Comedy, cruises and general laziness

I'm officially in the middle of orientation week. I'm tired. The first day was ok. I showed up for breakfast and awkwardly looked for people to talk to, which took a while. Most people did the whole "Hi, where are you from?" thing, and when I told them Berkeley they didn't seem exactly interested. The majority of responses have been "Oh yeah, there are a lot of people from Berkeley" followed immediately by the person finding someone else and conversing with them. One person actually turned their back on me and started talking to their friend. That's not exactly the warmth I was expecting from someone thrown into this crazy med school thing like me. Naturally, that person is on my shitlist. I guess I didn't realize half the people already know each other because they did undergrad at Northwestern, so it's kind of a weird dynamic and trying to make new friends is way harder than I thought.

I eventually found some nice people, and we went to a comedy club the first night (Second City). They did mostly sketch comedy and some improv, and they were really really good. We also went for free, so that was nice. I think one of my favorite lines was "Oh honey, did you see this abortion bill? What do you think?" And the husband said, "Pay it." It probably doesn't translate as well on a blog. They also did an army recruitment scene where they ended up calling both Rumsfeld and Bushie 'shitheads,' which made me so amazingly happy. That's my favorite insult ever (hehe).

Yesterday was ok. We have orientation at 8am everyday (except tomorrow it's at 7:30, those bastards), so the fact that I hadn't slept enough Sunday and Monday nights kinda caught up to me. After all the boring info sessions during the day, we went on an architectural boat tour which was actually really chill and nice. I tried to take pictures, but it was kinda hazy, as you can see.

So you can see half of navy pier at the far left and you can make out the Hancock Building on the right. Despite what it looks like, yesterday was actually pretty sunny and crazy hot. I was sweating profusely throughout the entire thing, even though it was about ten degrees cooler on the lake than in the city (I still don't get how that works). As you can see, these random people fell asleep in the heat. I actually don't know who they are, I guess I just didn't lift my camera high enough to get them out of the picture.

Sears Tower is the tallest building that looks ominous and pointy. Apparently Trump is in the process of building a residential tower that's taller than Sears Tower (or almost taller, I forget), but that's only halfway done right now. There's also another residential skyscraper being built that will definitely be taller, standing at 2000 feet. It's this building:

It's disguised as a residential building, but in fact it will be the world's largest vibrator. I've been told twice now that there's a sapphic building, which I have seen, that was built by a woman in response to all the phallic buildings designed by men.

This isn't the greatest picture, but I think you get the idea. I feel like these two buildings should meet or something. :)

Anyway, I've basically given up on social activities for now, because it is way too forced to be enjoyable. Also, did I mention I have to be at CPR training at 7:30am tomorrow? I know my attitude isn't great, but that's because it is a giant 'fuck you, fuckers' to the people giving presentations. The gist of most of the presentations has been proving that not forming meaningful relationships with other people throughout your life will lead to a sad, lonely, young death. My take on it is that now they want us to be good doctors by studying all the time AND by finding, forming and maintaining 'meaningful relationships.' It's like maybe this would be a good idea if my personal life hasn't taken such a horrifying beating by my career. Like at this point it's Career: 5,392,671, Personal life: -3. But now they have proof that I'm more likely to die young because of this, and they decide to share this with me. Fan-fucking-tastic. As if I'm not stressed out about school enough. Fuckshitfuckfuckfuck.

So yeah, instead of dwelling on this I decided to forgo the social activities, take a walk along Michigan Ave and along the lake, and just chill and read. I figure stressing myself in order to make friends, then dealing with the stress of figuring out who's a normal human being and who's crazy, and eventually reaping the benefits of those friendships is asking way too much right now.
Also, I miss you guys.