fandomhigh | Human Anatomy, Thursday, 01/11, Period 3

Elliot looked like she was halfway between bouncing and running away in terror as she started her first class of the semester, and she kept wiping her hands on her slacks as if her palms were sweaty.

"Hi, people, welcome to human anatomy, which is the study of structures and systems of the human body,. If you didn't sign up for anatomy, you're in the wrong place. If you stick around without registering? You're volunteering to be dissected.

"I am Elliot Reid, which yes is a guys' name. Blame my dad. Call me Elliot or Dr. Reid. Doing the E.T. voice on Elliot will freak me out and earn you a detention. But basically, it's pretty easy not to get a detention in here - show up on time, don't miss more than three classes without letting me know, and don't be incredibly hugely obnoxious, and you're golden.

"I am passing around a couple of things. First, you have textbooks, which are yours to keep and love and put under your pillow. Second is my voice mail number. Call whenever. I'm also in my office Friday mornings, if you need me outside of class.You're also getting the class roster and syllabus. Syllabus is a guideline, not a rule -- it can change. Finally, my TA is John Dorian, so if you can't find me for something, talk to him."

Done with the preliminaries, she pointed to an area behind the rows of desks where seven-foot stretches of paper were taped to the floor, with buckets of markets between them. "To help make this class more visual, you're going to pair up and trace each other, and then we'll tape the drawings to the wall to fill in the body systems on as we learn them. But before you do that, I want to do some introductions. Say your name, your grade, and two interesting things about yourself. Starting with .... you." She closed her eyes and pointed randomly into the group.

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"I didn't hear anything, because I'd never be interested in drinking anyway." Janet hid a grin and nodded mock-seriously. "I'm finalizing my application this weekend. Stupid entrance essays."

"Of course not," Elliot agreed. "And yeah, the essays are hard. I'm doing some applications to fellowships now and it's even more fun."

"Ooh, fellowships?" Janet perked up in a somewhat geeky manner. "What fellowships are you applying for?"

"I really want to be an endocrinologist," Elliot said. "I'm looking at a couple of different schools. Seattle Grace, Princeton-Plansborough, St. Elegius in Boston... I used to hear good things about Cook County General, but it's getting sort of low-rent."

"I've heard bad things about Kingdom Hospital too," said Janet. "But I haven't looked at any of the others. So what aspect of endocrinology are you interested in? Or is it just all of it?"

Elliot talked for about four minutes about her research interests in endocrinology, taking very few breaths along the way. "Well! I don't want to bore your classmates by going on about that forever," she told Janet. "But we'll definitely talk more about it the week we study that system."

"Not everyone is as fascinated as we are, you mean?" asked Janet. She grinned. "If you decide on St. Elegius, I'll buy you a crappy beer when I turn 21."

OOC: If I vanish abruptly, it's due to lunch time.

"I may take you up on that," Elliot said. "And I hope you enjoy this class. Yell if it's going too slow."

"Oh, don't worry about me," said Janet. "I'll probably be asking for extra reading material by next week."

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