what's in a name?

so, when you start a blog, you have to name it... here's the story about mine.

imagine, if you will, a lecture hall with approximately 250 people in it. if you can, imagine that it's a friday morning, and everyone is waiting to get back their chest and abdomen anatomy practicals. continue with me, while the professor talks about the overall class performance on said anatomy practical. he rambles on and on. and then he mentions how... this has never happened before. someone got a 100% on this practical. you can see where this is going, can't you?

well, you guessed it. i made history that day. i got a 100% on an anatomy practical. apparently quite a feat. but the name?

well, i told my friends, but not my lab group. (you just don't go around shouting from the rooftops news such as this in medical school.) but in the very next lab, one of the profs was at our table and i asked him a question. he looks at me and smirks. and then says to me with a wink...

"i know who YOU are. you're the ACE."

so sometimes i like to call myself the ace. (please note, nobody else calls me this, really.)