"Just show your passions on your residency applications and everything else will work out," my mentor said.

There are a lot of reasons why having a child in graduate school is difficult, but on the other hand, it can also be very rewarding. Below is my Top 10 list for why having a kid in grad school at UCSF is awesome:

Good surgery has a certain flow to it. The setup of the room has its feng shui. All the necessary materials are already prepared. The anesthesia team has a smooth intubation.

During my first year in graduate school, I quickly learned that I needed some sort of outside-of-lab activity, or else I would go crazy.

Clinicians in training are told that their assessment of a patient should begin the moment they enter a room.

The time has come for society to start regulating sugar. Ask any professor in any health field if there are negative effects from excess sugar consumption, and the answer will be a universal and resounding, “Of course!”

As UCSF students, staff and faculty make the final push toward winter vacations, many of us will be going to bed with gluttonous dreams of baked ham and Linzer cookies.

Eating used to be simple. I think that past tense is something most people could agree with.