paging the resident

its a ritual that occurs with each new rotation. we get a packet of information. we're told what is expected of us. and how often we will be spending the night at the hospital each week. they explain what is mandatory and what we can skip. and then we get a pager number and we're instructed to page our resident to meet up with our teams. We walk in a herd to the nearest phone and line up, single file. Each one of us takes a turn, dialing the 4 digit number and the rush of anxiety builds as we await for the return call. Will we look like a fool and be asked a thousand pimp questions today? Will we be scutted around the hospital? Or get lucky and leave early? What will really be asked of us? Will we get along with our team? Will lunch be involved at any point? Where is the nearest bathroom? Its these questions that plague our minds during the paging of the resident. Luckily the anxiety only builds for a few minutes, until they call back, we introduce ourselves over the phone (they either sound happy, indifferent, or bothered) and they tell us where they are and we leave the line of med students to join our teams.