Medical College & Hospital

There’s always a lot of activity at 88 College St. Between the students running to their next lecture and the patients trying to find the right entrance, it never really stays quiet. This Medical College & Hospital has been part of the landscape for a long time. You can see it in the way the stairs are worn down in the middle from so many people walking up and down them every single day. We spend a lot of time directing folks who got turned around in the hallways. The main lobby is usually full by eight in the morning. It smells like floor cleaner and that specific hospital scent that sticks to your clothes. Some of the windows in the older wing don’t close all the way, so you get a bit of a breeze in the winter. It’s not a perfect setup, but it’s where we do the work. The elevators are pretty slow, so most of us just take the stairs if we’re only going up a floor or two. It’s a big place with a lot of moving parts, from the labs to the wards. We have a small canteen nearby where everyone grabs tea, and you can always hear people talking about their exams or their shifts. It’s just a busy, lived-in building where people are learning and others are getting checked out. We just keep things moving as well as we can every day of the week.