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The Ivy System and the sacred White Coat Ceremony…
Today was a big day. Today we received our white coats. They are still bleached white with nary a stain. In many cases, they are comically oversized in body and undersized in sleeve. They feel strange to wear. Would I venture down a crowded hospital hallway wearing this coat? Heck no! Someone might mistake me for someone that knows something. Would I wear it on an airplane? Um, no. I’d be “pitting out” (just learned that term from a fellow med student - it means sweating through your shirt pits) the entire flight fearful of that terrifying announcement: “We have a medical emergency. Is there a doctor on board?”
Hour Two: Morris and Jack return to CTU, where Buchanan questions Bauer on what led up to his brother’s death. Nathan Patrelli’s wife who is named Marilyn on this show tells Jack that she’d been trying to leave Graem for a while but was too scared. Why is that all I have to do is bend over to pick something up and wait for a back spasm?! Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had back spasms before,piatjelta - pia tjelta
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but I’ve had more since turning 30 than in all my life. What is it? You turn 30 and things start to slowly degenerate? Or is it just that I’m finally starting to take notice of every pain in my body now that I’m 30?
Oh, and she followed him to a house once where she heard him talking to some Russians. Talk about a convenient lead! Since CTU is looking for Gredenko now, Jack offers to take Marilyn out (no, not like that) and see if she can remember the house. Ha Ha! Good one! She tells Zephram Cochrane, who immediately gets his goons to plan an ambush. Why doesn’t he just go back to teaching pigs to herd sheep? Meanwhile, various folks are planning a coup in DC, sensing the President is weak. Jack and Marilyn arrive at the house and Jack and his team head
But I’m getting ahead of myself. In the afternoon, shortly after a “meet the deans” luncheon with students and parents, we gathered in a lecture hall to learn about the “Ivy System”. Can you believe that Ivy School of Medicine has no grades? Most other med students don’t. Yeah, a lot of places are pass/fail. That essentially means you get a grade and then it’s mapped to a different type of grade, a P (e.g. an A, B or C) or an F (e.g. a D or F). But here there really, truly are no grades.
Instead, everyone is assigned a super-duper-secret code number that they are not allowed to share with anyone. The only other person that knows your super-duper-secret code number is the registrar, who you can go to if you forget it, somehow. When you take a qualifying test online (only happens a couple times a year), you use your super-duper-secret code number. If you happen to fail that test, as I understand a rare occurrence, then you do have a responsibility to come forward and ask the professor for help. But it’s your responsibility. They only “break the code” if a student fails one of the rare qualifying exams and does not come forward.