A Much Needed Rest

I'm going to keep this brief (for real this time).

I just got home from my second exam in CSF, the completion of which marks the beginning of my two week winter vacation!!!! Now, I've obviously had breaks like this before; I've been through demanding courses, taken big exams. I've even had whole weeks of tests for undergraduate finals. Yet I can honestly say that I have NEVER felt this excited, grateful, and utterly RELIEVED to go on break before today. Like the almighty Atlas on the day the Earth comes to an end, I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. These last few weeks in CSF have been long and exhausting. We started in on biochemistry during the latter portion of this block; while it was definitely nice to get back into familiar territory (this was the first time since the start of med. school that we have studied something that I have learned previously), the sheer extent of information was vastly overwhelming.  The material that we covered during the first two days of the biochemistry section--that's a total of just eight hours of lecture--was literally equivalent to what I learned in an entire 10-week term during undergrad. And that was just two days. We had another week of biochemistry to follow, not to mention the week and a half of histology that we had already suffered through. My head has never felt so jam-packed with cell types, tissue features, enzyme reactions, etc.

...But it was fun. And I'm super excited to be studying biochemistry (which we will cover exclusively in this class from here on out). And so far, I've been impressed with how much I have forgotten, but ASTONISHED with how fast it has come back. Next block is going to be another intense one, but I'm looking forward to it. But for now, all I'm looking forward to is a wonderfully relaxing two weeks of relaxing, reading, snowboarding, eating, video games and family time. Speaking of family, I'm just about to kick it all off by heading over to Mom/Dad's for what will surely be an incredible movie night. Could this get any better? ...Wait, what? IT'S ALMOST CHRISTMAS?! Why, that's my favorite holiday! And you brought me eggnog? You shouldn't have! And, are those cookies I smell my roommate baking this very moment? They most certainly are! Man... Life. Is. Goooood.