my life, my pace

Gaaaaaaaaaaah!!! I hate my website hosting place! My site keeps going down at the most inopportune times, like right when I’m pressing the “publish” button on my inspirational music post last night!!! And it stayed down, so my apologies for not having a post yesterday. Here it is now.

It’s time for another edition of inspirational music for the med student. My song of choice for today is: All American Rejects – Dirty Little Secret. Why you ask? Because we all have dirty little secrets that we hide from each other, patients, professors, and admissions committees! These secrets can be as harmless as the fact that we’re obsessed with Pokemon, as annoying as the fact that we’re closet gunners, or they can be downright ethically wrong such as cheating on exams (sorry, I know we all want to think that doctors are morally superior people, but the reality is that not all of them are). So here’s to dirty little secrets and the med students who have them!

By the way, the album that this song comes from is quite awesome too, much better than their previous album.

As always, feel free to submit song suggestions through the contact form.

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