My last day in CO.

 Goodbye Rockies.  I will miss Matt and Branden a lot.  After 820 more slides, my class ended with a practice gross path boards test.  Now I know why they say that they don't have to make the tests tricky for you to fail.  You get 1.25 min per question to look at a slide, write a morphologic dx, the causative organism,  and sometimes the pathogenesis.  I know that I will be able pass that test eventually but I have a lot of studying to do.  The amount of information that the 3rd year residents have put in their brains is amazing.  

 Got to go to see my family on the way to Michigan.  

This is my first photo from MI.  There may not be mountains here but people are super friendly here.  I'm sitting in  a student lounge on campus and the girl sitting next to me is talking in French or something.  Another girl walked up to me earlier and asked if I wanted free ice cream.  And tons of people say hi when they walk by you in the hall even though they've never seen you before in their life.  

My externship has started off well with an alpaca necropsy.  It was a suri, a valuable type that has hair as fine  as mine.  I try really hard to ignore how cute some of the animals that end up on the necropsy floor are.  I'm going to be writing more reports here than at CSU and will have the same great mix of gross pathology and histopath.