Senior Stuff - boards, banquets, and biscuits

Let me catch you up - Bryan and I graduate in LESS THAN 1 MONTH!  I still can't believe it.  We've passed boards - don't believe that one either.  Tonight is OUR Senior Banquet - not sure that's really true.  At some point I'm going to be shocked when all this sinks in - we are DONE with dental school!

After four long years, you would think I would be ready for this, but I'm not.  The past 4 years have been the fastest of my life.  Yet, in those 4 years I have learned so much and the way I look at the world (and definitely peoples' teeth) has changed drastically forever.  It's amazing when I think back to all that I didn't know about 4 years ago.  A simple (yet scary) example is that I'm not sure I really knew what I root canal was 4 years ago... now I am weeks away from being a licensed dentist, and yes, I do know what a root canal is and even how to do one now :-)  But when I think back on how much I've learned and how my perception of health and teeth will never be the same, it starts to make sense why it feels to go by so quickly.

Boards (taken last weekend) was a fiasco.  Bryan and I were very blessed to come away unscathed, but many in my class had issues due to a new board that was.... lets just say they were beyond incompetent at running a national board exam, and many, many people failed due to errors on their part.  It has left a bad taste in everyone's mouth, even the people like us that were fortunate to pass on the first go round.  We are blessed to have a wonderful dean who has stood up for the students and demanded they offer the exam again at our school.  This doesn't fix everything, but is a big help to those who have to take it again.  Needless to say, this has been unwelcome drama and stress for our class here at the very end.

Tonight is the Senior Banquet.  A final chance to be together, laugh, poke fun at faculty and ourselves, and enjoy witty nerdy dental jokes with a roomful of people who laugh with you instead of give you condescending looks for laughing about teeth.  I have come to love the 55 people in my class so much and will miss them dearly when we part after May 17th.

Biscuits??? This has to do with school, I promise :-)  When we spend the week blocked in either oral surgery or oral medicine, tradition requires a Friday breakfast feast.  The faculty have us conditioned to spend time and money to bring them a hot and creative breakfast every Friday.  A few weeks ago, I made these delicious mini-scones (Recipe source: Leite's Culinaria).  If you ever need a scone or biscuit for a luncheon or tea, these are phenomenal!

The picture doesn't do them justice.  They are so tasty.  I used asiago cheese (other option was to use gruyere).  Next week is the last week of clinic and I will be in oral surgery, so you can look forward to another tasty breakfast treat next week.

Oh - and guess what we are doing tomorrow?!?  Moving the first load into our  new house!!!  Wait, you mean we actually really own the house we bought back in February?  Weird.