Three

On depression and horses (or nature as a nutrient and the problem with hammers)
On setting goals and the practice of goal-setting
On ‘hell yes’ or ‘no’ (or the guilt of declining plans and dealing with the inevitable FOMO)
On positive and negative alarms (or a meditation on hourglasses and tattoos)
On Death (or: Life, as told through four prompts)
On learning through Rorschach tests (or a meditation on walking sticks and tapestries)
On writer’s block (or Course Three: a post-mortem)

MS1: Course Four

On horses and equine-assisted self exploration
On slacking (or a meditation on falling)
On grit, Netflix, and The Punisher (or a meditation on rearranged and delayed gratification)
On being a zebra, not a cheetah (or failing most of medical school)
On an abortion debate (or the benefits of controlled stress on a relationship)
On teaching a panda Kung Fu (or the dilemma of a medical education)
On being alone versus being lonely (or coming to grips with the absence of invitations)
On the rhythms of life and riding the wobble (or the end of my CrossFit Gaspar journey and the start of Jiu Jitsu)
On the last three steps (or maintaining discipline as MS1 ends)
On the transition from spring to summer (or Course Four: a post-mortem)
On quiet endings (or First Year: a post-mortem)

MS1: Summer Interlude