Disorientation

First day of orientation.  I have received my schedule for the first block of classes (anatomy).  Wow.  Just wow.  I haven't seen a course schedule like that since high school.  9 am (and sometimes 8 am) starts?  This is going to smack me pretty hard in the face after carefully planning my undergrad experience to avoid classes before 10 am as much as possible.

The mixer last night was surprisingly fun and un-awkward (for the most part).  That's something that's kind of cool about progressing up the education scale.  I went to a public high school, which meant that the students in attendance were just the kids from the area.  No one had to apply and be selected; we were just a random assortment of personality types.  Then I went to a small, private liberal arts college.  The kind of college that attracts a particular kind of person.  Also the kind of rather selective college that only accepts a particular kind of person.  So most of the people in undergrad with me were, if not cut from the same cloth, at least purchased from the same fabric store.

But medical school is even smaller and even more selective.  It seems like just about everyone I met last night had something in common with me.  It sounds cheesy, but I honestly clicked with everyone I talked with.  I had a pretty easy time making friends in college, but I've never wound up with so many new numbers in my phone at once.  Now if only I could remember at least half the faces that go with these names...