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November 30, 2004

 

Interviews:

Just got back from a 2-day trip in Detroit – Sinai-Grace and St. John’s.  

Sinai-Grace – totally what I imagined going into Emergency Medicine = poor, indigent population and tons of trauma.  It’s actually only 10-15 minutes from a pretty neat area of Detroit to live in.  Biggest drawback is that it’s really tough – workload is close to LA County’s.

St. John’s – interesting area, they get a lot of trauma and indigent patients, but it’s also adjacent to one of the wealthiest suburbs of Detroit… it’s a point they like to highlight about the program.  Also, a ton of perks – it’s a very well-off hospital system, fanciest hospital (and hottest nurses and residents) I’ve been in yet.  Also, cushiest program I’ve seen yet.  Problem is the academic opportunities may be weak… some really good potential mentors there, but not sure it’s good enough for what I need to get into a fellowship after residency.  Oh yeah, during my interview with the program director, we talked about how American beer sucks, how cool Scotland is, and how some stupid SUV driver almost killed him on his motorcycle once.  =)

 

I’ll say, for both of these places, I got a great vibe from the residents.  A bunch of the Sinai-Grace residents were meeting with students at a bar tonight – actually bummed I couldn’t go because they were TOO funny.  Unlike all of the other programs I’ve been at so far, I felt the most at home at these programs… Kind of hard to go on a gut feeling, but it’s a palpable difference…  Highland felt pretty good too.

 

Here’s something interesting.  So I was in one of my interviews at Sinai-Grace… I happened to glance down towards the desk and I saw scribbled at the bottom of a face sheet for my application packet, “top candidate.”  I S*** YOU NOT!  I about fell out of the chair… err… I was pretty distracted the last 10 minutes of the interview… not exactly comfortable with being thought of in high esteem…  Sinai-Grace doesn’t have the rep yet, but it’s a solid, county-type program… pretty surprised.

 

Something I can’t figure out is that there’s been a lot of bad-mouthing of Detroit Receiving this week.  Some of it makes sense, but I can’t believe that the program has slipped as much as some people seem to say… have to ask some people about that…

 

Side note, also got rejections from UPenn and UCSF-Fresno today.  Not surprised about the first… the second is a bit of a relief that I don’t have to make a decision about Fresno.

 

 

November 28, 2004

 

Europe:

Yesterday, I think I spent 1-2 hours working on one of my independent study papers and like 4-6 hours looking up tours in Europe.  =)  There was an over-priced Contiki one in Spain… I think it covered the typical stops like Madrid and Barcelona, but a good quarter of the trip (3.5 days) is just blocked out for IBIZA… heehee.  Those days on the itinerary don’t even have descriptions of activities – none needed!  =)  Too bad it doesn’t fit my dates, it would have been pretty fun…  There are a lot of tempting bike tours in France and Spain that I’m looking at… hard to decide what to do… wish I had a biking-buddy to do some self-guided trips… anyone interested in meeting me in Europe?

 

Sunday Reflection:

So, today I’m headed to church for the first time in… months?  Good grief.  That last trip a couple weeks ago doesn’t count because it was a goofy service.  So, my thought upon waking this AM is this:  I haven’t been praying about residency at all.  No problem praying for other people, but not really actively inviting God into my residency application process.  Certainly, it’s not like last time, when I was on my knees (literally) every night from the time I interviewed in Toledo for med school to when I got in (believe it or not).  For whatever reason, I think I have a general sense of resignation… apathy?… fatalism?… or… trust?  Unlike medical school, when it was totally unknown whether or not I’d even get in, this time, from the onset, I knew 1) CA would be next to impossible, 2) I’d get into a good program somewhere, and 3) the match is unpredictable anyways.  So far, I’ve had some pleasant surprises (eg George Washington interview), and been disheartened at my zero CA interviews invitations (besides those courtesy ones at USC and Highland), but nothing truly unexpected…  But, still, not totally sure why I don’t feel like praying about it.  Am I too relaxed (is that possible?)?  Low expectations?  Unpleasant result the last time I tried intervening/participating with prayer?   I dunno.  I think I should pray about it – even though there’s not much at stake, not even that much stress, it is, after all, the major time and thought-consuming event in my life right now… oh… well… besides planning for Europe and trying to meet single, age-appropriate girls at open-gym volleyball…  =)  hey!  you’d be surprised how difficult it is to meet those two conditions… adding in Christian as a criteria makes it next to impossible… =)

 

 

November 26, 2004

 

Thanksgiving:

Went to Cleveland to spend it with my sister-in-law’s family.  My bro + sis-in-law flew out to spend the weekend there.  Her family is pretty entertaining.  Actually had a good argument with my brother about research methodology (stemming from his skepticism of statistical methods used in health care policy decision-making).  I was close to holding my own… just need to think a little quicker… good brain exercise that I usually don’t get.  It was nice to spend thanksgiving with family – first time since I’ve been in Ohio, actually.  Yeah, it was nice.  Lots of wine, too.  =)

 

Also got to hang out with MT for a couple hours… other than coincidentally having the same interview at St. V’s, I hadn’t seen her since I visited Cleveland this past summer.

 

Lazy and Cold:

I’m supposed to be writing two short papers for independent study.  I’m soooo lazy.  All I want to do it sleep (slept 10 hours + 1 hour nap) and lounge around watching TV.  I think I’m really burnt out from studying for Step 2.  Since Step 2 one week ago, I’ve watched Saved!, Starsky & Hutch, Mean Girls, Kill Bill vol. 2, The Alamo, Desperado, and Black Hawk Down… still need to catch up on Shrek 2 and Harold + Kumar Go to White Castle.

 

Also first snowfall was two nights ago.  It’s getting cold.  Too lazy to go out shopping… but, while I’m up there for interviews, I’m going to stop at the mall in Detroit next week to drop by Banana and DSW…  If it weren’t for volleyball tonight, I’d be in my PJs all day.

 

I have had some productive spurts in my general slothfulness.  I cleaned my apartment and put up these insulating clear plastic sheets over my windows… I dunno if they really work, but it’s sooo cold, I try it…

 

CA Hates Me:

Nobody loves me, everybody hates me.  UC Davis rejected me this week.  Only got UCSF-Fresno, Loma Linda, and Harbor-UCLA wait-lists left.  I’ve been considering not ranking USC/LA County high for some complicated reasons, too.  Very sad… I kind of knew I’d have close to no shot at getting back to CA, but it’s still sad.

 

 

November 23, 2004

 

Motezuma Visits Toledo:

I interviewed at St. Vincent’s in Toledo today.  Kind of hard to stay focused only because I knew half of residents and faculty and spent almost all my Toledo rotations at the hospital… nice to just hang out with familiar faces though.  Had one interview with a senior resident I knew – we just chatted for 20 minutes.  2 others with faculty after that.  I was in the second one… it was a bit different from previous interviews in that the doc was plugging the program to me… I really didn’t have any questions… but somewhere in the middle of the interview my stomach started feeling weird… started getting the urge to defecate… then, the doc was trying to dig and figure out how interested I really was in the program… right as he was asking me a question, (un)luckily I totally had to go, I said, “This is really embarrassing.  I’m sorry, I really have to go to the restroom,” practically jumped out of the chair and tried to run to the restroom… I had to pause b/c I had a crazy vaso-vagal response and was close to passing out… but I made it to the restroom and had some bad diarrhea…  I don’t know if it was some bad milk or the combination of milk and the OJ I had during the program presentation… very sad.  VERY sad.  Oh well.  At least I didn’t crap in my pants.  And, makes for a good story to be passed on for generations at St. Vincent’s… “Don’t be nervous about the interview… this one time, we had this guy…”  =)

 

 

November 22, 2004

 

“[Nirgal] ‘You can’t choose your childhood, it’s just what happens to you. But after that you choose. I chose Sabishii [University]. And that’s really what made me.’

‘Maybe,’ Art said, rubbing his jaw. ‘But childhood isn’t just those years. It’s also the opinions you form about them afterward. That’s why our childhoods are so long.’”

-- A neat little exchange in Green Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson

 

Detroit Receiving Hospital Interview:

It’s a GREAT program.  One of the first EM programs in the country.  The docs here wrote one of the standard texts of Emergency Medicine.  I was really impressed today.  The interview seemed to go well enough… had four this AM… fumbled a little on a couple questions, but otherwise seemed positive enough… hard to read EM docs… they’re usually pretty laid-back and upbeat.

 

Positives:  Inner-city indigent population, great trauma experience, ridiculously high level of attending coverage for a inner-city ED (up to 5!!!!), solid peds, some really good off-service rotations (PICU, MICU), good ancillary support, remodeling ED, faculty strong teachers, strong academics and tons of research opps, EM department well-respected, on the med school campus, national rep, 3-year program, lots of little perks (books, conferences, academic memberships)

Negatives:  BUSY, tough residency, not as much exposure to tertiary/quaternary-care level patients, some off-service rotations so-so (Surg), in the ghettO

 

Man, I really really liked it.  I might rank it higher than USC/LA County… it’s shorter (so I only get my a**-kicked for 3 years instead of 4)… one less move (need to do a separate intern year at USC)… better work/learning environment and a tad easier than USC…

 

Am I a wimp?... or just getting old?:

I’m really feeling like dropping Jacobi.  Mainly because it adds an extra move (need a separate intern year like at USC), and I’m a little intimidated by NYC… don’t think I’d really like actually living in the Bronx for 3 whole years… should be fun, but I dunno… kind of stressful living in NYC too… aie… So am I a wimp?  am I getting old?  I scheduled it very late, so I still have a lot of time to think it over…

 

 

November 20, 2004

 

Ohio State 37 – Michigan 21:

PHENOMENAL!!!!!  It was incredible!  Hard to describe, but it was, by far, the funnest, loudest, and most intense sports event I’ve been to…  ah… makes me want to go to USC, Harbor-UCLA, UMD, OSU, or Highland (can bug my cousin at Cal) just for the college sports… =)

 

Interviews:

In = Cook County.  Out = Saginaw, probably Jacobi

 

 

November 18, 2004

 

Day of Pain:

Just got out of Step 2.  god that was an awful 8 hours of staring at a computer screen.  Well, the good thing, is that after all this time in medical school, you kind of develop a sort of apathy towards the whole thing… at the same time I am a little pissed about getting my vitamins mixed up and missing an easy one (murphy’s law – know all the answer choices except the correct one).  BLAH!  Also bummed that I was one of the last ones to finish.  Well, going to eat steak and drink some EtOH.  Cleaning, research, and v-ball tomorrow.  Ohio State-Michigan on Sat.

 

 

November 17, 2004

 

Rejection #5:

Stanford.  4/4 in CA.

 

Interview #17:

George Washington.  =)  This one makes me happy.  =)

 

Pre-Boards Routine:

1)       Listened to U2’s new album How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb on u2.com

-- I think if we consider the theme of the last album, “social justice and love are important,” this album is something like, “hey. HEY. HEY! HEY LISTEN! SOCIAL JUSTICE AND LOVE ARE IMPORTANT!”

-- I think I miss Bono’s lyrics from JoshuaTree-ActungBaby-Zooropa… used to paint really neat, sometimes cryptic, word pictures.  The lyrics on this album aren’t very sophisticated.

-- The neatest thing about this album is that they do some retro-stuff, some guitar riffs in ‘tribute’ to bands like Echo and Bunnymen, and lyrical cadences reminiscent of the War-Boy album styles

2)  Watched Saved!, with Mandy Moore

-- Actually, a decent teen-flick.  Good, standard coming-of-age issues.  The spoof of contemporary Christian culture is pretty ridiculous at times, but enough truth in it to be pretty amusing/disturbing.

3)  Watching Lost on TV right now, and probably going to watch Starsky & Hutch after…

 

Wish me luck tomorrow…

 

 

November 16, 2004

 

Rejection #4:

UC Irvine.  That’s 3/3 in CA.  Sucks to Orange County.  I don’t like it there anyways.

 

Futile:

This studying thing is entirely futile at this point.  I’m unmotivated.  I’ve run out of Kaplan questions to do.  Even if I had more questions (I can redo all the ones I got wrong actually), I’m at a point where I don’t even have the patience for such a thing.  So… since I’m totally bored I think I’m just going to blog some more.

 

The OC:

As hot as she is, I’ve decided that I can’t date Marisa.  She is just too CRAZY in the head.  Always yelling and getting upset.  Why can’t she just chill out for one or two episodes?  I mean, even teen drama characters need to mellow out a little.  And, then, who falls for the open shirt pool-boy thing, anyways?  Kind of greasy, yeah?  I don’t think it’s that hot all the time in orange county…

 

As an unrelated thought, after recent people watching at volleyball and Panera, I’ve recently thought that dating a blond would be an interesting change.

 

Also, I’ve realized that I need to hang out with DC more often.  Last time I heard of anyone liking me purely by physical attractiveness was when I was hanging out with her and her friends.  That was one great visit.

 

BBC World News:

I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned that I’m a total sucker for the intro – it’s a kind of artistic representation of the big bang with the earth popping up on the screen, orbited by ‘debris’ that is the major headline… all that backed with a techno-type track… heehee.  The graphics during the election were even better.  They had the US flag (instead of the universe) EXPLODING with all the stars heading right at you.  That’s entertaining stuff.

 

Step 2:

So my boards are Thursday.  I have to be at the test center between 630-700am.  That means I have to wake up at 600am at the earliest.  This is going to be brutal.  Since I’ve been just going to the gross anatomy lab at my own leisure, I haven’t been able to wake myself up earlier than 730am…

 

Europe:

Ireland, England, France, and Spain.  I’m starting to look at possible tour groups to join for a week somewhere – would really like to do a cycle tour for part of my trip... just a great way to see the countryside.  Trying to get SD to meet me there so we can crash at his cousin’s place in London and visit his sister in Madrid.  Need to work out Ireland travel plans with JI.  The medical school elective in Scotland doesn’t look like it’ll work out – I’ve have been gone from Toledo so much of this year that I have some unfortunate requirements that won’t allow me the time to spend two whole months in Europe.  That kind of sucks.  Well, hopefully, I’ll end up at a residency program that has good overseas electives… I know one I’m going to interview at has options for Italy and South Africa…

 

Interview Trail:

I hit the trail pretty hard starting next week.  It’s going to be a crazy four weeks until I head home for winter break.  I get to visit GL and LY in DC/Baltimore, though.  That’ll be good fun.  So, I scheduled it so all my regional programs would go first, then I take on the heavy-hitters on the East Coast + Cincinnati.  No word from Chicago yet – I think I’m effectively on a wait list for the programs there.

Next week – Detroit Receiving, St. Vincent’s

Week of 11/29 – Sinai-Grace, St. John’s, Saginaw, Kalamazoo

Week of 12/6 – Henry Ford, Yale, Hahnemann

Week of 12/13 – Johns Hopkins, Jefferson

Week of 12/20 – Cincinnati

January – Jacobi

 

 

November 15, 2004

 

Official Wait List #1:

Oregon Health Sciences University.  Doggonnit!  UGG!!!!  All that schmoozing for the stupid wait list!!!!  What else do they want?  Do I have to lie prostrate on the floor and weep, rending my clothes about how desperately I want back in to the West Coast???

 

That’s it – after being dumped so quickly by UCLA and UCSD, I’m REALLY PISSED.  My boards studying is futile anyways, I just sent out a couple of emails to some CA programs saying why I’m interested in their programs…  I’m laying it out on the line.  I’m either going to sell myself or make me so frickin’ annoying that they have to reject me just to stop me from harassing them.

 

Anyways.  I’m actually probably on an unofficial wait list for a lot of programs since many have sent of invites for weeks now – including, UI Chicago, UCSF-Fresno, U Maryland, Bellevue/NYU, Stanford, U Penn, and Temple…  I think I need to harass some of those programs too.

 

 

November 12, 2004

 

Rejection #3:

UCLA-Olive View.  Punted by another CA program in their first batch.  That’s 2/2.  I’m actually kind of stunned – how am I getting Jacobi and Johns Hopkins, but nothing in CA?  Plus, after being on such a roll recently, it was kind of weird getting a rejection – not that I really wasn’t expecting anything.  What a bummer.  Not that many programs left that I’d really really be interested in actually – UC Davis, Harbor-UCLA… those would be the two major ones left.  Certainly should hear something from more programs next week.

 

Interviews #14-16:

Henry Ford (Detroit), Jacobi (Bronx), Johns Hopkins

 

Well, that’s it – I’m at my limit.  If I get any more interview offers, I’m going to start dropping programs.  Right now I’ve got a great mix of reaches, back-ups, and mid-range programs… perhaps skewed a bit on the reachy-side, but I should be good to go for the match.

 

I tell ya’ – trying to arrange my interviews, shopping online, and neurotically checking my email is a lot more interesting than studying… blah!  I’m really dragging with less than a week to go until my boards… only got in a few hours of studying + 100 practice questions yesterday… but, I did get to cook and watch The OC and North Shore… =)

 

Important Deaths:

Arafat, Iris Chang (author Rape of Nanking)

 

I’m sure hundreds of millions of people would like Sharon to go too… which actually might help things a lot.

 

 

November 10, 2004

 

“There’s no need for you to say you’re sorry,

Good-bye I’m going home.

I don’t care no more, so don’t you worry.

Good-bye I’m going home.

I hate the way that even though you know you’re wrong,… you say you’re right.

I hate the books you read and all your friends…

Your music’s shite, it keeps me up all night, up all night.”

-- Oasis

 

Aie!  Dios Mio!:

This is embarrassing… I’m actually accumulating too many interviews.  Just got Henry Ford (Detroit) and Jacobi (Bronx, NY) today… err…  I honestly didn’t think I’d have this problem – I mean, Cincy, Yale, and Jacobi are way out of my league… I mean, come on – if my own frickin’ alma mater dumps me with the first cut, why does one of the top programs in NYC want to interview me?  Aie… not sure if I’m going to keep Jacobi – dunno if it’s worth the time+money to go for high-reach program… but it is NYC… need to confer with some contacts about the pluses/minuses.

 

But, needless to say, I’m really happy with my interview lot.  I’ve got a lot of really great programs in my queue.

 

 

November 8, 2004 (later)

 

Interview #13:

Just got Hahnemann in Philadelphia!!!!  Whoohoo!

 

 

November 8, 2004

 

Rejection #2:

UC San Diego.  Doh!  No love from my alma mater… maybe they’re just bitter that I haven’t given them any money as an alum.  =)

 

Interview #12:

University of Cincinnati

 

WOW!  Kind of surprised by this one.  It’s a really high-powered program… universally considered one of the top programs in the country.  I wasn’t even going to try applying there until after ACEP – maybe my schmoozing paid off.  =)  Gives me a little relief that my application isn’t just in a holding pattern at a lot of programs – I’ve been checking my email, almost literally on the hour… this is nerve-racking…  I expect to hear from Cook County this week or next… hopefully everywhere else too – Henry Ford (Detroit), Chicago, Boston, Philly, CA… NYC and Boston were always long shots… getting a little antsy about CA… losing hope for Oregon, Maryland, and DC – they’ve sent out invites for weeks now and I haven’t heard anything… but, Chicago and Philly would make me happy – there are some great programs in those cities…  I’ve got room for a handful more interviews before I need to start canceling…

 

Tally:

36 applications (way too many)

2 courtesy interviews (at my elective rotations in Oakland and LA)

10 interviews

2 rejections

 

Last Election Thought:

Here’s something to chew on.  I contend that, as a Christian, your fundamental theological beliefs determine your political allegiance.  If you believe in free will-based salvation instead of a predestination/sovereignty-based salvation, I will argue that you are Republican by nature, and vice versa.  Each political party carries basic assumptions about human nature that drive their political beliefs.  Republicans have an idealistic construction of human nature – that individual freedom is the highest good and removing impediments to that freedom is one of the primary functions of government.  Very free will.  In contrast, Democrats have a much more negative construction of human nature – that man is weak, fallible and often unable to overcome a multitude of negative, external factors – government, therefore, ought to act benevolently and proactively in its constituency’s best interest.  Very paternalistic.  To support my argument empirically, I think you would find that areas with strong white Protestant work ethic morality tended to vote Republican.  Ah, this idea has a number of flaws, but QED, anyways.  =)

 

 

November 6, 2004

 

“So I start a revolution from my bed

‘Cause you said the brains I had weren’t in my head”

-- Oasis

 

Obnoxious comment of the day (on public forum Student Doctor Network):

“i'll be meeting with my advisor early next week to figure out which programs to decline. he wants me to cut about 10 at this point, so hopefully those interviews can be used by someone else out there.”

 

Gee thanks… ‘cause the rest of us are so awful that we could really really use the favor…

 

I wonder if he realizes that he sounds like an a**hole…  There’s another loser on this forum, he applied across the board and has TWENTY-SIX interviews – no reason at all for which programs he applied to.  To give you more of an idea what an idiot this dude is, people aim for around 10 interviews and max out around 16.  He’s got more interviews than programs applied to for most people.  And, apparently, he’s taking his sweet time hording them… god I want to flame his a** so bad.

 

Reminds me why I never could stand hanging around pre-meds much…  come to think of it, I can’t think which is worse – putting up with pre-med talk or all that retarded pro-smoking rhetoric…

 

 

November 5, 2004

 

Volleyball:

Ah… that was great…pretty ugly, and I felt like I was falling all the time, but good fun…

 

Dropping like Flies:

Another buddy bit the dust.  DC is married.  KW will be soon.  SC just got engaged.

 

Ohio State Interview:

It was okay.  Had interviews straight away in the morning, so it took one-two to warm up…  hard to imagine, but I think I ramble a lot.  Need to be more concise.  Still have the tendency to qualify myself a lot too…  Well.  Good practice, anyways.

 

Pros:  Very good peds training, good off-service rotations, lots of procedures, definitely can get on a fellowship/academic track, for whatever reason the department has a good amount of political clout at the university, university-affiliated, Columbus is a decent place to live

Cons:  Tertiary care hospital pts not exactly what I imagined working with, trauma experience adequate but not impressive

 

Otherwise, it’s been a really dry week.  I thought I’d hear from programs, but only got that one rejection and that’s it… makes me a bit nervous…

 

Fun Party Fact:

For grossly overweight persons (even beyond the OH-standard) who couldn’t fit into a CT or violated the weight limit (usually around 400 lbs), they used to send them to the horse CT at the Columbus Zoo.  Now, for liability reasons, the zoo won’t let hospitals use their horse CT for humans anymore.

 

 

November 2, 2004

 

Election:

Too distracting… can’t study… have to see how Ohio pans out… 

 

Back-country:

Well, I guess that does it.  I’m now living in the most ignorant, homophobic state in the union.  Not only did the statewide issue (#1) amending the state constitution to basically allow legalized bigotry pass, but locally, looks like the smoking ban is going to be amended (#4 ie have ridiculous loopholes) allowing people to commit suicide, take down other people with them, and perpetuate the #1 preventable cause of cancer, heart attack, stroke, death, and disability in the country.  Disgusting.

 

Rejection #1:

Boston Medical Center – Durnit. I think I really would have liked that program.

 

 

November 1, 2004

 

Toledo = Big Time Stuff:

Kerry is dropping by at 1130pm for his last campaign stop after being here last week.  Cheney was here this AM.  Mrs. Edwards was here yesterday.

 

Got to vote tomorrow to protect the stupid.  Some Toledo-ites want to revoke the smoking ban and start killing themselves and other people in public places again.  Also some poorly defined issue in Ohio defining heterosexual marriage – read it and it sounds like a stupid way to create legal bigotry.

 

Nervous:

I’m getting a bit neurotic about checking my email every hour or so to see if I’ve gotten any new interview invitations.  Dean’s Letters went out today – so most programs will be sending out invites in bunches this month… Kind of nervous about getting invites at non-regional programs (getting Yale and Jefferson this early is not the norm)… I’d be happy enough in Detroit, but I’m pretty satisfied with my Midwest experience.  Plus, it’s always nice to be wanted.  =)  Also, anxious to get cracking on plane tics and rental cars – all my travel plans during Dec-Jan are on hold until I figure out where I have to go and when.

 

Current Interview List (11):

Highland (done), USC/LA County (done), Ohio State (this week), Detroit Receiving/Wayne State, St. Vincent’s, Sinai-Grace/Wayne State, St. John’s (Detroit), Saginaw, Kalamazoo, Yale, Jefferson (Philadelphia)

 

European Ambitions:

Looks like the Scotland thing will be down the toilet.  Works out that I will likely have 2 weeks of requirements in Toledo to finish up by the end of May.  Since I’ll be in San Diego Jan-Feb and have Neurology scheduled in March, that only leaves me 2 months minus those 2 weeks – too little time to do both a month in Scotland AND travel around.  I’ll know fer sure Tuesday after I talk with one a faculty person about this, but things are not looking good for the home team.  Can’t think of any way around this unless San Diego rejects my elective applications.  Oh well.  At worst, it means I extend my European travel plans another week or two.

 

I think it’s time to check my email again……….

 

 

October 31, 2004

 

Blah:

Now I remember why the first two years of med school sucked so much.  All I do all day is sit around with my nose in a book or staring at my laptop.  I find myself getting pretty dull in the head.  2½ more weeks of this… ugg.  My “break” this week is heading to Columbus Weds-Thurs for my Ohio State interview.  Yay.

 

On the other hand, I’ve been sleeping 8-10 hours a day.  That’s been a nice change of pace.