Saturday, July 31, 2010

The Becoming

I got my white coat this morning along with the other 158 College of Medicine M1 students. It was pretty exciting and the auditorium was packed with people. We are now officially students of the Health Science Center. Although class doesn't technically start until Monday, we already have several reading assignments to complete before the first lecture. I spent most of the day running errands and then started to dig into my reading assignment. There's a party tonight for the M1s and M2s, so I'm trying to read up as much as I can before the festivities commence.

Friday, July 30, 2010

Orientation: Complete

Yesterday was the last day of orientation, and was only a half day. We went over the various websites and computer programs we are going to be using, as well as the test-taking software. We then had a meeting with a bunch of M2s for a Q&A session that was pretty helpful.

In the evening we celebrated the end of orientation week at Fox & Hound for $2 beers. We soon migrated to Northgate where we spent the rest of the night barhopping and ended up in the Presidio swimming pool. Good times.

Today my parents are coming up with some other family members to attend tomorrow's white coat ceremony, so we will probably be driving around town and having dinner later. Everyone will probably go out again tonight, so we shall see what happens...

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Orientation: Continued...

Yesterday was basically another repeat of the first day, with more informational sessions and details regarding the grading system and a detailed rundown of our class schedules. At the end of the day we had a decent icebreaker where we had a sheet with an interesting fact about everyone and had to go around and find out who each fact belonged to. Needless to say, I hardly remember the names of anyone outside of the 30 or so people that I've been able to retain in my head. We got our first reading assignment for Histology, even though class doesn't start until Monday... it was a tedious chapter about the various types of optical and electron microscopes and the procedure for producing tissue slides.

Today was another story, as we had orientation for Gross Anatomy as well as Histology and Radiology. It was pretty much like a class day, since all we did was go through lots of notes and slides covering material that will be included on our first test. Now we have to review a bunch of the slides from the lectures in preparation for class on Monday.
Tonight, however, we party.

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Orientation: Day 1

Today was mostly spent going over lots of technical details such as grading, classes, rules, and utilizing the College of Medicine's resources. Very long and boring day from 7:45 til almost 5:00.

Tonight we all went out to Northgate and I showed some people around the area and introduced them to some of the cooler bars. Now it is time to get some sleep as Day 2 begins at 8:30.

Monday, July 26, 2010

Introduction

Tomorrow is the first day of orientation week. Classes will begin August 2nd. Check-in is at 7:45, I am excited to see what the day has in store.