Week 1: The First Week of Orientation

The theme of the week: Anesthesia school is having your mouth wide open, turning on the firehose, and swallowing every last drop. 

Of course, I haven’t experienced this quite yet — this first week consisted of the following:

  • Meeting classmates, and those in the other 4 anesthesia programs in Michigan
  • Feeling that being a part of AANA and MANA is vital to the profession
  • Getting nervous/excited
  • Sitting in business casual clothing (as opposed to scrubs)
  • Getting acquainted with the program handbook, the hospital, etc
  • Buying program shirts/sweatshirts (yes, this is important)

And aside from school, I

I feel that I still need to establish the following:

  • Wellness — having a 80% healthy diet and a health routine that’s worked into our study / class / clinical / sleep schedule. My roommate introduced to me Yoga with Adriene. She’s down to earth and moves nice and slow, which is good for a beginner like me.

Anyways, it’s probably also good to know that our class is going to help each other out. I’ll try to update this blog once a week with at least one thing I learned that week. These next 24 months are going to fly.

Jess

Stress level:
two

 

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