Dateline 8/6/06

It has been a busy few weeks....and it is about to get worse. At the end of the summer,I met a girl on Craigslist and had a great summer fling. This lasted for 3 weeks or so, but then on August 1st,I quit my job,packed up my stuff, and got ready to move to Philly. I could not move in, however, until the 5th so I spent a few days in NYC, and visited my parents in Rochester before eventually moving in. Now I am here in Philadelphia's City center neighborhood trying to get used to the new surroundings and meet new people.
I have now finished 2 days of the program's 3 days of orientation, a lot of which is scare tactics to get rid of people who aren't that serious. That is note really necessary though, as they handed out the packets for the first module, and it was very clear (to me at least) that med school classes are no picnic. You basically need to commit an absurd amount of facts to memory, it is a giant data dump, and in this program, the 50% or so who remember the most get to move on, the rest go home. I am looking forward to the challenge and I cant wait to get started, although I can wait for the 12 hrs per day studying..