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One thing I haven't held back on purchasing in medical school is books. Many of my peers prefer to obtain required learning resources online (either free through the library or in purchased e-book format), but there's something about the smell and feel of brand new books that I find highly appealing. Perhaps I'm a bit old-school, but flipping through page after page of unforgivably dense text and finally finding the answer to your question(s) is more rewarding to me than using an auto-find feature on a web browser.

In other news, I just celebrated my 75th birthday and am currently telling tales about how "there was no such thing as toys when I was a kid" ...