"graduated" again

last weekend, we had our residency "graduation" dinner... there wasn't a real diploma involved or anything, but it was to celebrate the end of our general pediatrics training. it didn't feel like a momentous achievement, like medical school, but in a lot of ways, it means even more than just getting to write the M.D. after my name. i am supposedly capable of practicing general pediatrics on my own now! i feel ready... and yet SO UNPREPARED at the same time.

I feel even less prepared to be a fellow in hematology/oncology in just a few short weeks. i have no idea what this is going to be like, in a new hospital, with new residents, new everything!! so when people ask me "wow, you're moving soon, are you excited???" i'm not really sure how to respond to that! yes, i'm totally excited, but i'm so sad to be leaving Chicago and i'm terrified that i won't know enough to be a fellow. gosh, transitions are hard!!

We are packing up, slowly, but surely... selling off our furniture... the apartment is starting to look more barren. I'm in denial and it still hasn't FULLY hit me yet!

Here's our class photo... I am really going to miss all my friends and colleagues.