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      Today was, overall, a good day for being a doctor-in-training.       This morning I volunteered at a medical mission at the Pasig City jail. The event was organized by alumni from the Ateneo Graduate School of Business (AGSB), and there were only 6 of us from ASMPH. One freshman, one sophomore (me), three juniors, and an Ophthalmology resident.        Weirdly enough, it was my first medical mission as a med student (ASMPH is not fond of medical missions). Few things I was expecting: One, that my sole contribution would be to take vital signs (blood pressure, temperature... all the basic stuff that can be learned in college). And two, that my patients would be scary, snarling inmates with tattoos on the inside of their eyelids. It is worth noting that neither of these things happened.        We got to the jail at around 9 AM because the traffic was bad and we got pretty lost along the way. When we got inside, we were asked to leave our cellphones with the guards, and they s

      I feel like I'm a little too old to be writing essays on "How I Spent My Christmas Vacation," but what the heck. This is 2016. Adult coloring books and hoverboards are real things grownups can own.      Anyway. What I've been up to for the past couple of weeks, aside from mindlessly scrolling through Facebook: Tried my hand at programming a choose-your-own story game using the Episode app. I found it to be really user-friendly! You can easily program your characters' behaviors, dialogue, and appearance. For my program, I chose to do an updated version of Splanchnic (too lazy to think up a brand-new story). Got too lazy to program the second episode though, so for now the game is stuck at the point before Elmer gets to the Spleen Department.  Filling in the Secret Garden coloring book that Mai-mai got me for Christmas. At first it's pretty therapeutic, since all you really have to do is just scratch a colored pen in between some lines on pape