so far, so good

[I'm going to try to start using caps.]

Today marks day #1 of scrubsalldayerrday(minusweekends).

Hi y'all. 

So to answer the huge question up on top, grad school is so far, so good. :)

(Oh yeah, for those of you who forgot what I was doing -- I'm pursuing Occupational Therapy.)

Yesterday was just a perfect first day. I had orientation in the morning, which included listening to/watching a picture music video on Youtube of "We Must Go" by Tim Hughes (still not used to being at a Christian university...) and playing a scavenger hunt game... 

ate vegetarian food for lunch (courtesy of the OT department) with new friends...

note: LLU does not have/permit meat on campus. ugh.

had our first anatomy lecture (with PT [physical therapy] students), which I found out is

pretty equivalent to Coloring 101, if you count out

 having to memorize all the freaking bones, muscles, nerves, tissues, and such....

(We have to bring our color pencils to class errday.)

(Look at how thick our anatomy syllabus/notebook/coloring book is.)

... then celebrated the success of our first day of school with leftovers and Anchorman. 

Also, my aptmate Jen (say hi!) couponed (cuz we cheap) while I made the following:

"... the perfect first day of grad school." 

"... new beginnings, with new friends to experience them with."

:)

Today was the first day of our 8am-5pm grind + wearage of the scrubs (I wore classic navy first, and am planning on wearing the more embarrassing colors when I get to know my classmates better). 

                                               

I sacked my first (somewhat pathetic-looking) lunch today. I haven't done so since.... I don't even know. 

 I'm proud of myself for not falling asleep once during lecture/lab. Well, maybe it's because all we do is listen, color, and label (which are my areas of expertise, I must say). 

The 2 things I hear in class: the professor talking and people shuffling their color pencils.

Today also marks the day I encountered a naked dead body (or more like a preserved human cadaver soaked in formaldehyde) for the first time. We're not allowed to take any pictures beyond a certain point outside our lab, for confidentiality reasons of course, but I wish you got to see how fake and pepto-bismol-pink they look. I know my group's cadaver is a female (we haven't gotten to see her face yet) and I don't know exactly what her history/cause of death is, but for now, I will call her something chonss, like Bertha or Gertrude.

On a more important note though... 

One thing included in our 8-5 schedule each day is a thing called "Morning Moment" (which is pretty much a devotional). It's named that so non-Christians won't feel uncomfortable, but I mean I bet they still do, considering all the faculty members talk freely about God anyway. 

Regardless. It's a way for our professors/TAs to give us some sort of encouragement, biblical or non, before starting the gruesome 8-hour day (of learning just anatomy). The fact that we even have these embedded into our daily schedule is a such blessing. It allows/will allow me to start the day off feeling hopeful and confident (in God), and gives/will give me my personal "moment" to thank Him for placing me in that very spot at Loma Linda University and for granting me all the "moments" I will experience later on in the day, whether it be good or bad (today was good though, thank you Lord). 

I am looking forward to tomorrow.

... What the heck?

Time to study and then sleep at like... 10.

... and then repeat.