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We know you're both excited and nervous about the coming years and we want to do everything we can to start students off on the right foot. The next year is going to be difficult, but you will make it, and along the way you're going to make 150 new friends, meet some great professors, and learn many astounding things (much more than you thought possible). You will learn millions of facts in relatively little time. The goal of this introduction to medical school is to let you know what is in store for you and to give you some hints to avoid pitfalls. This portion of the Med Student Home Page represents a collection of information that students past and present wanted to make available to you. The knowledge here is written by students for students. It is not a tablet from the mount, and nothing here is set in stone. Instead, it passes on the ways in which past classes have handled their affairs so that future classes can make informed decisions about how best to make their own way. Each class has its own personality and its own challenges but most will confront the same issues that have presented themselves year after year. Putting all this information together in one public place available to everyone from the first day of the first year allows everyone to start out on equal footing, with an equal fund of knowledge. Hopefully this will remove some anxiety from a difficult undertaking and make everything better for all. It can not be emphasized enough that your experience here in medical school will in largest part depend on the degree to which you work to support everyone around you. You are not alone and it is possible to compete academically and still commit yourself to making sure those to each side of you in the lecture hall are succeeding (both academically and socially) as well. Medical school is a daily commitment of sharing, tutoring, listening, and humor. To that end, teach each other, take notes for each other, invite one another to dinner, share information and resources with everyone, use the class email address, and chat with each other using the Med Student Discussion Board. Be an involved member of your class: do not leave it to someone else to do all the work and leading for you. Take initiative!