Metaphors We Think By

Author:  Aldis H. Petriceks, MD candidate (1)

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Anxiety seemed like something that happened to other people—something I didn’t have to think about—until I found myself in cellular biology class in the first weeks of medical school, unable to think. I hadn’t been myself since the early summer, brooding about issues in my personal life, how they would change when I moved across the country. Yet by the time I arrived for school in Boston, I had pored over every relevant thought and circumstance, resolved upon concrete actions, still to no avail. I was stuck in a state of increasing entropy, an unfolding of the mind.

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Affiliation:

1. Harvard Medical School