A Meeting of the Minds

On Thursday we ventured to south KC to meet up with some of the med students. The Foundry was the place of choice and Jordan enjoyed 2 different types of beer and I had a half-priced Appletini ($4) and a Hippie Dip ($6) (amaretto, cranberry juice, orange juice...and maybe rum?). Both were good, but being the type of person who'd rather spend $12 on an entire bottle that will last for many drinks instead of 2 drinks and a tip, I still thought we were wasting our money a bit - but that's not the point of the evening.

It was actually a pretty big group that got together - and this was the first time they'd all met each other, so it was fun to be there for that. I wasn't the only non-student there, which was nice. Amazingly enough, we met another student and his wife who are from SD! And, another strange coincidence, the wife sells PC...like me! We were like-minded on a lot of things, which I'm sure comes from being from SD. We're looking forward to getting to know them more.

The group was 15-20 people, so it was hard to talk to everyone, but our table quickly went deep - they (the med students) started discussing Obamacare, so that conversation went on for quite a while. We also learned about a really cool-sounding psych museum in St. Joseph's that we're planning to visit next week. Other topics included religion/what church to attend, where everyone was from/where they live in KC, their journeys on getting accepted to KCUMB and their disbelief at actually starting med school in a few weeks.

All-in-all, it was a great night and we're looking forward to more like it. It's hard to believe that by this time next year some of our best KC friends may be right here in this group!