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I am SO sad that I didn't blog at all during my time at GS. It was a rollercoaster of emotions, ending with my being really glad I was on the team I was on at the time I was on it. The resident and attendings were very helpful, taught me SO much, and pushed me to do more and be more involved and read all the time. Even though I didn't get as much studying done as I should have (surprise, surprise), I feel like I learned SO, so much.

Now I am at a state-run hospital and it is a TOTALLY different experience. At GS everything was very relaxed and it was a very supportive environment; at MC my intern got yelled at to the point of tears in my first 2 hours there, everything is so rushed, and so far (end of day 2) I have not done one thing. I'm sure it's just because I'm new and I'm not sure if they understand that I have had 7 weeks of Medicine so far, but I'm, once again, absolutely bored to tears. The patients there are VERY interesting, but just following my resident around like a puppy is getting old fast.

There is another third year on my team from another school this time (I'll call them "AC"). This is a strange experience, as AC is already very competitive with me. It is to the point that if I stand on one side of the resident to watch what they are doing, rather than standing on the resident's other side, AC will squeeze inbetween the resident and I. AC has a different concept of "personal space" than I do and it is annoying always having to try to put more distance between AC and I. AC is always trying to one-up me, but since AC has only been on Medicine for 1 week, they are not doing a very good job in my opinion of trying to out-do me. This will be an interesting relationship to blog about; I'm curious to see how we work together, as AC will be there the whole time I am.