One week in...

and a whole lot left to go.  First week actually wasn't so bad...spent the vast majority of my time attempting to learn about a semester's worth of cell bio in four days, which was relatively time consuming since I never had it in undergrad.  Once we hit epithelium on Friday, I was set.  For anatomy, honestly my only "concern" is that it's seemed far easier than I had imagined thus far, at least as far as the academic material goes.  Granted, there hasn't been that much of it, but I feel like I've done well getting a handle on it pretty quickly.  Lab....well, lab is another monster.  It's not that I don't like lab.  I think it's pretty cool to be able to see all this stuff on a real human, especially when you find weird little abnormalities and differences.   It's just....well, for one thing it's insanely tedious.  Spending three hours in a lab where only about half an hour is spent actually identifying structures is insanely frustrating to me--the rest of the time is generally spent cleaning (i.e., picking fat off of stuff) or watching.  Doesn't really help that I'm not terribly fond of the people I'm at the table with.  Not that they're bad people, they're just...not my type, for lack of a better phrase.  

The biggest thing, though, is that while I'm pretty much 100% sure I'll be 100% fine academically, my biggest fear about med school thus far is that I'm never going to make any good friends.  It seems like everybody else in the class either knows people from UofL, or from prematric, or from somewhere, and so there are already these little groups of people who seem to be good friends, who study together and hang out after class or go to the gym together or something.  I keep trying to meet people, get to know some people to study with or hang out with or something, but it just never seems to work well.  Saturday night a bunch of people went to a local bar, but it was the same deal...everyone else seemed to already know everyone there except me.  It's very isolating...I just want to be able to have a small group that I can go out with for dinner or coffee or whatever after studying, but I can't seem to work my way in anywhere.  I've met a couple of people that I like who are very nice, but I can never find them in lecture to sit with and they're almost always gone before me in lab, so I don't get to see them much.  I probably shouldn't worry about this so much, but it just gets tremendously frustrating when all I want to do is get to know people.  I think I just suck at making friends.  

On a more positive note, the olympics were cool minus the crappy judging in gymnastics.  Sigh...four more years til London.