I just finished M1 year, and I’m realizing things aren’t exactly as I had pictured in my head. Even though they tell you that med school is tough, never did I dream that I would study as much as I have. At UCI, I learned that powerpoints are your friend while textbooks are not, but review books are most definitely awesome too. Of course, nothing is ever exactly as you imagine, but I think it can be helpful to hear from other people’s experiences. I do hope this becomes a productive creative venture that I can look back on with fondness. I’m really excited about this summer as I have some really interesting research planned... 

It’s been an exciting Spring 2008 as Zotters.org merged with AnteaterForum.com into a slick new website with many combined features. As we researched various additions to the site, we decided to design a community blog into the heart of the new system to which we hope many new bloggers will decide to contribute. Welcome to College 2.0. In the face of m*ss-education and catering to the systematic demands of the Man, it is time to bring the university experience to a new level of information exchange. Back in the day, universities were founded on the purpose of being an intellectual “marketplace of ideas.” Fast forward to 2008,... 

“Correctness and incorrectness of ideological and political line decides everything. If the line is correct, everything will come in its way; if it is wrong, everything will be lost which one had before.” - Chairman Mao, Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) website Fragile Peace Process: The Importance of Nepal as a Case-Study in Ethnic Conflict After a decade of violent clashes between various citizen rebel groups and government forces in Nepal, the warring factions have recently laid down their arms and began a peace process. Under the watchful eye of United Nations monitors that were invited in the summer of 2006 to supervise the process,...