Dropping the Dead Weight

There's not much to say other than sometimes it's time to move on.

Back in the day, when this glorious blog was just a twinkle in our collective eyes, We decided to take in a certain associate even though he had already successfully run one third year blog into the ground. We're generous guys, what can we say. But it's become clear that his attitude towards allowing posts about cake recipes was really just a sign that he isn't ready for the big leagues yet. We have standards here, standards that cannot be measured in number of YouTube clips posted or pumpkin latte reviews.

A great burden has been lifted. Let us move forward in the name of Domination!

Copcats!

Over the course of your academic tenure here at Duke, you start to notice when people are copying you. While mimicry may be the greatest form of flattery, sometimes it really is just annoying. And lame. This has escalated recently, with random guys in white coats sitting in our original Office, some terrible rival 3rd year blog attempting to act like it is more official than How to Dominate Third Year blog, and others acting like they are dominating 3rd year as efficaciously as we Office Workers are. What really grinds my gears, however, are these 2nd years that are going through their rotations on the wards. We just did that people. Get over it. I know you want to be like us; I get it. I'd want to be like us too. But really, you're just copying, and that's no good. And don't get me started on the 1st years.... they are copying kids copying us. Muy horrible. I know you may be asking, "Barney, what about your predecessors at Duke Med?" That's a good argument, but I must retort that this is the only year that has constructed an organized Office with an official online web log of its many experiences. Such originality separates us from the rest, take note of that.

At the Office, copycats really get our goats. So I plead to you, stop copying.

Office Productivity Retreat

Ropes courses? Passe. Productivity seminars? Pretty sure we would dominate that. Office paintball? OK, maybe we'll keep that on the back burner.

No, dear colleagues, we decided to boost Office morale at the Durham World Beer Festival. We'll be tackling issues such as intra-office synergy, strategic value propositions, and coordinated team kegstands.

Let's just hope Barney Stinson doesn't vom all over the place...

Heart...Walk?

Over 10,000 people participated in the AHA Heart Walk last weekend.

I won.

That's how I dominated 3rd year...