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Scheduled (Dis)Appointment
There’s no easy way to say this: No matter the Match outcome, a lot of people I love and care about are going to be disappointed. Chances are that if you’re reading this, you have a place in mind you’re hoping I’ll end up. Because my economic class dictates that I can only live in…
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A Match Made to Profession
You finished medical school. Time to get a job, right? Wrong! Finishing allopathic med school gets one an MD but does not allow one to actually practice medicine. For that you have to complete what is more or less a paid apprenticeship, termed a “residency” because it involves essentially living at the hospital for the…
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Beginning of the Beginning of the End
When last I wrote, I had successfully presented my PhD thesis proposal and was celebrating that the progress bar of my ridiculously ill-conceived plan for post-graduate education had reached the neighborhood of 25%. Now, a short while a long while over five years later, readers may be surprised to find out that several events have transpired in the…
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Chatter
People are talking. I see them smiling and hear the rise and fall of their laugher, their voices flowing around me as I slip soundlessly through the moving clusters. They seem so excited, but I cannot fathom what new information they have to share or plan or communicate–perhaps nothing at all. I know the exercise…
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Library of the Heart
Some hearts hold open books, hiding their secrets in the space between words. Others protect them between heavy covers, firmly closed. My heart has no book at all, because One by one, I tore out the pages, Sealed each into envelopes, scattered by the wind, Such that nobody— Could ever find— Them all.
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Why, Thank You
This morning I made a choice. I smiled to myself because I thought it was clever and in that moment it made me happy, but as the hours passed other things demanded my attention until eventually I forgot. Tonight, you noticed. You were the only one. You do that one thing, not to be noticed…
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APP Regulates Brain Lipid Homeostasis
Presentation at Neuroscience 2013; November 10, 2013. Available on Prezi or for download.
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Retro-Futurism
In ghosts of futures past we see The twilight of our memories, Now through aging scanner darkly Once bright with possibilities. In the shape of things to come, Insightful probing of primordium While Darkness’ hand reaches sinistra– Will our consciousness succumb?
Matter, Energy, and Life of Michaela A. Castello.