"A Day on Campus" by MSIH first year blogger Jonathan Sidlow
Most mornings I walk out the door of my apartment reviewing a concept we learned the day before in class. However, by the time I complete the 15 minute walk to the 6th floor of Soroka’s Internal Medicine building, our usual classroom area, I often find that my mind has wandered. The bustle of many students hightailing it to class on their motorized bikes and scooters creates a frenetic buzz and turbulence closely resembling the energy of Beer-Sheva as a city. At first it was disorienting to hearing Russian, Hebrew, Amharic, Arabic, and English spoken on the street in such a short span of time, but after a while you get used to it. The diversity of the cultural milieu here in this little spot on the map surrounded by desert competes even with that of New York City, as does the driving etiquette. The approach to the Internal Medicine building involves walking past a small playground adjacent to the Pediatric ward. When the play...