first day of class tomorrow

Tomorrow is the first day of class! yay. I went grocery shopping again this weekend, bought some cookie material and baked 4 dozen oatmeal raisin cookies for a dinner get together at my friend Kelly's apartment. I brought some cookies to work, I went in for some more training, only took like an hour because there wasn't much to learn. Gave some cookies to the security guard at Tufts and to the person I was working with. I was gonna give em' out to people who came by, but nobody came by, and I didn't see anyone I knew at the library. oh well.

At night we went over to Kelly's apartment, there were 6 of us, and the dinner Kelly made was pretty awesome. I still have a ton of cookies to give away tomorrow. I think I'm going to the medford campus too because of RCC training. I don't have to go, but I feel like I should go meet the rest of the staff so at least I know who I'm working for. Then I gotta rush back here for the medical equipment fair. Then I think I want to go to the gym, so I'm going to need some sort of lock. blaaaah. this past week was fun, I went out like 6 days in a row. I only had alcohol like 3 out of those 6 days though, still that's waaaaayy more than I usually drink in a whole year. I feel like I will be having more alcohol in med school just because everyone else does. O_o.

I wonder if I should run for student office, or something like that. I feel like it might be kind of fun, but I don't really know what the responsibilities are. maybe the diversity representative for my class, a la CalSO. That would be awesome. I need to talk to some people to find out more information. 8 am tomorrow! going to sleep now.

end of orientation

today was the last day of orientation. I learned how to do cpr, although I'm not too confident about putting it into practice. The people I've met all week are awesome. Although I feel like I'm already falling into the trap of sticking to the people I know better. There are still approximately 150 people I still have yet to know better. might be a little bit hard. It feels like I just went through a quick summer camp, and then I'm going back to normal life next week, even though next week is all new. The class schedule kind of sucks, I have to be in class at 8 am. !!! after class, I might even go visit the medford campus in order to meet the other RCC's and just get to know more about Tufts Online, my new Rescomp. I think I have decided to take Saturdays and Sundays, and possibly Mondays and Wednesdays. fun.

I'm really tired and think I should go to sleep. need to get myself back on sleeping schedule. I think I know what I need when I can't sleep. alcohol. right? it makes me really sleepy, and it's not like I will have to buy a lot because it doesn't take much to mess me up. I might go buy some this weekend so I can go to sleep earlier on sunday. =D

end of wednesday, but it feels like it should be friday

This week has been very very long. to me, it feels like it should be friday or saturday, but it's really only wednesday. Tomorrow it is thursday. more like today/right now. I went out every freaking night to party with my med school class. I have been meeting some really cool people, and I'm starting to feel like I fit in. just gotta find the right people I guess.

I'm going to be working in the computer lab again! this time.. it's just like RCC helpdesk. I just have to sit there, and wait for people to bring in their computers so I can fix them. It should be a pretty easy job. I'm probably gonna take the saturday sunday shifts, from 2-7pm. It'll force me to study too, because I'll have nothing else to do. sweeeet. I guess the job responsibilities are different from boalt. I don't have to fill printer paper, or manage any computers so it's easier in that respect, but the wage is also a little lower, which is ok.

ok, I'm really exhausted, luckily no programs until 11am. I get to sleep in!

post orientation party, day 1

So I went to a social event tonight for the first year medical school students. It was pretty cool, a lot better than the actual orientation. I met a few people, including a girl who went to Berkeley, that was pretty awesome. I'm now convinced that there are a lot of cool people in my class, I just have to go out and meet them and get to know them better. That's all. I'll be going out again tomorrow night, where I'll probably meet even more people.

orientation day 1: disorientation

today was sort of confusing and disorienting. They should have called it disorientation. So there was a lot of stuff going on, lots of talks that kinda went in one ear, and out the other. I signed a few papers, I could have been signing my life away and I wouldn't know it. I mean... I probably did sign my life away by becoming a med student? anyways. there are a whopping 171 people in my medical school class. OMG. that's like 1/3 of my high school class. that's crazy. I met a few cool people, but the whole thing was very impersonal. There are social events planned for every single night of this week. I guess I will be going because I don't want to be an anti-social hermit for the next 4 years.

Since it was so crazy, I couldn't really find people that are still looking for housing. I didn't really try that hard either. So instead, I posted an ad on craigslist. I followed some of my cousin's advice, who said she found a roommate within days after posting less than a week ago. I've already received 3 responses within 2 hours, that's pretty good if you ask me. I just gotta sift through them and make sure they're not psycho.

On another note, I did go to the computer lab at school to see if they had any positions open. I emailed some lady, and apparently they do, which is awesome. She sounds somewhat excited to have me too, since I'm basically from the medical school campus, and I have a good computer background. From what I can gather, it seems like undergraduates come from the Medford Tufts campus (read: far away) to come work here. maybe. I've been worried about my money situation, even though I should be ok for at least one year with my savings. But I've never not had some steady source of income since freshman year of college. So now I can go out and make Khoa spend all his money and not feel bad. =D

I was supposed to go to bed bath and beyond today, but I'm going to go tomorrow. Instead I filled out a bunch of rebate forms. There's also somebody coming by to look at the apartment soon. I got my membership to the Wang Center. That's awesome, I just like saying it. Wang Center. The Wang. haha. So the local YMCA is apparently named after some dude named Wang. It's within a block of china town, go figure. I will be going as soon as I finish showing my apartment to this guy. then I will go buy some chinese food, because I feel like eating some grease tonight. I'll finish off the rest of my salad material tomorrow.

omg grocery shopping is a pain

but I want to eat better. no more bad-for-you fast-food and other stuff. I need to eat vegetables and fruit or else I'm gonna feel like crap and my body is going to die. I might have to use that 1-up sooner than I thought. I just got back from Shaws, the east coast equivalent to albertsons. I even bought some peanut butter that said "packaged by albertsons". anyways, my arms are dead tired right now. I walked like 5 or 6 city blocks that felt like 10 because of the $30 worth of groceries I was carrying. I miss my car already. So 4 days ago I bought some tropicana orange juice for about $3.50. Today, I bought 2 minute maid orange juices for $3. #@!$ ok, no more food from the small store just around the corner. I was going to buy 4 of them, but then I thought about how heavy they would be. Tonight I will eat healther to make up for all the crap that I've eaten for the past 5 days. I wonder if it will be enough. look, here is my new rewards card, yay.
Hopefully my cousin will come back soon and be able to take me to costco! then I can buy that trash can that I've always wanted (no, not really, I just need a new trash can), and enough toilet paper to last me 4 years.

orientation is tomorrow, exciting! I still need to finish cleaning up the apartment, because one of my cousin's friends is coming to stay over for a week or two before his lease starts in September. ok time to go have a glass of orange juice.

1 more day before I really start my new life

so there's only one more full day until orientation where I get to meet all my new classmates. I don't remember how I felt when I was about to go to hopkins jr. high, but I can imagine that it felt pretty similar to this. The first day of school in junior high will probably feel somewhat similar as well. Except now I'm more prepared to go out and mingle. sweeeeet.

I went to best buy today via the T(that would be subway for people who have never been to boston or don't know a thing about it), it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I took a long time there though, it took me forever to decide what universal remote I wanted for the TV (the remote was lost). I also had to buy new AAA batteries to power my mp3 player. I can't live without it, people at berkeley should remember me with headphones on all the time when I went outside. I think I left my bag of batteries on the plane, which really sucks because there were a lot, and I had a nice little plastic holder for my AAA's that I got in Taiwan. damnit!

So the cool thing was, when I was checking out at Best Buy, I have no idea what the lady at the register was doing, but she just scanned the batteries. What happened to the universal remote? I just put it in the bag along with the batteries. My total came out to be $12.59. !?wtf?! ok, I wasn't gonna complain. I just walked out the store, with my headphones on and went to go look for a new trash can that I did not find. I guess the whole trip wasn't too bad. the grand total came out to be $15.09 because of my roundtrip using the T. not bad for a universal remote and 4 rechargable AAA's. I hope Best Buy doesn't come after me now.


I made some new additions to my perler bead nintendo zoo. So that would be Kirby, Alex (from River City Ransom) getting beat down, and a better, non-symmetrical version of a 1-up mushroom a-la super mario bros. 3. I'm going to need that 1-up when I die within the next few weeks. but I will save that discussion for the future when the time comes.

my zeroth step

so it has been a while since I last wrote in a blog. I used to use movabletype, but it got annoying having to maintain and update so I decided to take the easy way out this time around and have someone else make it for me. and here I am.

I'm not really a doctor yet, but I hope to be in 4 years. If you don't know who I am, it makes me wonder why you are reading this. I never really figured out the appeal of reading the blog of someone you do not know. maybe it's exciting, or you can relate to others. Maybe you like living vicariously through other people's lives? Either way, this probably won't be too exciting. If I keep up with this long enough, you might get a taste of the medical school experience, without actually having to go through all the studying, hardwork and stress that typically exemplifies the medical school experience.

To be honest, I haven't actually started medical school yet. Orientation starts in 2 days. It's kind of scary, I'm going to be meeting a ton of people, which I usually love doing. But for some reason, I really don't feel like meeting people right now. I'm already feeling kinda sad, and missing the security that was fremont/home for the past 2 years. Well, not really sad, but I do wish my friends were here to go out and have fun with me, and explore the great city that is boston. These last three days in boston have been chock full of cleaning and walking. Exciting. Cleaning my new apartment has been sorta nice, I can organize stuff the way I like it, and I know where everything is now. Walking around the city has been kind of annoying, but you gotta do what you gotta do. I won't have much time to walk around once school starts, so it is kind of nice.

Time to go to sleep because I need to adjust my sleeping schedule to waking up at 7 am, ughh....