Scenes From The Fishbowl

I had the pleasure of visiting my brother and his family in Winston-Salem, NC over Easterweekend. He attends Wake Forest Medical School, and offered me to show me around the campus.

There was one small room of the school that seemed almost poetic when you explored it. This room, appropriately named "The fishbowl" due to its large windows facing the hallway, is where the over-worked students go to have an environment of total silence to study.

Each space told the story of the person that occupied it, the students are like hermit crabs in this case. My brother shared with me some very funny stories of cubicle wars which he and his friends had taken place in.

The area was full of little mnemonic devices that the student created to lighten the load on all their difficult work.

I was amazed when I found this chart that someone had drawn up over some chemical process (or processes) which occurs in the body, I bet it must have taken him or her hours!

And I superimposed the chart over one of the more organized areas I came across. These men and women are artists when it comes to learning, I believe.

And some of the spaces told a story of those students who's studies took a little more out of them than the rest.