White Coat Ceremony

This past weekend was the very "exciting" white coat ceremony.  Although several of my close friends in med 1 decided they didn't want to participate the majority of the class did, making for a very long long ceremony!  It included speeches from our dean, provost, and our student government council.  Because there were so many students, the students that had guest had first priority with sitting in the Flex room where the actual ceremony was taking place.  However, if you didn't have parents/guest at the ceremony you were shunted to another large classroom where the ceremony taking place in the Flex room was "suppose" to be streamed live on a screen......that didn't happen.  So, if you were unlucky enough to get placed in classroom 5 you didn't get to see or hear anything, you were just brought back up to walk across the stage and that was about it.....many students are not very happy about that.  Waste of good study time as far as they were concerned.  Despite some angry student I had a good time and enjoyed spending a lovely evening with my mom and dad.  It was exciting to introduce my parents to my good friends and my mom was glad I have such great people to share my medical school experience with on the island.  The school provided a beautiful evening on the school lawn with a steel band and tons of delicious food and drinks.  I just feel so very very special that my parents took the time out of their busy schedule and spent their hard earned money to come and spend that landmark evening with me!  I also have to mention that I have had several students come up to me or Facebook message me mentioning that they met my parents and how nice they were.  Made me very proud to have such kind and wonderful parents.  Below are just a few pictures from the evening and I will probably post a few more within the next day or so. 

As you can tell it was a beautiful evening with beautiful people.  A great time was had by all and for me it was also great to meet the parents of some of my friends.....very amazing.  Wish I could do it again!  Graduation perhaps? YES!