My monthly payments are going to be WHAT now? And other things you did not want to learn.

Med School Day 1 (kinda)

First Day of Orientation

56% percent of America's graduating physicians in 2008 had debt greater than $150,000.  We are told this to emphasize that we are not alone.  Over half of your class is probably scared shitless as well.  Of course, my school is very proud to announce that their average student indebtedness is 20 grand lower than the nation's average.  But considering 20% of the class is MSTP (aka no debt), and this is the largest percentage in the US, the fact that they're only 20 grand lower doesn't comfort me.  But anyways, we're going to try not to think of this, and pray that the financial aid team didn't screw up and think that sister is still in school, cause otherwise bye bye all aid.

OTHERWISE... we learned:

We have a cool library (duh).

We have an IT department (duh).

We have a class picture (duh).

We have to pay tuition (damn).

We have individual study carrels (cool).

Its impossible to get any work done in said carrels (oh well).

The second years say if you study outside of exam week in first year you're working too much (...yay?).

We have a school tab at the bar tonight (SWEET).