My First Official "Freak Out"
Posted by Amy in SRNA Life on August 27, 2009
Background: For the first few months of anesthesia school, my fellow students and I are in class Monday through Friday. Class begins at 8:00 every morning with the exception of Wednesday, on which we begin using our brains at 0645. We have been warned time and time again to arrive to class early, as running late is unprofessional and frowned upon.
(You see what I did there? That's a little something called foreshadowing...)
Early yesterday evening, I sat at home studying my anesthesia system book, when I began drifting off to sleep. Knowing that I retain very little information while struggling to stay awake, I made the decision to take a nap and went to my room to lay down. When I awoke, it was dark outside my window and my clock read 8:37. I know this because I muttered that time under my breath, along with more than a few obscenities, as I ran around my house trying to throw an outfit together and collect my thoughts.
One of those thoughts? How, just hours earlier, I had sent an email to our assistant director containing my personal mission statement, which included arriving prepared. This, I'm pretty sure, requires that I arrive in the first place.
After roughly 30 seconds of meyhem, I finally thought to look at another clock and realized that it was actually 8: 37 PM. I'm not lying when I say that it took me another 2 full minutes for my heart rate to return to baseline, after which I immediately called my classmate, Dave, to laugh about the mishap.
His response?
"Wow, A. Young, stressed-out much?"
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