I have spent 20 of my 26 years regularly attending lectures*, sitting in classrooms and lecture halls for some amount of time between the hours of 8 am and 5 pm. Would you believe I'm finally done? Yesterday was our last day of lecture; on Monday and Tuesday I have a couple group things to go to school for, but yesterday was the last time I will have sat in an auditorium for a lecture as part of a lecture-based curriculum.** It seems too good to be true! I can now look forward to sleepless shifts and standing for hours on end, as opposed to sitting in the same seat for 8 hours in a row trying not to fall asleep. Hooray for me!
To get to that point, I just need to pass finals, study full-time for 5 weeks straight (ugh, more sitting at a desk for 8 hours at a time), and take the worst test yet in my standardized test-taking career.*** I'm not really looking forward so much to that part, but June 18 (3rd year orientation) will be here soon enough!
* I'm not counting kindergarten, because even though I went to an intensive-prep Montessori kindergarten, we didn't sit in chairs facing a chalkboard. So grades 1-12, 4 years of undergrad, 2 years of grad school, and the first 2 years of med school = 20. Crazy!
** I will still have lectures to attend over the next two years, and many years more after that, but they will be parenthetically placed in a schedule of wards and rounding, instead of the focus of the curriculum.
*** Of course, each successive standardized test is the worst of my career. SATs for college, MCAT for med school, now Step 1 of the USMLE for residency. Next it will be Step 2 (OK, that one hopefully won't be so bad, as long as Step 1 goes well enough), and Step 3 to get into fellowships. I really am a glutton for punishment.
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In other era-ending news, Prince William has broken up with his girlfriend, Kate Middleton. I have to confess that this is happy news for me, as I have harbored a longtime fantasy of becoming a princess. Now if only I can figure out how to meet the guy...
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Of course, when you're standing for hours on end, you'll look back nostagically to those times when "all you had to do was sit in class." Time has a way of changing perspective.
But congrats on yet another milestone! Good luck on those finals!
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