#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 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?” She was right -- I couldn’t just ask for a new internship simply because I didn’t like my assignment, and there was no way I c