Wednesday, July 8, 2009

And so it begins

So here I am. Today is the day it begins. My blog to document my years as I trek through med school commences here (with me sweating in the summer heat half-naked in my apartment).

All my life I’ve tossed around the idea and my fate was finally sealed May 15, 2009.

6 am-ish, an email from school #1: “Congratulations”.

9 am-ish came another from #2.

And finally one more from #3 at my work desk by noon.


Holy jebus. My entire world was spinning as I finally received confirmation of what I’d been dreaming about since sitting in my first year calculus class photoshopping photos of my professor’s head onto Britney Spears’s pre-head-shaving body.

Fast forward a month and a half. School’s been chosen and congratulatory parties have subsided. Just under 2 months before the dawn of school. I’ll be busy with work for another 5 weeks and doing a lot of life admin work in between (probably also while sweating in the summer heat again, half-naked). I fully intend on enjoying summer before I commit to many, many years of grueling work. My last chance to enjoy random weeknight shindigs, sleeping in on days that end with -y, and enjoying weekend trips to the island. Seems like this summer is analogous to an extended bachelor party before a looooong marriage to med school. And now I’ve found a spot to mark all the ups and downs of it.