Yom Kip with Levine and More!

Hey blog readers! Sorry its been so long, things have been crazy. I think we are trying to really enjoy the last bits of warmth Boston has to offer. This weekend is beautiful and then I am pretty sure it won't break past the 70s for the rest of the year. Sigh.

So yesterday LEVINE CAME TO VISIT! Yayyy! I love when friends visit because thats when I get to actually explore Boston (hint hint, COME VISIT ME PEOPLE!). We walked around Fenway and Faneuil and then drove north for services and Break-the-Fast at his uncle's house! Levine's grandfather and uncle run "Larry Levine's Kosher Market," in Peabody (which is pronounced "Pea-B'dy" which I find super strange and awkward) so the food at the Break-the-Fast was AMAZING! I had so much fun mingling with the Levines and friends and ate tons and tons of delicious Jewish classics. Multiply the Levine we all know by 20 and that was what the experience was like! It was a good time, and I was so glad to be around such a sweet and welcoming family for the holiday, because I missed my family so much! They sent me home with tons of leftovers and tips on how to survive Mass in the winter!

www.levineskoshermkt.com

What else has been going on? Hmmm... They weren't kidding when they said time flies in medical school. I don't know where time has gone lately. I just study and wander around Boston with my classmates and **POOF** its October! There is always so much going on, its hard to stay inside and study all the time, so this week I kind of haven't been the best student.... BUUUTTT tomorrow is going to be my catch-up day - 12 hours of library! It is so sad because there are so so so many things I want to do and I just can't possibly fit them all into my schedule. I have also been attempting to work out 3x a week so I don't gain a bajillion pounds from all the free food and potlucks. Too much to do, not enough time...sigh. But its way better than having nothing to do, so I really shouldn't complain!

So here are some highlights from the past few weeks:

• writing a group paper on creating a coalition to prevent smoking during pregnancyfor my MPH class (my group rocked, and we had some amazing ideas)
• studying fat in Biochemistry (ugh)
• Passed both Genetics and Cell Biology (two classes down, a lot to go!)
• learning about diarrheal diseases in Molecular Biology (yuck)
• losing my ability to trust any statistic in Epidemiology (its so easy to make study results sound more significant than they really are)
• started interviewing at a hospital in my white coat (I look so official!)
• apple picking for Rosh Hashanah with TUSM Hillel and baking tons of apple pastries (pie, crisp, etc.)
• Rosh Hashanah potluck (I made my mom's Apple cake! Yum!!)
• saw Contagion (you ALL have to see it!)

So now I'm off to the Commons to enjoy the sun! Later!