I’m Steph. I’m an orthodontist and photographer living in San Francisco. Welcome to my blog!
All in Pre-Dental
I've never met a species of people who are able to match my attention to detail and general level of OCD-ness. That is, until I started working at the dental school library. It takes a special type of person to be a librarian:
I'm finally done with finals for Junior Year.
Don't ask me how finals went. They were terrible.
What if I can't get into dental school because of my junior year GPA? What am I supposed to do?
Can you believe that it rained in Los Angeles last night? But after the rain, the smog in the sky clears up temporarily. It smells slightly damp outside but fresh. Like spring.
Three down, one to go. I can feel the pull of summer break on the tips of my finger.
I was sifting through "My Pictures" file when I stumbled onto this photo, circa Spring 1995. Fast forward 16 years and times are so different now.
There's a reason I stopped posting on my old Tumblr blogs that all of my close friends had access to. I hated constantly having to censor what I said through words for fear that I would be judged. I hated having to come across in my posts as a strong, unshakable pre-dental student who sees life through rose-tinted glasses.
There are so many ways to mark the passage of time; the semester slips by in a cycle of ups and downs. The end of spring semester draws near with the onset of finals and the beginning of wondrous sunny weather.
The end of spring semester is also marked by the annual spring football game, pitting the USC offense against the USC defense.
One of our labs for physiology is a kidney dissection. The dissection part is actually really easy - you just slice the kidney in half and voila! The part that is hard to digest is the sheer size of the kidney itself.
After weeks of working 10 - 15 hour weeks, working 5:45am shifts, tending to football players, and observing the athletic medicine staff in action, I have been officially offered a position in the student athletic medicine program!
