My First Day

"You see, today isn't just anyday. It's my first day. I'm the man..."

For those of you avid fans of the tv show scrubs, you may recognize
that quote as one of the first lines jd says in the very first
episode titled "my first day". Hence the title of this post and the
picture of my new, ahem, scrubs, that I will be wearing tomorrow for
my first day of gross anatomy. Now, granted he was referring to his
first day of residency which is insanely different, but let's not ruin
a good moment with the particulars.

Anyway, I just was thinking about how my time here has been, and will
continue to be, a lot of firsts. It's the first time I've ever been on
the east coast for more than a week. It's the first time I've ever had
to leave everything and everybody I know to live in a new place. And I
guess it will be the first time I make a first step into what will be
my career for the rest of my life.

Foe those of you wondering, I absolutely adore philly. The orientation
week was a blast, and my future classmates are all intelligent,
driven, and for a lack of a better word, nice people. The transition
has been much easier than I thought it would be and there are so many
interesting things here in such a largely different culture it almost
boggles the mind.

There are entire walls of buildings that are covered in hand painted
murals, decorated with art supplies in a way and scale that I didn't
think was possible(I'll put a picture of one on my next post.). The
layout of the city is tremendously easy to navigate, especially for
someone as directionally challenged as me. The public transportation
here is easy too, the subway essentially gets me almost anywhere I
need to go.

All in all, this is probably the smallest "big city" I've ever been
in, but that's not a bad thing. Hopefully it'll be okay to keep me
occupied for the next four years even though I'll be studying a lot.

I miss all y'all a lot and I hope everything is going as well in la as
it was when I was there to enjoy it.

Jon