Type A People

Wanna know the difference between type A people and type B people?

When type B people (normal people) look at an orientation schedule and see that there is a session scheduled from 8:00 am to 10:00 am on a Monday morning, but that there is no assigned speaker or meeting room, they assume that the scheduling was a mistake and sleep in until 10:00 am when there is a scheduled meeting room and speaker.

When type A people (strange people, dental students) look at an orientation schedule and see that there is a session scheduled from 8 to 10 am on a Monday morning with no meeting room or speaker, they assume that this invisible lecture could possibly be the most important of the semester. They will follow each other like lemmings to the lecture hall most likely to have a speaker waiting for them and wait...for twenty minutes...before calling to see if perhaps there was a mistake....

And finding out that there was a mistake.

Yes, that was my entire class of 98 direction-following-people-pleasing dental students this morning. We waited for almost a half-hour for an orientation session that would never begin. Bless our little hearts!

Jeffrey started his orientation today and is enjoying the boredom that it entails. But our days of boredom will soon be gone like the wind (and our loan money!), and the classes will begin in earnest. I have heard the change in pace is somewhat like the zero-to-sixty acceleration of the Mr. Freeze ride at Six Flags.

Ladies and gentlemen, buckle your seatbelts!