Orientation week madness!

This past week has been a crazy mess of meeting people, having drinks, trying to memorize names, and oh yeah...preparing to start school!

Monday night a group of us got together via facebook and other randomness and all met in Clairmont at Michelle's place (Michelle went to state with me and i foresee many night sleeping on her couch) . We ending up coming back there after realizing most bars closed at 11pm. Then the real party began and shots were poured left and right. I believe the motto is work hard, party harder ;)
Tuesday was a hang -over day but quickly turned into another hang out day. I went riding with Nicole in san dimas and went home to prep for the first day of medical school orientation!
After finally falling asleep around 1am i woke up at 5:15am Wednesday....i headed to school for our 7am boot camp..

It has been a long day and i have learned a lot about the process to come. Some things to note: -3,900 people applied to western this year, 550 were interviewed and 222 were selected to our class.
-There are way more guys than girls; i think it was around 95 women and then rest are men ( i am liking the ratio)
-with the great ratio,i have met many many people that are engaged or married
-i am SOOOOO excited to become a D.O. after hearing every professor speak so highly of the school and its reputation
-i learned i am not the only one who has answered "what kind of doctor do you want to be" a million times ;)
-my faculty mentor is amazing and i could not have picked a better match to help me out for the next 4 years
-apparently med students spend more money on alcohol than books because basically no one buys them since we get around 50 pages of powerpoint pages a day to learn (and that is with 3 to 4 slides per page!)
-i will accrue approximately $50,000 of INTEREST debt that will be added to my loans


So Wednesday night a great member of our class decided to host the first med student party for the Class of 2013. I met at Michelle's and we drove over to a new friends place and hung out for a bit. Then it was off to a house party (the first of what i am told will be MANY) and met waaaay more people (which means learning waaaaay more names :/ )

Thursday morning i woke up once again on michelle's couch and we headed to school for 8. We were both tired (and not to hung over i swear! we knew it was gonna be a hard morning so we planned not to drink to much) and we headed to starbucks. Then, it was back in the lecture hall for another day or presentations and speakers. We received a 'bone box' today which is pretty self explanatory...a box of every bone in the body (yes they are real) to study. For those that have not taken anatomy, this is because we dont just need to learn the names of the bone we need to learn every characteristic about every bone. For example, the humerus has the landmarks: the head, anatomical neck, greater tubercle, and intertubular groove of the surgical neck, the trochlea and capitulum, both the medial and lateral epicondyle, the olecrenon fossa and corresponding coronoid fossa, and a portion of the shaft (dont worry i totally just googled that but i kinda knew it from anatomy last semester!).

So now i am back at michelle's hanging out and we are off to the school sponsered Ice Cream Social at the Dean's house from 7 to 8:30 (no i am not 12...they are really doing this)