Back to the Back Row

Its the day before school begins again and I’m ready. I’m ready, I’m ready, I’m ready, I’m ready. Am I? Second year of medical school, can’t be that different from first year. Right? I don’t know. I guess I should have been asking people one year of ahead of me what second year will be like, but I haven’t been. Hell, I didn’t really think I would make it this far. Immunity and Infection, can’t be that hard….can it? Organ systems, ha, that’s just anatomy again, just in more detail….great. At least no FCP or PBL until November or something, that’s nice, but eerie. They can’t be that nice to us. There must be a reason, oh right, that’s because the first two months are pretty rough, that’s about the only thing I did hear about 2nd year. But I’m excited to get started, I’m ready. I can’t wait.

This year will be different. Oh, I’ll still be in the back row, a tiger don’t change its stripes, no doubt. But things will be different I’m sure. We have to print out the notes on our own this time. What’s that about? School trying to save some money or something? Maybe they think we want to stare at a computer screen all day. Forget it, I get enough of that by writing and reading blogs, I don’t want to go blind, I don’t think so. I’m assuming most of us will print out the notes because most of us tend to write things down in class and then there are some of us who make lots of notes (you all know who you are). I’m going to assume that most people will head to the library computer lab to print out the notes, so it looks like it will still be the schools paper used for the notes. So whatever the reason for making us print out the notes on our own instead of handing them out all together, well it doesn’t make any sense to me.

Things will be different. I’m going to make more of an effort to get to know the professors. Last year I felt bad for not getting to know them better, plus I might need them to write me a letter of recommendation. I’m not sure who the 4th years ask to write them a letter, maybe it’s the faculty from their 3rd year rotations or maybe not, but I haven’t really gotten to know any of the professors so maybe its time to get better acquainted. So if you see me heading down to ask questions during breaks don’t be surprised and don’t confuse me for a gunner either. That’s not my style. Back row here I come.