Exams and Flag Football

I’m back! We just finished our fifth exam today and finally are coming up for air.   For the most part I think our class made out pretty well… so long as we passed that ethics final we just took (which is questionable)! 

 Last Saturday, American Association for Women Podiatrists (AAWP) hosted a flag football tournament. And my team WON! (well… we won one game…) We met up bright and early on Saturday morning at the school pavilion. There were eight teams spanning first through third years.  I noticed the older the team, the better and more seriously they played.  There was some intense game planning done by the better squads… I even saw plays being drawn out with leaves.  My team was just impressed enough of us showed up! While others ran drills, we took a very productive team power nap.

 

 

The winners (I think it was Yellow?) got money back towards their t-shirts and a gift certificate to The Winking Lizard!  All in all, everyone had a lot of fun and the tournament was a great way to celebrate the first day of fall!  For the most part, we all walked away healthy (with some sore muscles later that day) although I’m pretty sure I saw a couple rolled ankles…

 

Next weekend we are going to Pumpkin Village and since Halloween is my favorite holiday and fall is my favorite season, I’m already excited!

White Coat Ceremony

White Coat Ceremony

Well the big day finally happened!  After two days of orientation (and a visit or two to the local Fox & Hound) our class was all set for our white coat ceremony. The ceremony symbolizes our transition from undergrad to student doctors. Friends and family met us at the Independence High School auditorium to support us as we took our next steps (podiatry pun intended!) toward our profession as doctors of podiatric medicine.  During the ceremony our class read aloud an oath we created just days before at our orientation.  After receiving our white coats we met at the school for a light reception and more pictures! 
 

After years of dedicated and committed studying, donning the white coats really made me feel like what had brought us here was finally all worth it.  Suddenly, those countless hours of studying for the MCAT, the costly and stressful trips to interviews, and those awkward days of shadowing podiatrists had finally paid off.  Sure, we’ll have an even more difficult next seven years, but now it all means something.  And now we have a big, shining light at the end of the tunnel!  I look forward to spending the next four years with my new classmates and can’t wait to see where the future takes us (… in our pretty white coats)!