Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Finished!

I am so proud of Justin. He works so hard to do well in school, be active with the boys, and take time for me. He is such an amazing guy. I am so lucky to have him as my husband! Well, last week at our house we had reason to celebrate! Justin is FINISHED with his second year of Med School! That's right, he is now a third year med student! He will take his Board Exams on Feb. 22nd and then he will begin his clerkships (working in the hospital with patients)! He is all done with lectures! He is very excited about this and so the other night he took all his lecture notes and stacked them on top of each other, just to see how many there were. This was the result:

(This is to give you some perspective, these were notes of dinosaur proportions!)

There were so many notes (this represents a year and a half of notes)! I was sure they were going to tip over at any moment! I don't think that in four years of college and two years of grad school I ever had that many notes! I am constantly amazed at the amount of information that they learn every day and the way that Justin is able to learn it all is really impressive to me! So Congratulations babe! No more lectures for you!!!!

Now that he's done with class, he has time to eat breakfast with Clayton before he heads off to study. I think it is so sweet how excited Clayton gets to have Justin home in the mornings!

11 comments:

. said...

CONGRATULATIONS!!! How exciting to be moving on with his education and now hopefully moving on to more fun and exciting stuff. That is a TON of notes...how much did it weigh???

Cherine said...

Oh man that scares me. How did he pull it off. Gosh props to an amazing man!!!

Ellsworth Family said...

Congrats Justin!! Ben cannot wait until he is done with lectures, he is super jealous of Justin right now!!

Kerstin said...

Congrats Justin!I bet he is so excited to be done witht this part of school. Where does he store all those notes? Yikes! Good luck on the Boards.

Anonymous said...

Congrat! That is such a sweet picture! I love Dad's and thier sons! Such a sweet relationship! I bet you are excited too... I would be stressing for him!

Jen said...

Yea for Justin! And happy days for the Smith family. Todd and I started dating at the end of his second year, so I don't know first-hand exactly how insanely busy med students can be, but I do know I see him a lot now that he's "just" doing rotations.

And wow, that was a big pile of notes. The dinosaur is a good touch.

The Jones Fam said...

Wow! That is a ton of notes, crazy! Congrats on on getting 2 years behind you!

Erica said...

What a relief to be done with lectures! I never thought it would come. Now we just have to get past the boards! It's so nice that they don't have to study for classes on top of studying for boards. I was just asking Jake when he is going to get rid of all his papers... we'll have to do the stack too, that was crazy!

DaRew said...

Sorry to be a blog interloper. I linked here from the Bybee's blog. But, could he use any books for his clinicals? I've got a ton that I've just boxed up in preparation for moving. I've thought about just chucking them, but would prefer they go to a good home. Congrats, btw. You must go to one of those med schools with 18month pre-clinical courses.

Amanda said...

WOW! Way to go Justin. What a great accomplishment!!! I can't believe how many notes he has. That's insane!!!

Katie said...

Congrats to Justin and congrats to you to getting a little more of your husband back!