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Feb. 23rd, 2008 03:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
commotiocordisSo there needs to be a major update in here somewhere for the past few days (really short one: no school Thursday or Friday because of the ice, mock trial pushed to Tuesday, walked almost all the way to the gym through the ice/snow on Thursday to prove a point, made a really awesome omelet this morning, etc.) but for now I'm going to settle with talking about how today is going to go.
Short answer? I've got no idea.
There's this Saturday Scholars medical program (which shall now be tagged under "minimed" since I've done all of those and feel like recycling) that I found out I got accepted to all of Friday afternoon, which means I'm downtown at the medical school all morning. Should be fun, I'm hoping, and there are a lot of cool things that go along with it (at some point, we're getting bussed down to a different med school to stay overnight and shadow doctors and such, and one or more of the Saturdays takes place in the cadaver lab [!!]). I know very little about it, however, as it was always presented to me in just about as many words as I've just summarized it--this is the thing I had to write the "favorite booth" essay from the health careers fair to get into, idk if I mentioned that when I went to the latter.
On a side note of that. I don't know how I feel about this cadaver lab bit. I'm really interested in how I'll react to it. I've seen real surgeries and autopsies and tons of like stuff in educational videos, and I've seen little procedures on live people in person, and I've dissected various animals and such, but it's different when there's a reallive person being dissected. I'm positive that I won't have a problem with it, but a good large chunk of why I'm looking forward to it is because I want to quasi-objectively check out how I respond.
But next comes my random scholarship interview. Which is a good 3, 3.5 hours drive away. And at 4:30. Meaning I've got to leave from the one and go pretty much straight to the other. Here's the thing, though. It's not enough time to look around the place. I'm going to get there right before I've got to walk into the office for the interview and since it's a Saturday evening, everything will be closed by the time I'm done and we'll have to leave rightquickedy in order to get home at a reasonable hour. And gas just hit $3 a gallon. (Okay, 2.98, but still.) Edit: And did I mention, I'm one of some 260 interviewers for 40 scholarships. Not the worst odds, especially when you consider my test scores and such, but not the best, either. The school's people offered the option of conducting the interview over phone if we have to due to weather concerns (as it's still icy as all getout around here and presumably in other parts of the state as well) as a last resort. ("If possible, we will call you at or about your assigned interview time and allow you to conduct your interview with our panel via telephone. If we do not contact you by phone at that time, we will contact you early during the week of February 25 regarding options.") I'm thinking about taking them up on this. It's probably going to hurt me in terms of getting the scholarship, though, due to the whole "getting to know you" part that will be missing over the phone. But I really don't want to have to drive 7 hours for a 20 minute interview when I'm going to have to drive out some other time to check out the campus anyway. Add to that the fact that there's car concern--the one we were going to take has been acting up again and the van would cost us $90 billion in gasoline money because it's. . . a van--and I'm definitely presenting the option to the parents. I'd almost rather the school chose to reschedule the interview than do it over the phone, because that'd give me a chance to go down there on a day when I had time to look around and remove the impersonality issues (and the fact that PHONES = HAET) of doing it telephonically.
Either way, I've got to take a shower and get to bed, as I've got to be at my school to caravan down to the med school at 8 in the morning (OMG, only 5 hours) and I got very little sleep this afternoon due to constant interruptage (which seems to be happening a lot lately--no, I do not want to talk to the person from the National Guard, thanks, now stop waking me up!).
Short answer? I've got no idea.
There's this Saturday Scholars medical program (which shall now be tagged under "minimed" since I've done all of those and feel like recycling) that I found out I got accepted to all of Friday afternoon, which means I'm downtown at the medical school all morning. Should be fun, I'm hoping, and there are a lot of cool things that go along with it (at some point, we're getting bussed down to a different med school to stay overnight and shadow doctors and such, and one or more of the Saturdays takes place in the cadaver lab [!!]). I know very little about it, however, as it was always presented to me in just about as many words as I've just summarized it--this is the thing I had to write the "favorite booth" essay from the health careers fair to get into, idk if I mentioned that when I went to the latter.
On a side note of that. I don't know how I feel about this cadaver lab bit. I'm really interested in how I'll react to it. I've seen real surgeries and autopsies and tons of like stuff in educational videos, and I've seen little procedures on live people in person, and I've dissected various animals and such, but it's different when there's a real
But next comes my random scholarship interview. Which is a good 3, 3.5 hours drive away. And at 4:30. Meaning I've got to leave from the one and go pretty much straight to the other. Here's the thing, though. It's not enough time to look around the place. I'm going to get there right before I've got to walk into the office for the interview and since it's a Saturday evening, everything will be closed by the time I'm done and we'll have to leave rightquickedy in order to get home at a reasonable hour. And gas just hit $3 a gallon. (Okay, 2.98, but still.) Edit: And did I mention, I'm one of some 260 interviewers for 40 scholarships. Not the worst odds, especially when you consider my test scores and such, but not the best, either. The school's people offered the option of conducting the interview over phone if we have to due to weather concerns (as it's still icy as all getout around here and presumably in other parts of the state as well) as a last resort. ("If possible, we will call you at or about your assigned interview time and allow you to conduct your interview with our panel via telephone. If we do not contact you by phone at that time, we will contact you early during the week of February 25 regarding options.") I'm thinking about taking them up on this. It's probably going to hurt me in terms of getting the scholarship, though, due to the whole "getting to know you" part that will be missing over the phone. But I really don't want to have to drive 7 hours for a 20 minute interview when I'm going to have to drive out some other time to check out the campus anyway. Add to that the fact that there's car concern--the one we were going to take has been acting up again and the van would cost us $90 billion in gasoline money because it's. . . a van--and I'm definitely presenting the option to the parents. I'd almost rather the school chose to reschedule the interview than do it over the phone, because that'd give me a chance to go down there on a day when I had time to look around and remove the impersonality issues (and the fact that PHONES = HAET) of doing it telephonically.
Either way, I've got to take a shower and get to bed, as I've got to be at my school to caravan down to the med school at 8 in the morning (OMG, only 5 hours) and I got very little sleep this afternoon due to constant interruptage (which seems to be happening a lot lately--no, I do not want to talk to the person from the National Guard, thanks, now stop waking me up!).
