Week 1 Reflections
This is going to be one of those blogs that I kind of skim over (sorry) because there are too many words in it, but I’m sure there are other people out there who love random people’s musings - so here goes.
Week 1 did not disappoint in it being a roller coaster of emotions and feelings. Orientation was slightly dreadful, yet exciting because the entire time I felt like I had to say - omg you are in med school and these are your fellow med school students - instead of this is just another grad program.
Things started off a little slow, which I extremely appreciate now. Mid-week, however, the shit storm that is med school rained down upon my soul and I may have shed some tears thinking, “why the heck did I really want to do this again? I could’ve been a really hot wife picking sunflowers and working in interior design.” But resilience is the name of the game and the next day I got to use a bone saw, which I surprisingly really liked wielding, and I feel like I can do this ... for now anyway.
I feel like I’ve found a solid group of people for now - I appreciate living with roomies because my d&t (dark & twisty) self can definitely be okay with not meeting anyone new so I’m glad I have two bubbly people with me to wake me up for 8am classes (seriously can people stop coming to class so early?).
One of my moments of panic was when I had to take someone’s blood pressure and I couldn’t hear anything.... b/c i’m a baby first year who doesn’t know how to do anything
One of my moments of hey this is awesome was when I used the bone saw... like actually guys. It was pretty cool. Oh and when I dissected out a pretty mean sub-occipital triangle with a lab partner and our prof called over other groups to look at our work.
So yeah - highs and lows. Currently hitting my head against the wall because what is anatomy, but listening to the Amélie soundtrack and writing this is helping me get back to some type of zen. I’m going to try and write weekly reflections because I think it’ll be important for my health later on. Let’s see how this goes - thanks for reading this all the Tumblees out there who like reading word posts