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You should only write in present tense with extreme caution.

not because it's bad or anything but because if you do it even once you're going to be editing the bits where you shifted tenses out of your writing for the rest of your life

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women in STEM (shitty posture, tired all the time, eyebags, miserable)

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Regarding the post about smalltalk in nursing and the dipshit reblogging it with “hurr durr medical professionals can’t have much empathy if they need a manual on smalltalk”, I just wanted to add that smalltalk, and communication in general, in a clinical setting is so different from the kind of talking you normally do. First of all, as a medical professional you meet people at their most vulnerable. Very often you’ll know details of their medical history and previous traumatic experience that they wouldn’t share with a stranger in any other context. Very often they’ll take the fact that you’re a medical professional as permission to talk about things they haven’t shared with anyone else. Very often you’ll see them naked, scared, angry, grieving. Often you’re the one giving them bad news when they’re already scared. Quite often you walk into someone’s room knowing that they’re going through hell, that they’re not going to get better, that a good number of the standard polite phrases you use when interacting with people in public are simply inadequate to the situation. How can you wish someone a good day when they’re dying of cancer, or when they’re in constant pain? Do you really think that’s going to be a good day for them.

So communication training in medical school (and presumably nursing school) aims to increase awareness of what words and phrases you use, how body language affects your message, how the sentence that’s just a filler phrase for you can undermine a patient’s confidence in the treatment they’re getting, how easily misunderstandings can happen when you simply rely on the kind of everyday, imprecise, communication you’re used to. And it aims to give you a toolkit for acknowledging someone’s pain in a way that communicates respect and empathy, for checking for misunderstandings and clearing them up, and for making patients feel seen and heard even on the days when you’re on a tight schedule and someone’s dying in the next room.

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crying in med school is better than crying for med school so here I am

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Water droplets orbiting a charged metal sphere on the ISS.

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when the blind man shows frankenstein’s creature the pleasures of life he shows him cigarette and music. notice how he doesn’t show him linkedin and email

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Sighing and realising you will never have a family that loves you and moving on because they're broken people who refuse to change

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welcome to 10-12 hours microscope a day

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somehow I’ve managed to turn in two end stage paper drafts to my primary advisor since Thursday and I feel a bit better about everything.

the heat outside sucks tho!

there is finally a summer dip at the clinics so I’m on the peak performance in dermatopathology and not flushed away with cases…

In one month I’m going to France to sit vipassana again, actually very need to take mental distance from my crush (and I have no self control)

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finding out there's a frankenstein ballet and that it was in october of last year…DEVASTATING

look at this. look at these. im foaming at the mouth

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Wait, you were actually born in the 1900's? Thats so cool

i am going to eat my own entire skin

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did this last night