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A funny story (in hind sight at least 
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So today was our community wide research day and like any good (?, nuts?)3rd year medical student going into path, I prepared an oral presentation on some of the research that I've been working on... little did I know...
1. On the way to the auditorium, I got the funny feeling that the SUV behind me was following me and after I pulled into the parking lot, the guy pulled right in front of my car and got out. I must have looked even paler than normal as he then just waved and pointed to my rear tire- I guess one of the lugnuts was sticking out a bit- (HR=200, BP 180/100)
2. At about 50 yards from the door, all of the sudden it started downpouring with thunder and lightning. Wow, a free shower- how exciting!
3. I even went last night to set up and run through the presentation and everything worked (ah, note the past tense) great. I was the first presentation of the day and at about the 3rd slide, I noticed confused looks on peoples' faces. Looking back at the screen, the slides were advancing on the computer, but not on the monitor. After 10 minutes with IT in the room, they finally got it working so that the screen was showing the slides, but not the computer monitor (HR 250, BP 200/110- ready to explode). Doh... that'll put a crimp in the presentation.
4. Halfway through my presentation about 20 people decided to enter from the front of the room, walk in front of me, and find seats in the audience while crinkling their plastic drug rep goody bags (Forget the vitals, now I'm just angry).
At that point I considered jumping out the window, but to my luck, there weren't any in the room Please tell me that these things get better- please! I just don't think that my cardiovascular system can take much more of this
)So today was our community wide research day and like any good (?, nuts?)3rd year medical student going into path, I prepared an oral presentation on some of the research that I've been working on... little did I know...
1. On the way to the auditorium, I got the funny feeling that the SUV behind me was following me and after I pulled into the parking lot, the guy pulled right in front of my car and got out. I must have looked even paler than normal as he then just waved and pointed to my rear tire- I guess one of the lugnuts was sticking out a bit- (HR=200, BP 180/100)
2. At about 50 yards from the door, all of the sudden it started downpouring with thunder and lightning. Wow, a free shower- how exciting!
3. I even went last night to set up and run through the presentation and everything worked (ah, note the past tense) great. I was the first presentation of the day and at about the 3rd slide, I noticed confused looks on peoples' faces. Looking back at the screen, the slides were advancing on the computer, but not on the monitor. After 10 minutes with IT in the room, they finally got it working so that the screen was showing the slides, but not the computer monitor (HR 250, BP 200/110- ready to explode). Doh... that'll put a crimp in the presentation.
4. Halfway through my presentation about 20 people decided to enter from the front of the room, walk in front of me, and find seats in the audience while crinkling their plastic drug rep goody bags (Forget the vitals, now I'm just angry).
At that point I considered jumping out the window, but to my luck, there weren't any in the room
Please tell me that these things get better- please! I just don't think that my cardiovascular system can take much more of this 
