I'm sick :-(

Well, it has been a little while since the last post so I thought I would throw out an update. I have a cold I am trying to beat off with a full arsenal Cold-Eeze, humidifier, menthol vapors...etc. I looked up the research on Cold-Eeze by the way, and it appears it actually does shorten the length of a cold. Most over the counter meds like that are pretty b.s. so I was surprised.

Next week is finals week here. I got a couple easy ones on Monday and a physio final on Wednesday and a psych final on Thursday. Not that bad. So I am going snowboarding tomorow up at Okemo as long as the high winds don't shut down the lifts. Woohoo!

As always, I will leave with a picture I took recently. This one is from the other day when it was really foggy here around campus. Enjoy!
Don't mind the lame "Jakub Photography" across the middle. I put that in there so that people can't rip off my wonderful photos as their own and sell them for millions, lol.

Boo UMDNJ

Well, after a decent Thanksgiving, I had a true Black Friday. My top 2 choices for medical school are UConn and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Osteopathic Medicine(UMDNJSOM) <----really really long name. I doubt I'll get much love from UConn, so my hope was riding on UMDNJ. Well today I got a wonderful letter saying I was deemed an "acceptable" applicant but not quite good enough for an acceptance right now. Time to take a seat on the Alternate List. My reaction : AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!. Damn you, UMDNJ, for not recognizing such a stellar future doctor. Looks more and more like I will be attending the Nova Southeastern med school in Ft. Lauderdale. I realy, really liked it there, but it will be bit more expensive than the other 2 schools would be. Oh well. It may be a better fit for me anyway. On the bright side, I bought myself a brand new pair of snowboard boots - woohoo! Im really excited to hit the slopes soon. I'll leave this post with one of latest photographic endeavors - the panoramic shot.
By the way - who noticed that I mispelled the URL to this blog!

The Beginning

Well, I decided to start my first blog. I have absolutely no blogging experience, nor do I think that I am a particularly good writer. I just want a place where I could post some pictures, talk about the medical school process, and maybe comment on other interesting issues. At the very least, this will be another tool added to my procrastination arsenal.

For starters, a little about myself. I am a Polish immigrant and a senior Molecular and Cell Biology major at the University of Connecticut. My brother, Filip, and girlfriend, Jacki, also attend UConn. I have recently begun the medical school application process. I applied to mostly osteopathic(DO) medical schools, and only a handful of allopathic(MD) medical schools. That will be something that I will dwell into deeper in a later post since the medical school process will be the central theme of this blog.

Another theme will be photography. I recently invested in a digital SLR(Canon EOS 350d) and a couple of lenses, so I should be taking a lot of pictures in the near future. I am an absolute beginner, so don't expect anything amazing for quite a while. For now, I will leave this initial post with one of my first photoshoped images of my beloved dog Ikar.