It has been a week since I've arrived in Cleveland. It was the opposite of what I expected. I thought there would be snow by now, but it turns out it was blisteringly hot (with tons of humidity). Apparently Cleveland only has extreme weather, so once it cools, I'm sure there will be snowflakes a fallin'.
Orientation is the most mind-numbing process known to man. Between HIPAA and watching 10,000 faculty members introduce themselves to the class, it's been quite a slow week. But finally we are approaching something that resembles the educational process. Today, for about 30 minutes, a professor talked about public health. Then it was off to get in line for TB skin testing. Though the lecture was boring, I'll take what I can get. (I never thought I'd long to start school).
My classmates are very diverse. We have hipsters, jocks, preps, nerds, and tons of other stereotypes. We have one lawyer, a couple PhDs, and a handful of people over 30 (one over 40). The ethnicities range from lots of white, asian, and Indian people to ten black people and five Persians. The Persians were very excited to find each other. Since one of the five was the first person I met at school, I subsequently was able to meet the rest of the Persians and hear them swap Persian stories. Apparently, Persians either live in California, Oklahoma, Texas, or DC. And they have secret handshakes that they won't do in front of non-Persians (no matter how much I asked!)
There have been 5,000 mixers and I am damn tired. Those with the stamina to party hard have surely been rewarded, and those of us who are mild partiers still had the opportunity to wake up with headaches.
I was sorted into the Wearn Society. This means I'm either in Slytherin (because my adviser looks like Snape!) or Ravenclaw (our color is blue!). Either way, it's not Hufflepuff, so it's good. And our adviser has a ponytail. And our motto is "Feel the Wearn." So basically it has been great here at Hogwarts School of Medicine.
Peace out until next time. It's intro to anatomy and histopath tomorrow! So...it has begun.
You crack me up! I laughed for like 5 straight minutes about all the Persians!
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Dave, sounds like starting classes has been quite the relief. All of this work to get to med school, not to be confused with orientation for med school, has paid off. It's now time to get tired from natural causes, i.e. studying and lack of sleep, etc., rather than from mixers and lecture-long greetings. I just got my orientation schedule today and it looks pretty crammed. Every hour is planned from around 9:30 to 4, sometimes 7, for the entire orientation week. I hope I have a diverse class as well so I can be sure to find people just like me haha I'm totally kidding... but seriously lol Nah, really I'm looking forward to meeting some interesting people like you did and welcoming diversity, something so foreign to LU. Anyways, study hard bud and enjoy yourself! Keep us posted!
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