O-week, day two

Today's theme was logistics. All morning (and morning started at 7:30 am) we ran around campus taking care of various tasks... getting our pictures taken for our hospital ID cards, taking a quick tour of buildings that will be important to us, paying our various fees for things like microscope rental, having the second step of our TB skin tests, being fit-tested for respirators for airborne isolation, being fingerprinted for our criminal background checks, getting our locker and mailbox assignments, etc. Over lunch we had a HIPAA training session (and wow, that timing was not well thought out... I'd say at least a third of the class fell asleep, although we did ask some good questions). Then we did our basic life support (CPR) training session -- we'll take the test next weekend. In the evening we had the option of going to a pub crawl, a GLBT event, or a game night (you could just go home and crash if you wanted, and I think a few people did). I was a little bar-ed out, so I elected to go to game night. We played a rousing game of Taboo with a pretty big crowd of people and it was a lot of fun. Our medical student-ness was painfully apparent with our explanations of some words... "media" being something you can grow bacteria or cells on, for example. My team won (yay!).

Aside from a poor footwear choice for the running around this morning (something that is sadly chronic in my life), it was a great day. Tomorrow I don't have to be there until 9:15!!! Acclimation must be proceeding pretty quickly since I'm already thinking of that as decadently late instead of painfully early.