Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Dating II

Now that fall has firmly established itself and the temperatures are consistently low, my classmates are quickly pairing up like tubulin subunits. (Wow. Did I just write that? Well, can't stop now.) I think that classmates are looking for that special someone to snuggle up with during these cold fall and winter nights. You can see these alpha-beta dimers all lined up in a row in the center of the lecture hall -- a microtubule of sorts, lectures and whispers being passed from one end of the row to the other.

It seems these intra-class daters have formed their own little club, some of them even vacationing together this upcoming holiday weekend. They are having fun together, and I wish I could join in the fun.

Dating within the class is working for a healthy number of classmates. The more I think about it, the more sense it seems to make: (1) you have the same examination schedule, (2) you understand the pressures, stresses, etc., (3) you can spend a lot of time together, even if it's spent in class and/or studying.

But what if things go wrong? That question always comes up, right?

Well, I don't know. However, class attendance has dropped precipitously, with attendance being high only for Dr. A-type professors. Therefore, if things don't work out for our intra-class daters, chances are they'll only see each other on exam days and maybe the occasional lecture. Furthermore, now that one of our exams each unit is a customized NBME exam, you really can teach yourself by reading Robbins, studying board review books, and doing practice questions through prep sites such as USMLE World.

I want to be paired up too, but I think there's a mutation at one of my dimer binding sites.

4 comments:

Christopher Bayne said...

If you tell your female classmates their smile makes you autophosphorylate on Try AND Ser/Thr residues, that you don't mind using a GEF to translocate inside the nuclear envelope, and you don't mind enacting a little p53 activity to slow down uncontrolled proliferation, I'd say your chances of dimerization are higher!

DC Med Student said...

Chris,

Ya nasty! But, that was good.

dak/james said...

hahaha... nerd talks... LOL. but i like your blog... very medical, i am also a medical student but iont talk in my blog like this. hahaha... kudos!

DC Med Student said...

Thank you, dack.