Step One: Cut a Hole in the Box

In less than six months, I take what is probably the biggest and most important exam in my life, the USMLE Step 1 Exam. It's there, in my near future, looming like a guillotine over a French Revolutionary's neck. As if every medical student from the day of acceptance did not know that this day that could decide the rest of our medical future is awaiting, our professors have taken to reminding us approximately every 15 minutes.

From all this, you'd think my life was devoted to reviewing, re-learning, or in some cases learning for the first time, every ounce of information that has been alluded to in the last 18 months of medical school. But, instead, my First Aid Step Review book, and about twelve other review books provided by my sister, are all still sitting peacefully on my bookshelf, with no more than a crease in their fresh paperback spines. I guess it's about time to stop worrying, and start opening books.