Wake Forest School of Medicine - Gray Matter Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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At the beginning of the Enthusiasticene there were 54 unique individuals placed in one unyielding environment and as Darwin so aptly put it. . . There is a struggle for existance and a survival of the fittest. At first the anatomy and biochemistry facul- ties seemed like ruthless predators but as we gradually adapted they appeared more friendly and less threatening and we actually established a symbiotic arrangement that carried us both through the year. IO

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The second period, known os the Ischiocallosicene bore heovily on those with sporse tubercle podding ond to the ever threotening ocodemic environment wos odded the extreme ronge of ternperotures found in room 183 to which no one could odopt but by vorious mechonicol meons we survived. 'Firm 12