WILTIMS #27: Well, it's been a long, been a long, been a long, been a long day...

First and foremost, an election update! ...I lost. The streak continues! Well, I shall take solace in a quote from my favorite author:

“The major problem --- one of the major problems, for there are several --- one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well known fact, that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.” ~Douglas Adams, from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

Secondly, in regards to my prior and upcoming lack of posts, we have, or should I say, had very little school this week, with Labor Day on Monday, a random study day yesterday and Rosh Hashanah starting tomorrow. In fact, the only class we had was our hellish 2½ hour long histology test this morning.

The test was brutal, in part because it covered so much material. Last year, the first histo test was the day after the first anatomy test and everyone bombed it. This year, in order to “help” us, they moved back the histo test to give us more of a gap - the only problem being that we now had 20 lectures and 6 laboratory sessions of material to study. That's about the amount of material we covered in an entire 10-week course at UCSB condensed into not quite 4 weeks.

I am cautiously optimistic that I passed, but I make no other claims.

TIL: If doctors make the worst patients, soon-to-be doctors are in training to compete for that title.

The bus to Ithaca from White Plains is really not too bad and fairly convenient. As with any long haul bus, the passengers are wonderfully diverse and entertaining. I met a man named Alan who looked very good for his age (he told me so himself), listened to a woman who started smoking a cigarette to try to jinx the bus into showing up, and was late to one stop because the bus driver got lost between the freeway and the depot and had to ask directions from people on the street to figure out where he was going.