Start looking for an apartment early. Find a place that will let you move in during July, it stinks to have to move in during orientation week.
Buy lots of business casual and professional clothes, you'll need them a lot for Physician and Society and Clinical Skills.
Don't study the summer before. If you're still in college, take easy classes next semester. Enjoy the next few months because you're going to be doing nothing but studying come mid September.
Also enjoy the first five weeks. The first two weeks are First Responder, and the next three weeks are Physician and Society. Both are easy and don't require a ton of studying. Use those five weeks to explore Cincinnati. After that you start Fundamentals and s*** gets real.
Learn to live in the moment and forget about the future, if you spend all your time thinking about everything you have to do in the next week (which, for me, is a clinical skills exam, a weekly exam, a histology exam, anatomy peer teaching, an anatomy practical, and a Fundamentals final exam) you will be very stressed. Just focus on what you have to get done today. The sooner you learn that, the better.
Make friends with your LC. You will see them every day for two years, and pretty much all of the group work you do is with them. If you don't get along, it will be bad. The people in my LC are my best friends here and I couldn't have gotten through the last semester without them.
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