Drama In, Drama Out
It’s been a hectic few days of cramming and attempting to solidify all this med school theory only to regurgitate it on pieces of paper and computer screens next week.
But it’s different this time around because I just discovered the concept of emotional learning; a preference to attain knowledge by giving a certain analogy to it. Apparently this is the most effective way for me, personally, to study with others.
Since Biochemistry and Physiology would be our earliest papers, my group mates’ crib (a.k.a our study den) witnessed a whirlwind of emotions from my efforts to digest:
- the Electron Transfer Chain as an epic love story between twin brothers, the electrons (2e-) and their soulmates, the twin sisters; diatomic Oxygen (O2). This included the long journey from station to station with NAD+ as wing man plus Ubiquinone and CT as taxi drivers.
- the Carnitine shuttle as a played out scene about how fatty acids go through many mediators (their good friend coA then the front desk officer CPT 1 and head office CPT 2) to land a big project from Big Boss Carnitine’s company and after all that, goes out for celebratory coffee with coA by exiting through translocase (Carnitine’s office door).
- the Differential Membrane Permeability involved in maintaining Resting Membrane Potential as a similitude of how bouncers (Na/K electrogenic pumps) regulate the entry of girls (K+) and guys (Na+) into an elite club (the cytosol of a neuron).
And many more parts of the syllabus which I rather not write about because up to this point everything written looks like a pile of utter rubbish. Maybe it’s the lack of sleep. Maybe I’ve reached breaking point. But I guess I needed to rat this out somewhere at least.
Point is, life’s just a mashup of good and bad records; from day to day events up to the microscopic and cellular level of how our body functions: it is full of drama. No harm in that though. Our physiological dynamic equilibrium is basically similar to having balance in life. It’s a never ending effort to bring us back to a normal range of chemical states as well as state of mind. Cheers to gaining better understanding of our own self; at every level of it.
Signing off into a drowsy dream. Goodnight people of the world.
Sincerely, your future insomniac doctor.
