Pictures from the Museum of Modern Art

My roommate and I had President's Day off so we went to MoMA for the day. Some of the exhibits there were way too modern for me and I wouldn't necessarily consider them art but there were a lot of great exhibits there that I did enjoy. I got to see Van Gogh's Starry Night, some Monet paintings, some Picasso, and some Diego Rivera stuff that I really enjoyed. Enjoy the pictures below!!

Starry Night


Starry Night from a better angle


A GIANT Monet...so beautiful


Another Monet


And a third Monet

American Museum of Natural History and Rotation Update

So, I'm now in my third week of my family medicine rotation and I am enjoying it so far. Definitely not a field I want to go into but at least I am getting to see patients and learn and do hands on things. Right now I am working at outpatient clinics. Everyday I go in, see a patient by myself or with a partner, present to the resident and then go see the patient again with the resident. We discuss the case and treatments, follow-ups, etc, then the resident presents to the attending who is there to make sure the residents are staying on tract and are treating for the correct things. It is nice getting to see the patient first without a resident as it allows us to figure out how to interact with the patients and figure out what questions we need to ask and what exams we need to do on them before talking it over with the resident.

This past weekend, my roommate and I went to the American Museum of Natural History-the one from the movie Night at the Museum. They had all sorts of neat exhibits and then we also ended up getting tickets to a special exhibition about space exploration starting with Sputnik and the first people in space to what the future may hold with space travel and occupying other planets. After the museum, we went down to Herald Square and walked around a bit...saw the Empire State Building lit up and then it started snowing a little...it was a perfect winter evening in NYC!! Enjoy the pictures below of the museum and wandering around afterwards...

Replica of a giant clam


Mollusks


Tiger...part of a display of endangered and near endangered animals


Giant whale in the middle of the underseas exhibit


Poor Pluto :(


Knowles Meteorite...see next picture for description


Description of Knowles Meteorite


DUMB-DUMB!!! From Night at the Museum


View from the museum overlooking Central Park


View from the museum with me in front of it


Close up of Empire State Building


Shot of Empire State Building from further away


Empire State Building and ME :)


Hope you enjoyed!! Love you all!

Fun weekend and start of rotations!

This past Friday, my roommate and I went out to this restaurant in Williamsburg for dinner. It was an oyster bar and was very old fashioned and very quaint. The drinks were very interesting and the oyster list was very long (see below)...lots of options. I got a champagne julep (see pictures) and my roommate had a beer that was served in a mason jar. We ended up getting a few oysters which were very good-a lot saltier than the Gulf oysters-and then I got Jonah crab and my roommate got Black Bass ceviche. The meal was really good, somewhere I'd definitely go back to and would love to bring any of you if you are interested!!





On Saturday I spent the day out in Manhattan. Sadly, my roommate was sick and couldn't join me but I decided to still venture on my own. I started by heading up to Central Park and walked around there for a while. It was a pretty nice day out so there were lots of people out exercising, walking around, and walking their pets. I walked over to an obelisk there that was called Cleopatra's Needle and was built in Egypt than brought over sometime much later. There was a plaque that described its history but the picture of it didn't turn out very well. Next, I took a train down to Times Square and walked to Amy's Bread where I had a delicious vanilla cupcake with pink buttercream frosting...it had the perfect ratio of frosting to icing and was very moist!!









Lastly, I went down to Little Italy and Chinatown. I ended up getting two pashmina's for myself in Chinatown and a scarf for my mom. I was going to do some more shooping/peeking around in stores in Chinatown but it was really busy down there as they were having a parade to celebrate Chinese New Year.

Today I started my family medicine rotation which is 6 weeks long. Today was just orientation stuff and I begin the actual rotation tomorrow. The hours are pretty light. For the first 4 weeks I am doing outpatient work and am only working short shifts. This week I work from 1PM-5PM, next week I work 5PM-9PM, the following week I work 1PM-6PM, and the fourth week I work 8AM-1PM. The final two weeks I am working on inpatient services and will be working 7AM-5PM as well as one day on the weekend. Every Wednesday is lecture day and we have two separate lectures...one at 9AM and another in the afternoon from 2-5. Hopefully this will be a good rotation and I will be able to learn some interesting things and learn how to do some simple procedures.

Thats all for now...will keep you updated about my rotation!!

Snow!!

Not much new here...still haven't started rotations yet so I'm still just hanging around exploring my neighborhood. Last night and today it finally snowed here!! We got maybe 2 inches or so with a layer of sleet on top. Enjoy these pictures...the first couple are from at the apartment and the last few were taken at Prospect Park-a large park about 5 blocks east of the apartment.

Apartment Pictures!!

So today, my roommate and I went to Target and Ikea to get some organizational and decorating stuff for our apartment. I put together the furniture I got today and was finally able to completely unpack and organize my room. Below are pictures of my apartment...please excuse the mess in the living area...we still haven't gotten everything situated for that area so things are kind of everywhere!!

This is a picture from the living room looking into my bedroom


This is a picture of my dresser which is to the right after walking in my bedroom door


This is my closet...decent size...fits everything I need in it


This is on the left side of my room...got the cube thing at Target and put the bins in it to but all my random stuff in


This is my bedside tower thing...on it is my new lamp from Ikea and my iPod docking station I got from my brother for Christmas, among other random things


This is a close up of the cube thing from Target


This is our entry area...pardon the boxes, waiting for garbage day to take them out


View from the entry area


Kitchen


Kitchen again


Living room


Bathroom...it's kind of small but there is a lot of storage over the toilet and behind the mirror over the sink which helps make up for the size



Also, if anyone wants my mailing address for any reason either ask my mom or email me and I will send it to you...I feel its probably not the best idea to post that info on the internet for all to see!!
Love you all!!

Update!

So, I've been in NYC for a few days now and am absolutely loving it!! Since I don't start my rotations until the end of the month, I have plenty of time on my hands to do whatever I please. Today, I wandered around the neighborhood a little and went to a cupcake shop nearby. I got a vanilla cake cupcake with chocolate salted caramel frosting. Overall, the cupcake was pretty good though the cake part was a little dry. The icing was delicious though, so that made up for it a little. I took a few pictures, one of the cupcake and one of their sign...



My room is still a mess but hopefully I will get the rest of it organized soon at least getting it to a state where I can take pictures and post them here along with pictures of the rest of my apartment so you can all see what my apartment looks like.

Next step

So, as you can all see, I have not updated this blog since I got to Miami and I am sorry about that but I am going to try and do better now that I am starting rotations. Since my last post, I have done a semester in Miami and have studied for, taken, and passed Step 1 which is the first part of my medical licensing board exams. Now I am getting ready to head to NYC to do rotations at various hospitals in the Brooklyn area. The rotations I am scheduled for so far are Family Medicine, Ob/Gyn, Internal Medicine, and Psychiatry. I should be getting scheduled for more rotations in a few months. I have gotten myself a really nice apartment in Brooklyn with a friend of mine from the island and am really excited about the neighborhood and looking forward to exploring the area. I am going to try to update this blog more often for those of you who still read it but for the next week or two I am going to enjoy the holidays and the time I have left at home before heading up to NYC on January 5th. I'll post pictures of my apartment and neighborhood once I get back up there and get settled!