Lymph Notes

Interview season has started up again at UT Southwestern. Every Friday and Saturday, I see people dressed up in black suits and high heels walking around our campus. It feels so weird to see them because it feels just like yesterday that I was in their place. 

I have to admit, Southwestern has a unique interview schedule. Interviewees start arriving Thursday night/Friday for a mixer and welcome interview dinner on Friday, and then the actual interview and tour is on Saturday. I'm pretty sure it was the only school that I interviewed at that had its interviews on the weekends. The schedule works well because everything is spaced out and organized and nothing feels too rushed. Also they feed you!! (and by you, I mean me AND the interviewees :). 

Earlier in the semester, I tried out for the acappella group on campus. I was really surprised when I got in since I didn't really have any previous acappella experience. As part of the Lymph Notes (get it?), we perform at the interview dinners pretty much every week. I finally managed to get a copy of a video of us singing today and thought I'd share it with you guys. The quality isn't the best, but the sound should be fine. We're working on a new song for next week, so stayed tuned! 

Keep Calm And Carry On

Easier said than done. Biochem exam tomorrow. Wish me luck...

Fried Mushrooms

My friend Jo's boyfriend came down from CT the other day. They were super sweet and invited a bunch of people over for a homemade lunch. We feasted on pasta and this raspberry-accented salad, but my absolute favorite dish of the day were these fried mushrooms that Jo's boyfriend whipped up. They were delicious -- not too soft, not too crunchy, and cooked to a golden perfection. On my way home that afternoon, I bought some mushrooms of my own and decided to try to make them myself. It took me an extremely long time, mostly because I forgot what the recipe was so I had to go by trial and error (and unreliable recipes from the internet). They turned out well in the end though. Here's how to make this dish in four easy steps:

Ingredients

Flour

Garlic Salt

Pepper

(any other herbs you want to mix in. ie basil)

White mushrooms (sliced)

Oil (or butter)

Step 1: Wash and slice mushrooms.

Step 2: Mix the flour, garlic salt and pepper in a bowl. Dip both sides of the mushrooms in the mixture. and make sure it's covered evenly on both sides.

Step 3: Add oil to a heated pan and carefully place mushrooms in. Flip mushroom slices occasionally to cook on both sides.

Step 4: Yum. Enjoy your masterpiece. 

Dear Blank Please Blank

My friend Brooke clued me in to a hilarious website yesterday. It's called Dear Blank Please Blank. Not exactly the best idea when you have a biochemistry exam coming up the next day, but a perfect way to procrastinate otherwise.

Some of my personal favorites:

Dear humans,

You get mad at me if I wake you, and you get mad at me if I don't!

Sincerely, confused alarm clock.

Dear self,

My wallet would appreciate you not walking into a grocery store when your hungry.

Sincerely, I swear I just bought half the store.

Dear icebergs,

Sorry to hear about the global warming. Enjoy the Karma...

Sincerely, the Titanic.

And of course:

Dear wife,

If it's a boy we're naming him Chandler. If it's a girl, then Monica.

Sincerely, an avid F.R.I.E.N.D.S fan about to have a child.

Top F.R.I.E.N.D.S. photo from Vanity Fair.

Magazine Coasters

I've always been into arts and crafts. Knitting, drawing, DIY projects --you name it -- these are all things that I wouldn't mind spending hours and hours doing. Over the summer, I happened upon a great book called Playing with Books at Anthropologie. There were some really beautiful paper projects, but sadly, most of them were beyond my level of expertise. However, I remembered this one particular project that seemed doable -- it was making coasters out of recycled sheet music. I decided to try it out and make some of my own out of magazines, glue, and bobby pins. It's fast, cheap and easy. Want to see how to do it?

Dodgeball

Dodgeball is the official sport of UTSW. Every semester, there's a tournament between the different colleges. Cary, Estabrook, Fashena, Pritchard, Seldin (the best!), and Sprague face off in an intense week of dodgeball-sanity! I was so pumped for my first game on Wednesday! Let me tell you what happened though...

Ode to the Brachial Plexus

Oh, Brachial Plexus,

You are such a menace,

With every reckless twist and turn,

You make my brain and stomach hurt. 

Who in their mind can remember your names?

Ulnar, Median, they all look the same!

One day, I will work up the nerve,

To remember the way you look and your curves.

By CeCe Cheng, MS1 trying to survive Anatomy