White Coat

It’s been a great week here at Buies Creek!  Ryan is currently napping beside me… two weeks have gone by since I moved and it has been SO great to spend this weekend together! 

Week 2 of classes is done… not stressing yet.  We had some serious anatomy this week, two classes and two labs.  Let me just say I already feel 10 times smarter than I did two weeks ago.  We have to know so much in such a short time, but we all help each other and it’s not so bad.  On Wednesday we got to open up our cadavers!  I won’t get too graphic on you, but it was so cool to see inside the human body. Some highlights were cutting into the ribs with a power saw (not gonna lie, I was a little scared) and holding a lung.  Each week we will learn about a different body system.  We also had our first History & Physical lab and right now we’re going over taking histories and vital signs.

My roomies & I had our first “family dinner” this week… taco Tuesday.  Sarah makes me coffee every morning (because I don’t know how) and Jeff whipped out his baking skills this week and made us a homemade cheesecake.  Trust me when I say they are pretty much amazing.   

Yesterday was a special day that we had all been looking forward to for a while… our white coat ceremony!  This marks the transition from us being pre-professional students to starting our professional education and career.  Friends and family came from all over to support our class of 44.  Getting this white coat makes it official and I am so thankful and grateful to be here.  Each one of us worked so hard to get to where we are now and I can’t wait to have some great experiences with this group!