When reading a book or writing a paper it is always done in Risley

I'm writing this blog in between writing an essay for my Mind, Body and Health course. For our first writing assignment we have to write and analysis a first hand medical experience. I chose to write about the time in middle school when I tore my ligament in my right knee. I'm analysing the effected it had on my life. I'm also analysing the relationship I had with the orthopedic physician and his technique of practicing biomedical model of medicine. When practicing the biomedical model of medicine, the physician is only treating the disease through medical process. The doctor is not treating the mind to see how this experience is effecting the patient as a person in their everyday life. By not treating the mind and body, the patient, ( in this case myself) is not becoming completely cured or healed. In my case, the specialist believed I should receive surgery as soon as possibly, not really putting into perspective how it would effect my life. I would have missed school and other things important in my life, like dance. My knee was healing on its own and unlike the specialist I wanted to continue to see if my body would heal itself. Which it did, without the surgery.
My essay is coming along, and with the help of my TA Colleen doing a final edit tomorrow during office hours; I know it will be an excellent paper.
Besides doing class work, I have been getting to know my roommate Tara, who is also taking Mind, Body and Health. We get along well, and she gets along with the other IVY League students too; which is a plus! Our room has definitely become study central. With both of us, Joseph, Malcolm, and Yoline in our room, from 7pm-10pm, you can find all of us with either a book in our hand, or typing away on a laptop for an assignment. With music in the back ground, everyone is busy at work. But the study sessions have become great ways for all of us to bond, and help one another out when it is needed.
Since many of us have different classes, dinner time has become the time for us to catch up on every one's day. The table is field with much laughter and a break from the annual homework we all have every night. Now thinking back on it, we have definitely become a family. During the daytime we all go our separate ways into the world of the hustle and bustle. But by the end of the day, we meet up and relax around the people who in a short time have become near and dear to us during this rigorous experience.
I should get back to my essay to have it ready to be edited, so until next time....
Jamaya Monroe