God must be watching over me very carefully these days.
With just one week left in first semester, it’s understandable that stress levels are slowly rising at school. Several exams loom large next week, and winter has completely arrived in Boston. It could easily be seen as a scary time, but THREE separate incidents this past week have convinced me that everything is going to be FINE and that worry is overrated.
1) NEVER SAY NEVER: A couple months ago I got excited about selling books and gadgets on Amazon.com, to reduce clutter and boost the beer money fund. Very quickly, two camera cord components were purchased and the items were mailed, BUT one of the orders got mysteriously cancelled on Amazon. Meaning, no payment for me. :( Clearly annoyed, and against my better judgment, I emailed the customer and kindly asked if he wouldn’t mind sending me the cash that he was never charged.
Disclaimer: YOU SHOULD PROBABLY NEVER RESPOND WHEN SOMEONE ONLINE ASKS YOU TO MAIL HER MONEY. However, Mr. Harper was SO kind and actually mailed me a $16 money order this week (with a copy of the email I sent… weird?). THANK YOU MR. HARPER! I never thought I would get paid, but it came just in the nick of time!
2) COLLISION COURSE: Walking home on a pitch black, heavily fogged Wednesday afternoon, I was grateful not to be driving on the slick roads. As I rounded a corner onto Centre Street, just steps away from home, I suddenly became the only witness to a Dodge Minivan BLINDSIDING the driver’s side Ford Taurus with a loud CRASH and instantly spinning vehicular fallout. Eff-ing terrifying. The miracle is that not only did both drivers emerge unscratched from their cars, but they were also amazingly kind to one another and gently exchanged information without so much as a sneer of frustration. Are you kidding me?! What grace! Looking at the crumpled driver’s side of the Taurus, you would not assume that the older woman driving it had made it out okay. I think I was more shaken than either of them, and so happy that both drivers escaped physically unharmed and impressively compassionate.
3) “THE HARDEST THING TO DO AT HMS IS FAIL”: Over the past two weeks, we’ve been learning increasingly complicated cardiovascular concepts, such as EKGs, arrhythmias, and congenital defects. It’s not necessarily boring, but my studying self-discipline had run low and after scribbling through the quiz Tuesday morning I KNEW I had failed. Probably would have bet money on it. The following email excerpt speaks for itself.
“Dear Colleen, Here is your score for the Cardiovascular Quiz #2: 4 [out of 12 - OUCH!]
The Mean: 7.35 The Standard Deviation: 1.76
A passing grade is 4.”
I am one blessed medental student.
