I’m Steph. I’m an orthodontist and photographer living in San Francisco. Welcome to my blog!
It's 1:26pm. I'm in the kitchen making myself a sandwich for lunch because I'm too lazy to cook anything substantial.
"I want to each lunch," I hear one of the girls in my apartment say through the doors.
The next thing I know, the guy comes out of her room and begins preparing a full-out meal - ramen, fried eggs, rice, chicken wings, and beef.
I definitely need to find a guy like that.
The USC Football team held their weekly Saturday scrimmage at the Coliseum. The trainers arrived at 7:45am to begin carting equipment and gear out to the Coliseum in preparation for football practice. Being at football always means that it's going to be a long day. But getting the opportunity to step on the fields of the Coliseum and inside the football locker room is worth it.
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!
The weather in Los Angeles had been unusually cold this winter so we decided to venture as far south as we could for spring break. With the drug cartels and everything, Mexico wasn't an option for people who valued their lives. So we drove down to San Diego for the weekend and made a pit stop at La Jolla Cove.
I walked into work this morning at Heritage Hall to find the place infiltrated with yellow Peeps and glazed cinnamon rolls. As I opened the ice machine to get ice, I found the inside filled with Otter Pops. In the words of a football player, we got "punk'd". If getting "punk'd" means I'll be showered with free food, then so be it!
Today marks the end of the first week of Spring Football at USC. We were at the field since 9am setting up for practice and we just finished around 2pm. Here are some things I have learned in my first week in football:
