We Are All Doomed

"There is no escape: It seems that everything one does to earn a livelihood, to subsist, or to enjoy life turns out to be illegal, immoral, or fattening, or - most disturbing - possibly oncogenic."

- from page 183 of Robbins Basic Pathology, my textbook of choice for the last 10 weeks

To be Validated by a Harvard Med School Professor

is just so gratifying. Yesterday, during an "Introduction to Neoplasia" lecture, a professor likened normal cell growth to the general outlay of Manhattan and malignant cell growth to the outlay of Boston. Finally, after 4 long years in this city, I've been able to find someone who expressed my last 4 years of angst in one slide.