as soon as you start, you're behind...

on the first day of orientation, one of the deans said to us that during these next four years, we'll need to learn 55,000 medical terms--that's the equivalent of learning to speak four foreign languages... that's probably romance languages, so maybe it's like learning chinese one and a half times or something like that...

anyway, i've been at this medical school thing for two days, and it's amazing how far behind i am already... kind of shocking to someone who generally likes to tie things up completely, because i don't think that'll be possible anymore... there's no way you can learn it all...

i started anatomy yesterday, and i won't say much about it here other than it was an amazing experience--honestly, it's a privilege--and i was much more composed than i thought i would be... i had a lot of trouble dissecting a frog back and middle school and thought this would be magnitudes more difficult for me personally...

guess i've come a long way from that frog...

anyway, back to the books... i'll try to update a bit more later...