Indiana University was absolutely the right place for me to go for my undergraduate education. I’ll never regret the experience, the knowledge I received, and the friends that I met there. I chose biology as a major, not because I felt that I needed that education to enter medical school, but because it was the […]
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Choosing Where to Go to College
Deciding where to go to college was a bit of a struggle. As I mentioned, I went to a small high school. I graduated with about 65 people. After my experience with high school, I was looking forward to going somewhere bigger. I wanted a place that offered a wide range of experiences and some […]
Gotta do Work!
My parents expected me to go to college and fulfill the goals I had set for myself. They didn’t have the means to get me there, however. That was never a secret. If I wanted to go to college, I was going to have to work hard and get some scholarship monies or perhaps get […]
Back to Indiana and High School
The summer before 6th grade, we moved from Kentucky to Edinburgh, Indiana. My dad took up a job helping our aunt and uncle run a Waffle House. My dad would eventually go on to work for Cummins, maker of Diesel engines, headquartered in Columbus, Indiana. The remainder of my primary and secondary education occurred in […]
Early Years – The Intro to Medicine
I was born in Bloomington, Indiana, and my family lived in Indiana until I was 7. We moved to rural Kentucky the summer before I started 2nd grade. We moved to a town called Avawam, Kentucky – in Perry County. Perry County is a small and impoverished county in southeast Kentucky. Coal mining is a […]
Introduction
My name is Ryan Harrison. I am an orthopaedic trauma surgeon at The Ohio State University. I have been thinking a lot about writing recently. It is something I have always enjoyed doing, but don’t do enough of. Twitter has been a great experience so far, but I don’t think it goes far enough to […]