頭にくる 5 – Health Insurance and Gender Bias

I know, I know, I should be studying…but lecture ended early so I took a trip to nytimes online and read this appalling article:
Women Buying Health Policies Pay a Penalty
It made me furious that insurance companies’ defense for this blatantly biased practice is basically shrugging and saying, ‘Well, women have babies, and that’s expensive.’ They [...]

Nasty, Brutish and Short

Although we occasionally do fun things like draw livers on each other during lab, second semester isn’t exactly full of fun. We are now hurtling toward the shelf exams through 7 more weeks of long days (8:00 – 5:00) filled with lectures. The fall semester seems really short – just under four months long – [...]

Gamechangers

Confession: Sometimes, I’m not overly fond of the first semester students.
On an individual basis, they seem to be nice enough but what gets my goat is the fact that they love to congregate in Classroom 5, the designated Second Semester domain (all of our classes are scheduled in Classroom 5). When I was a first [...]

Flocculonodular Lobe

Usually, I’m not very good at gauging the outcome of exams. Sometimes, following a test, I feel as if I’ve been eviscerated. Sometimes, I feel like a wounded soldier, staggering home with the last of my strength. Sometimes, I feel a heavy sense of doom. And sometimes, like on Monday after Mini I, I feel [...]