First Day Reflections

1. Everything's strangely the same. The school buildings are the same. My classmates are the same. Okay, it was a different PBL Tutorial session but the atmosphere was more or less the same. Nobody looks remotely different. Except maybe Lise who had gotten bangs over December and then decided she didn't like them.

2. I was right. My "crush" was nothing more than a whimsical fancy of the moment. I think I imagined the whole thing. At the very least, it didn't survive the two-week Christmas break. So I'm back to scratch. I don't mind very much, although I know later on the monotony of it will make me blue and that would be the stimulus necessary to start for another man-hunt. However, the pickings are very slim. After 10 months, all the handsome faces have lost their ability to attract.

3. And speaking of back-to-scratch, that's what's going to happen to our research. The problem with our group is that our group leader is too nice so he let's us have a Christmas break while he does the whole thing himself. We might have gotten away with it although I do have qualms regarding the validity and reliability of the results. However, our research adviser got wind of what we did. She told us she was "almost at the point of being angry with us". Sounds like a good thing, doesn't it? It means, she's not quite in the anger stage yet. But she was very firm and told us we had to do everything again. Oh, and did I mention that we now have an extremely limited time left? There's no longer any room for any mistake.

4. Rumors from the other school. It seems as if they (my fellow first year medical students) did not have a Christmas break at all because they were studying for their unit exam. When I think of the hours I spent watching 45 episodes of bleach, Season 4 of House and Grey's Anatomy, I'm still not sure if I should pity them or myself.

5. Lyss and I are the only first year medical students left. We're in the PDR room studying. Or at least she's studying. I'm blogging. It's kind of like a loser thing to do. Studying in school during independent study time, I mean. The cool thing to do is to study at coffee shops or somewhere equally elegant and sophisticated. Oh, well. I am serious about turning over a new leaf and that includes studying during Independent Study Time.

6. I still have free access to the wifi here at school. Yipee!!!