A New Home

Have just endured my first day of orientation as a Dartmouth med student. Lots of quick introductory talks about curriculum, parking etc., a quick lunch, a few breaks, a hammy video comparing (unfavorably) the system of human medical treatment with its veterinary counterpart, fittings for white coats, and some great faculty introductions and anecdotes. In a few minutes there will be a picnic, indoors because as the brits say "it's pissing outside".

Last night Nikki and I swung into Hanover around 4pm after a 5 hour drive through Jersey, Massachusetts, and Vermont. We unpacked my boxes of junk and finally met my room mates: Tivon, a 3rd year DMS student, his girlfriend Katie, and a grad student named Kasey. The house is even better than I had remembered. It has a barn with stables, shed, potter's wheel, super spacious kitchen with dishwasher, pool table, kegerator, covered porch with hammocks, and is encompassed by acres of wooded yard cleft by a stream that I can hear when next to any window on the east side of the house. I'm anxious to actually move into my room on Sept. 1st when my lease technically starts. Right now I'm sleeping on a very comfortable couch, which I have no problems with after the hostels, tents, train seats, and benches of the Euro Trip.