Death by Powerpoint

Where have I been? I have been sitting in a classroom for what is known as "Med Blocks" . Basically, we are learning a lot about diseases, and disorders, and how to diagnose and treat, or manage them. We sit in a small classroom all day in front of a projector screen and take notes from a powerpoint presentation for 8 hours a day. It is brutal. I think I am slowly going blind, I no longer respond to caffeine as I drink a pot of Joe a day, and my inner mouth is raw from chewing on sunflower seeds in order to stay awake. We, the students, commonly call our current learning environment, "Death by Powerpoint". Everyone has a different way of coping, I drink coffee and chew sunflower seeds, some drink "redline" or "monster" and most guys dip smokeless tobacco. Yes, in class. There is also a wide variety of snacks and protein-rich foods and supplements scattered about. This all makes for a very smelly learning environment to say the least. Whatever it takes to stay awake, so we can continue to learn as if we were drinking water from a firehose. Three more weeks of this and I'll move to surgery and anesthesia, clinical rotations, and then I will be freaking finito! Should be done in June. So long as I can continue to resist the slow painful death by powerpoint.