Chapter 10: The Internship

Nina

“Well? What’s your assignment?” Jessica asked.

“Um… sports medicine,” I replied, handing the phone back.

Jessica looked confused. “I thought you wanted-”

“Surgery, yeah,” I said, grabbing my bag and heading for the door with Jessica on my heels. First thing in the morning, I would go to the dean of the medical school and ask for a reassignment.

“And why do you want to be reassigned?” the dean asked as I stood in front of her desk the next day. She was a curly-haired woman with glasses and a hard face.

I swallowed and tried to calm my

nerves. “It’s just… not the direction I was hoping to take,” I replied. “I don’t

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like sports medicine.”

“You can’t just ask to be reassigned because you don’t like the internship,” the dean said. “And besides, you haven’t even tried it yet. How do you know you won’t like it?”

situation to the dean. How could I tell

out a form. “Just go to the first few sessions,” she said as she filled in a portion of the form. “If

have to go to a few sessions where I’d likely have to deal with the hockey team, seeing as how they were the most likely sports team to be injured, but at least I could get out after that. Not to mention that sports medicine was totally not even close to the field I actually wanted to work

dismissed me and I exited her office. Jessica was sitting outside.

“What did

“She

lunch. ” I know it’s not exactly what you wanted, but look at

sounded anything but

Jessica said, nudging me with her elbow. “How could you not be excited about getting to touch

just don’t want to be around Justin,” I replied. I wanted to tell her

if he had something to do

and I went home. Lori was sitting on the floor of the living room with a stained white sheet around

running over to open the window. “The fumes!” Lori chuckled. “I didn’t notice

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you’re high all the time anyway,” Jessica replied

couldn’t help but laugh

go and meet my internship mentor for the first time. She sent me an email with her office information; it was located in between the soccer field and the hockey arena. It was chilly out and getting

it and poked my head in to see a pretty woman with wavy brown hair sitting

around to greet me. Much to my surprise, she hugged me. I was a bit taken

a person who would deal with sweaty, whiny

finally pulled away from hugging me. I’m so happy to see another young woman working in sports medicine! We don’t usually get female students in here, so it’s always nice to know that there are other women who are

that I actually didn’t

because she looked at me with concern on her face. “Are you alright? You seem depressed.

to come up with my response. For some reason, I felt comfortable being candid with Tiffany even though I was usually not the type of person to

I was actually hoping

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