My first school week of the new year has officially been completed! It has been pretty hard to adjust back into a daily working routine after turning my brain off for two whole weeks, but I think I am managing pretty well. We have a busy month in ISM and I plan to dive headfirst into preparing for it next week as I spent most of this week simply dusting the cobwebs off of my brain that formed from all the inactivity. Next week, I hope to conference with Coach Goff and Rachel in order to begin my mentor visits, which is one of the most exciting things I have done this year in ISM. I have been looking forward to gaining real world experience ever since I first learned what this class was all about. Physically getting into the clinic and interacting with patients and learning all about what the process is like is an opportunity that I am incredibly grateful to have had offered to me, especially in these troubling times. This pandemic has made things incredibly difficult for everyone over the past year, but I am ecstatic that this is something it has not taken away from me. I am very optimistic about this next week in ISM.