Being in the hospital is less scary now as I have become more comfortable in my role as a student nurse. I'm getting used to being in the hospital, and talking to patients, nurses, doctors, and the hundreds of other special services that come through each day. We're all there together, with the primary goal of caring for people who need to be cared for. I no longer dread Tuesdays and Wednesdays. I have embraced the suffocating terror of patient care.

But I would be lying if I said I wasn't tempted to stay on the train every morning and see what 54th and Cermak is all about.