Thursday, September 23, 2004

What I have learned:
Clothes individually are light
But Clothes all packed in nice and tight in a large suitcase are really heavy...but less than 100 pounds so it will still be able to get onto the airplane - for a nominal fee of $25 or $50 (depending on the official number).

Time to find a neighbor with a scale to verify the weight. The smaller bag is just as heavy since all the shoes and other necessities that would be too expensive to rebuy in portland. It's hard to pack for 2 months.
~me~ at 5:46 PM

Okay, so Dr. Streiffer was right. Less than 24 hours after submitting my application that lacks my 3 letters of rec at this moment, I now have 2 offers to interview. It worries me that it was so fast. I mean, what is the quality of these programs that will interview so quickly. And I'm trying to pack! Aaaaah! It's all happening so fast! The 2 offers are in california. One of them is the one with weak peds inpatient. Don't know why that should bother me since their clinic is strong but I don't want a crappy experience either. Let the chaos begin!
~me~ at 11:30 AM

Wednesday, September 22, 2004

Okay, the hawaii program is a little bit eager. I submitted my application this morning and by this afternoon they already emailed me to let me know that they didn't get my letters of recommendation yet. I guess I need to go by the OB/GYN dept to make sure that Dr. Dola will submit my letter soon. Dr. Streiffer will write his soon and get it in fast...I hope. Anyway, they certainly don't waste time on these things.

In other news, I went shopping today and bought some new clothes. I went for 1 item and left with 4. Well, I never did spend that birthday money so we'll call it a belated birthday gift. Oh and I think my mail forwarding is on since there's a orange slip in my box that says it's vacant. That's all for now. Time to balance ye olde checkbooke.
~me~ at 3:57 PM

Monday, September 20, 2004

Yippeeee! I'm Free!!!! Okay, so I'm free from studying for the test but now I can suffer the 3 week anxiety of not knowing my scores. And worse yet, the possibility that if it's a crappy score (which I hope isn't the case), the residency programs will have the results before I will. Yikes! I went kind of fast and finished each section with 10 or so minutes to spare. But if I were to go back, I would only change answers and that is a test no no. I figure, if I knew it, I knew it and I then doubled and triple checked myself before moving on. If I just didn't know (which unfortunately was the case a few times) I made a guess based on what it could be. And if it was one of those many that I narrowed down to two choices, I made my best guess and hoped I was right. Here's my issue, theoretically, there is a certain set of steps to pass to make a diagnosis. In the real world, you skip some of those earlier steps because you would end up doing the later tests anyway. My kaplan qbank experience showed me that half the time, they went the long route, and the other half, they went the short route. Ugh. Now I'm worried. Oh well. time for shopping!
~me~ at 2:30 PM