Regression

One of the first things we learned in my class "Systems of Human Behavior" (yeah, not my hardest class) is that when a person wants to escape stress, one possible defense mechanism is to "regress" or partially return to an earlier stage of development when life was easier. Maybe it's just that I've regressed to deal with the stress of starting med school, but lately I've started to feel like my life resembles more and more what it was like in pre-school.

TOP TEN REASONS I FEEL LIKE I'M BACK IN PRESCHOOL

1. At 8:30am a huge SUV comes to pick me and six other girls up to go to school

2. I have class 8 hours/day (about the same amount of time I spent in preschool every day)

3. Everyone goes to all the same classes together in pretty much the same classroom

4. There are only 40 people in my class

5. Occasionally we sit in a big circle outside on the grass and eat lunch--we have yet to start a pick-up game of duck, duck, goose though :(

6. Sometimes the staff buys us pizza for lunch and ice cream cups with those little wooden "spoons" for dessert

7. So far I have three sets of flash cards to practice

8. Just about everything I know about physiology I learned from my coloring book (no, really )

9. Maybe I should have counted how many reasons I had before I titled this list

10. Ok that's enough