Its been a long time since I've written anything.

I flew back home, having grown tired at the lack of good progress I had expected from living at my own place in Florida. I settled into a study schedule. Started taking some exercise classes at night. Started working with more practice  questions (which I still despise doing).

And finally, I took the comp. I felt pretty good going in, despite not being altogether confident in a few of the low yield subjects. And I walked out feeling like a squadron of pigeons had just completed the death star trench run and released a poop missile straight into my forehead.

Its odd. Uworld supposedly has questions very similar to the Step 1, and the NBME is supposedly very predictive of overall step 1 performance. Yet, with the exception of two questions, I felt that the comp questions were unlike most that I have been practicing over the last few months.

Similarly, I felt that this newest comp was more difficult than the last. Or maybe I just had a better idea of what answers I knew, and what answers I knew I didn't know. There were definitely oddities, like the lack of any questions on diseases typically covered in biochemistry (ie Pompeii's, Galactose metabolism, lysosomal storage diseases, etc), instead opting for somewhat more bizarre topics.

I haven't received the results of the test yet, but I know they are arriving any day now. In the meantime, just focus.

Focus.

Focus.

and breath.