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write ‘nothing is set in stone’ on my grave as both a witty joke and a subtle warning that i will be back

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A Few Helpful Videos

Step 1 and Done.

I don’t understand how some people can straight read First Aid and retain. Here are a few videos I found to be very helpful for understanding and memorizing concepts. With the plethora of YouTube videos out there, I feel like there should be a database of worthwhile ones somewhere (please tell me if there is already). Feel free to add any you’ve found particularly helpful. 

Anatomy

Brachial Plexus Speed Drawing

Brachial Plexus Explained

General Anatomy Overview Channel

Anatomy Figure Drawings - Helps visualize muscle actions

Biostats

Watch these a couple of days before your exam for a refresher. Many of his review questions are based directly off of UWorld questions.

Practice Questions

Cardio

General Cardio Overview  

JVP explained with relevant path correlations 

S3/S4 - the simplest of explanations (the accent does’t hurt) 

Antiarrhythmics - follow up with SketchyPharm 

Antiarrhythmics - Refractory Period Explained 

Embryology

This cardio video is amazing. He explains the cardio congenital defects in context of what causes each defect during development. This makes recall much easier as you’re learning the process and can work out each one even if you forget the small details. (make sure to watch both parts)

Heart Embryo Derivatives - mnemonic 

Intestine Development - Overview

GI Development - Foregut, Midgut, Hindgut Orientation

Embryonic Folding 

Pharyngeal Arch Mnemonic (die)  

Microbiology 

Algorithm/mnemonic for viruses. Pure gold.

YouTube Channels of Interest

Armando Hasudungan 

Anatomy Zone

Dr. Najeeb (my hero)

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Story Time

I was six the first time I went to disney world. It was also the first time I met my step family in florida. See, my grandfather had three wives in his lifetime, and the third wife was the only one I ever met. She had five kids when they married, and moved to Hawaii from the Phillipines. Now jump forward, my dad’s step siblings have families of their own, including my uncle Jett, who married a native hawaiian woman, and had two beautiful daughters.

Back to that first trip to disney. I was six, my sister was ten, and our smack in the middle of that age difference was my cousin Malia at age eight. She, and her younger sister Bella, both took hula classes, because their mother wanted them to stay close to their roots, despite the distance of having moved to florida. We were all pretty young, but we knew enough that the princesses at disney world were actresses in costume.

“How cool would it be to play a princess at one of these parks?” I had said after a long day in the magic kingdom. “I wanna do that one day.”

“Who would you play?” Bella had asked. 

“I don’t know. Belle maybe. She’s the only one with brown hair other than snow white, and mulan, and I could never play either of them.”

“Yeah, but you don’t really look like Belle either. Your noses are to different.” Malia had cut in, and I shrugged it off, knowing It’d never happen anyway.

“What about you guys? Who would you play?” I asked them, unaware that there was no answer to that.

“We don’t look like any of them either. There are no princesses from where we’re from.” So we all settled on the sad belief that none of us would ever get to be disney princesses.

Years pass, and I decide that one day I would help write a movie for a princess from either the phillipines, or the polynesian islands, so my cousins could become princesses. Because they held on to that dream. It might have been harder for them to let go of it, because they lived so close to disney.

Now it’s 2014, and Malia has just been hired as a dancer, at the polynesian resort at disney. She started as a swing, and in two years worked her way up to a featured dancer. It helped that she was of polynesian decent. 

About a year ago it was announced that disney would be releasing a movie featuring their first polynesian princess, and my cousins & I were all excited, but none of us had high hopes. We all figured they’d make her look more like Rapunzel, the way Anna and Elsa had. 

Fast forward a few months. They have just released the first look at moana.

I text my cousin as soon as I see it.

“Did you see Moana?”

“No, why?” I send her the picture above, and a minute later I get a call. “SHE LOOKS LIKE ME! I LOOK LIKE HER!” Malia is screaming into the phone with unabashed enthusiasm. She couldn’t believe that a disney princess bore such a resemblance to her.

Yesterday, 11/16/16, my cousin began her new job at disney world, and I couldn’t be happier that her dream of ten years had been realized.

This is why representation matters. This is one of many reasons why Moana is so important. 

Congratulations Malia. I can’t wait to come down and say Mahalo

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Ladies, WITHOUT prompting, ask your husband/boyfriend these questions and write EXACTLY what he says. •What is something I always say? Get wrecked •What makes me happy? Hmmmm the most happy? Not being at work, back scratches, puppy cuddles •What makes me sad? Work •How tall am I? 5'4... well 5'3 and a half so you get to round up •What's my favorite thing to do? Read •What do I do when you're not home? I dunno, I'm not home •If I become famous, what will it be for? Being Indiana Jones •What makes you proud of me? You're smart •What is my favorite food? Kimchi? •What is my favorite restaurant? Somewhere in DC •Where is my favorite place to visit? Germany •How do I annoy you? You don't..? •What is my favorite movie? Snatch •Who is my celebrity crush? Morgan (Criminal Minds) •You get a phone call that I am in trouble, who am I with? You don't really get in trouble with Malisa or Nicole... well maybe. And maybe Kayla

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Hello.

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beauty guru: *explains in extreme detail what she’s doing*

me: what is she doing

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video game skies ♡

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ok universe, i’m ready to feel good things. make me feel good things.

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executive dysfunction: you need to do this thing

me: how?

executive dysfunction: idk have you tried sitting and feeling guilty about it?

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And yet, you kept going.

-a reminder; e.d.  (via thatkindofwoman)

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when you start to get a crush on someone