Holy mackerel, I haven't been on this site in a while!  I've kind of been a bit swamped with school, for starters, but many interesting things have been happening lately.  I figured I'd share some of my latest experiences with all of you, since a number of them have to do with my MD.

I took a rather risky leap of faith in my writing class, specifically regarding the topic I chose for our first paper.  Our professor started us off with a simple assignment: we had to write one…