Island Med Student

I have finished the second week of my psych rotation. I absolutely adore every aspect of the rotation, except for the commute. It’s actually very strange for me being a med student on a psych ward. I previously only knew the experience as a psych tech. You get so much less patient contact as a med student…and so much more paperwork. But I love it. I mean, I really do love it.

I am commuting from my apartment in Baltimore, MD to the St. Elizabeths Hospital in Southeast Washington, DC every day. The drive takes me anywhere from an hour on a good day to two and a half hours on a bad day. Given the heat (lately, in the 90’s), and the lack of AC in my car, it can be a hellish commute. Pretty much the only redeeming quality of the commute is listening to NPR, which I love.

I realized the other day that I am commuting from Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Baltimore, MD to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Washington, DC. I am also commuting from one stadium (Oriole Park at Camden Yards), to another (RFK Stadium).

Chris Rock famously once said, “If a friend calls you on the telephone and says they’re lost on Martin Luther King Boulevard and they want to know what they should do, the best response is ‘Run!”

So funny, yet so true!

Note: I didn’t take the pic above, but rather, I stole it from Google Images. I promise to take some good pics of my commute in the future.

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