Finally made up for my sleep deficit accumulated over the past month. I've slept at least 24 hours this weekend so I've spent more time sleeping than awaking. Yesterday, during my awake hours, I got some nice quality step 2 studying done at the Manhattan public library on 42nd Street. I finished 100 questions (30 on the subway ride alone) including reading all the answers one by one. But I still have to build up my stamina for the real deal in 2 weeks, 400 questions, with only a 1 hour break over 9 hours. I did it before, so I figure I can do it again, but I spent a lot more time preparing for Step 1. Anyway, I'm sure I'll pass, I just hope my score doesn't drop too much from my Step 1 score. Tomorrow we start a silly lecture series called Emerging Concepts in Medicine which consists of morning lectures on all the things the old fogey faculty at my school think are at the cutting edge of medicine, gene therapy and whatnot, basically any talk with the words genetic or molecular in the title will do. Not that I'm not looking forward to some of the lectures, some do sound interesting, but the context within which they are presented, as some sort of farewell kick in the ass as we head out into the great beyond of molecular medicine, just annoys me. Why don't you let me decide what I need to know? The lectures are so haphazardly organized it makes me wonder how or what we are supposed to be gleaning from these semi-illustrious visiting lecturers. I just hope the visiting lecturers are prepared for a lot of dozing, doodling and dangling legs over arm bars.