Quarter Past Med School

YESSS!! Just finished first year of medical school! We took our last exam this morning and then just wandered around campus doing random things. It's so odd to have that feeling of impending studying doom lifted from your chest. The rest of the day, I found myself returning to the library without even realizing it. Over the year, the Health Sciences Library had become my home base - studying consumed my life. And although it was difficult at first to be in a constant state of continuous studying, it became second nature very easily. Now, as much as studying had become a chore, I almost miss it. A few hours out - and it feels so strange to have no deadlines, no lectures to capture, no highlighting to do, no more structure, just freedom. I don't know how everyone else feels, but I'm totally loopy right now - I got 2 hours of sleep last night and I am off the charts excited to be done with this year. Did we learn a lot? Yes. Did I study my brains out? Definitely. Will I need to do a heavy duty review in the near future to solidify everything we learned this year? You bet. Is this going to be a fun summer? YES IT WILL. Have I asked enough rhetorical questions? Maybe. Am I on a post-exam-end-of-year high? There's no better way to describe it.