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.