Digging my car ...

The last 2 weeks had been fun. I had to dig my car out of half a foot snow the first week then a week later a foot and half of snow. What a workout. Each time took me at least 45 min to a hour of arm strength. The second time I lost my parking spot to the snow since my spot is next the handicap spot and is at a corner. It had the space for the apartment to pile the snow. What a crazy 2 winter storms.

The 1st snow dig out.

ROL #2

It's official. It's in. Here's my ranking list.

1. Baystate
2. Maine Med
3. Cleveland Clinic
4. VCU/MCV
5. UTSW
6. SLU
7. Thomas Jefferson
8. Univ of Washington
9. Case Western/ MetroHealth
10. St Luke's Roosevelt
11. Univ of Washington (Adv)
12. Baystate (adv)
13. UMKC
14. Henry Ford
15. Univ of Mississippi
16. Mizzou
17. Mizzou (adv)

Senoritis

It's the home stretch of the end of my med school training. Graduation is 5/15 and my international elective is coming up. I have a hard time motivating myself to get to work. Also, once I get to the hospital, I keeping wanting the day to be over as soon as possible. I'm on Peds EM this month at St Joseph's. It's actually a pretty good rotation and I am glad that I don't have to go in every day. I have a grand total of 15 12hr shifts. During my shifts I was able to get the required reading done for my Uganda rotation and able to chat with other 3rd and 4th years that are rotating at the same time. For most of my shifts, the 4th years take a long lunch breaks about 1.5 - 2 hr long. haha. Anything to shorten our workload.

What a difference between 3rd and 4th year. As a 3rd year, we are doing everything we can to get the good eval and possible letter. We needed to impress our attending and want to see everything that comes in. Now as a 4th, we know what we needed to do to just get by. What an amazing difference.

I have more time to go over and over my ranking list and the order of all the programs.

ROL #1

I have Maine Med, Baystate and Cleveland Clinic running around in my head. I can't decide how to order these 3. I love each of the three. Maine Med is smallest of the 3 and is in Portland, ME. It's gorgeous and has a very quaint feeling. The only thing holding me back is the small Asian population. Baystate is great, a medium size, great hours, resident friendly. Clinic is great too, the only thing is that it's big. It has great cases and great name.

The decision really is between a big well known program or a small regionally know place. Decisions, decisions.

As the next couple on my list would be VCU, UTSW, SLU and Thomas Jefferson. With them, it'll probably be based on location. They are about the same feeling for me.

I know that I'm definitely going to be disappointing my mom regarding UW ranking. It's going to be middle of the list because I'm not sure how well I'll fit into the rogram there. I love Seattle but just not sure about the program itself.

The rest will be based on location again with Mizzou at the end. I'm not the greatest fan of these because of location. Texas Tech is not on my list because I didn't have a good gut feeling about it and also, it sounds a little sketchy being that I feel like the residents learn from books.

Will see how it all turn out.