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?”

I couldn’t just ask for a new internship simply because I didn’t like my assignment, and there was no way I could explain the real situation to the dean. How could I tell the dean that I didn’t want to be assigned to the sports

go to the first few sessions,” she said as she filled in a portion of the form. “If you still really hate it by

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

dismissed me and I exited her office. Jessica was sitting

asked. “What did she

replied. “She wants me

it’s not exactly what you wanted, but look at it this way: at least you get to deal with all of the handsome

voice sounded anything but

with her elbow. “How could you

I wanted to tell her that I didn’t want

wondered if he

the living room with a stained white sheet around her and a canvas that

running over to open the window. “The fumes!” Lori chuckled.

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all the time anyway,”

help but laugh

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

my head in to see a pretty woman with wavy brown hair sitting at a desk. She looked up and flashed me a toothy grin as she waved for me

said, standing up from her desk and coming around to greet me. Much

from a person who would deal with sweaty, whiny athletes all day. In fact, even though she was

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

didn’t want this internship or if I should just

you alright? You seem depressed. You know, I’m not just your mentor with this internship; I’m

reason, I felt comfortable being candid with Tiffany even though I was usually not the type of person to spill my

to say this, but… I was actually hoping for a

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