Nothing wrong! He was sweet, smart, and held the door open for me, but we were just NMWB who tried dating, and I realized he wasn’t my type. ANYWAY, GUESS. WHAT.
And what’s your type? Let me guess, some pimpled med nerd that spends more time with his hands than real people?
Is holding doors a requirement? Haven’t you learned how to open one yourself?
Why wasn’t he asking about my news?
Pimples happen when sebaceous glands become clogged and infected, leading to red, pus-filled lesions. That’s nothing to laugh at or bully anyone about, Rudy. Also, they’re more likely around puberty, so my potential nerdy doctor wouldn’t have any anymore.
And masturbation is healthy if done hygienically.
Bunny Doc strikes again Your fantasy doc probs wears glasses thicker than his…stethoscope. But don’t worry, I’ll make sure no one bullies him about that terrible condition.
PS: Are you healthy then?
That was smooth. Annoying, but smooth.
I snorted, and a girl with glasses at a nearby desk cleared her throat so loudly that it startled me. Embarrassed, I turned back to my phone.
Doctors aren’t my type, either. Maybe surgeons, if they’re like Mark Sloan… but who doesn’t love a broody heartthrob with scalpel skills?
No reply.
I stared at the screen. Still no bubbles.
My plan to gather information about my mate had to be put on hold. With a frustrated exhalation, I set my phone face down near my book. Back to the actual brain-burning material.
Memory is a complex process that includes three phases: encoding (deciding what information is important), storing,and recalling. Different areas of the brain are involved in different types of memory (Fig. 6). The brain has to pay attention and rehearse for an event to move from short-term to long-term memory. Long-term memory is processed in the hippocampus of the temporal lobe and is activated when something needs to be memorized for a longer period of time.
Like the moment I met my mate, forever engraved in my hippocampus. I could replay the scene in my mind like a movie, new details popping up every time I rewatched it. The way his eyebrows arched, sinful lips curling, golden locks caressing his forehead, muscles rippling with every micro-movement. I shook my head, scolding myself.
You have to focus, Yvaine, and get this medical degree!
I wasn’t doing this solely for my own passion.
It was for every girl who’d been told no—told she wasn’t smart enough, steady enough, strong enough to hold a scalpel, let alone a brain. It was a statement to anyone who’d ever tried to shrink us in an operating room, in life, or in love.
We had never been small; they’d misread the scale.
I forced my focus back onto the page.
On the other hand, short-term memory, also called working memory, occurs in the prefrontal cortex. It stores information for about one minute, and its capacity is limited to approximately seven items. For example, it enables you to dial a phone number someone just told you. It also intervenes during reading, allowing you to memorize the sentence you just read, thereby ensuring that the next one makes sense.
That particular reading was forgotten altogether when my phone lit up the table beneath it.
Whoisthat
No punctuation. Someone was texting under the table.
Haven’t you seen Grey’s Anatomy? Mark’s a surgeon on the series. Where have you been, living under your rock?
So this dude doesn’t even exist? You’ve got a crush on an imaginary person? That’s ridiculous and annoying
Rudolph was probably frustrated he couldn’t hit Mark Sloan, who didn’t exist apart from in most women’s hearts.
Another text swished through.
And you still didn’t say. Why’d you stop dating that dude?
