<p>IT’S GRADUATION WEEK!</p>
<p>Started off with a bang last night. We had a bonfire/barbecue out at our class president’s parent’s house in the country. The bonfire was HUGE! probably at least 15 feet in diameter!</p>
<p>The best part? We threw our short white coats into the fire! I feel like a neophyte doctor or something…not quite an MD yet, but without the identifying markers of a student anymore. (If you’ve ever pledged a fraternity, you probably understand what I mean about this gray area between being a pledge and an initiate). </p>
<p>Anyways, I’m actually completely done, I turned in my eval from my last rotation on friday and so I’m just coasting through this week and partying with my friends. Class Banquet is Wednesday, Hooding Ceremony is Thursday and commencement is Friday! My birthday is also Thursday!</p>
<p>It’s really impossible to believe that 4 years of med school (hell, 21 years of schooling in all) has come down to this one last week. I know my real education is going to start in July, but that has a paycheck and is a job and is just different than school. I think the lack of finals and the stress of the end of the semester only adds to the oddness of having this one last week be the end of it all. Add in the complete uncertainty that is Match Day 6 weeks ago and this week is almost anticlimactic.</p>