Orientation

Today is the start of orientation for the new class of first-years at Mt. Sinai, and so an extra 120 well-dressed students are running around Annenberg today trying to fill out all their paperwork and get ready for classes to start. I think this officially makes me a second-year, because like it or not, I can no longer be a first-year student. For some reason I am not all that thrilled to have a younger group of students at Sinai-- I think I was finally getting used to my role here (as the bottom of the barrel), and faces had started to all look familiar. It's not so much that I look at the new students as competition, per se, but it's more of a realization that things are changing. I think I am also concerned that once second-year starts, things really won't slow down until after the match in 2009, which seems like an unbelievably daunting task.