The Breaking Up of the Fellowship

The "Fellowship"



Doing what we do best... chatting about food and wasting time

School is ending in a few weeks, and while I am so excited to be done with classes, I am sad to be leaving all of the friends that I have made during this program. My friend, MaryAnne, refers to what is coming in the next two weeks as the "breaking up of the fellowship", and while I love to tease her about it because well her reaction is priceless, I am dreading it just as much as she is.  Today as we were sitting in the lab "studying" I realized that our days of  "meaningful"  conversations are ending, the time spent discussing Tiger's divorce (seriously guys why did we talk about this), why mustaches should be outlawed, women's health issues, and a variety of equally stimulating topics is coming to a close, and that thought is much more upsetting than I thought it would be 18 months ago. 

To be honest when I applied to this program and was told that the best part of the program would be the "cohort" i was skeptical. When professors said that we would become friends, and even more than that, that we would become close friends I laughed a little (internally), but now I find myself telling other people that the best part of the MPH has been the cohort. On orientation day as we went around the room and introduced ourselves I was even more skeptical, it wasnt that they  werent nice people, it is just that well I am not super friendly (I know shocker), so the idea that I was not only going to be sharing classes with these people, but that I would become friends with them was a little bit hard to believe, but 18 months later it seems a little funny to think about not knowing them... or not knowing quite so much about some of them... 

So MaryAnne, you think of the breaking up of the fellowship when you think of the end of this month, I think of the last episode of Friends, and yes Pete, I did tear up a bit when I watched the episode (not recently when it was first on) so I can only imagine the tears coming in the next week or so.  In honor of the "finale" here are the last 10 minutes of friends.