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I started clinical one semester ago, and almost in the middle of my second semester. The hospital I was at last semester was 30 minutes from my house and because of traffic It would take me 1hr to 1hr and 30 minutes to return home. My classmates all had the luxury of a 10-15 minute commute while I got screwed coming home all the time. Meanwhile, this semester they opened up two new clinical sites, one of which is seriously right next to my house and I thankfully got that site while the other one is 30 minutes from my house. Since being there this past semester, I have loved it so far, am doing good in my evals, and am learning a lot more and not taking over one hour to drive home every day. However, next semester one of the other students was assigned to the second hospital that opened up this semester which is 1 hour commute from where she lives and is begging me practically to leave the hospital I am at right now and travel to the other hospital which is 30 minutes from where I live. I definitely do not want to do this. Why? Because I have already gotten accustomed to the Hospital I am already at. Everyone else was at the same hospital for two semesters while I am getting switched every semester, which is frustrating because I am having to relearn different hospital protocols and having to learn the ropes all over again. If I comply with switching my hospital (again) this will be the third hospital I switched in a row while no one else in my cohort has, and it sucks having to relearn everything and start as the noobie once again; All my classmates are complaining "it's not fair" I get an easy commute but I swear if they lived down the street they would be begging for that clinical site. Any thoughts?? I hope I don't sound selfish