Orientation starts in just under two hours, but I can’t sleep, so here I am blogging.

Last night, 1/7th of my local cohort, in other words, 7 of us, got together for a dinner I organized. The food was good, but the company was better. Our ages ranged from “just graduated undergrad two weeks ago” to me. We had the extrovert to the one that appeared to be more introverted. One of us has already completed the Public Health portion of her dual degree program. Another was from Connecticut and yet another had a background as an ED Tech like me. In other words, a pretty diverse group, even with just the seven of us.

But, we all had one thing in common: we’re all nervous as all get out! We’re about to leap into the great unknown and it showed. We talked a bit about our upcoming Medical Terminology exam on June 11th (sort of a make or break exam, if you can’t pass it on two tries, good-bye. But apparently no one has failed it in two tries.)

We all wanted to know what today, Orientation Day, will bring. Fortunately I was able to chat with my mentor via text after dinner so I got some idea.

And we were curious how classes will work. Our schedule gives us some clue. Many are local but some are remote via Zoom with the Glenside campus outside of Philadelphia. That’s the mechanics, but the zeitgeist is still a bit up in the air. I suspect for the remote classes, many of us will still come to the classroom in order to stay in “student” mode and not be easily distracted back at our apartments or homes.

I have to say I had a feeling of relief after dinner since it was nice to know I wasn’t the only feeling like I did yesterday morning.

So in two hours, the great adventure begins.

My only regret is that I failed to get a group photo. Maybe in two years we’ll get the same group together for a good-bye photo.