Yeah yeah yeah, I don't care about what books I need to be reading this month, or how much money I'll be making in 4 years. I'm just excited to be done with my rotations TODAY!

I also thought I would throw something more fun out there for everyone who has matched. How welcomed do you feel by the place you're going to. I am so excited to go to a new part of the country that has grass, trees, water and 4 seasons (in the southwest right now). And my program even sent me a school sweatshirt. I've been getting a few emails from residents and people I interviewed with giving me advice and offering any help they can provide. Anyone else with a similar experience? I hope so. Let's hear about it. The only post I've been enjoying is the one about 4th year making you lose your edge. Now, I'm planning to head home for the day and :sleep:

what program are you going to?

Yeah yeah yeah, I don't care about what books I need to be reading this month, or how much money I'll be making in 4 years. I'm just excited to be done with my rotations TODAY!

I also thought I would throw something more fun out there for everyone who has matched. How welcomed do you feel by the place you're going to. I am so excited to go to a new part of the country that has grass, trees, water and 4 seasons (in the southwest right now). And my program even sent me a school sweatshirt. I've been getting a few emails from residents and people I interviewed with giving me advice and offering any help they can provide. Anyone else with a similar experience? I hope so. Let's hear about it. The only post I've been enjoying is the one about 4th year making you lose your edge. Now, I'm planning to head home for the day and :sleep:


I think the minute I matched, SEVERE SENIORITIS struck me....I have been making excuses to NOT go to rotations....interns tell me to do stuff, and I'm like "whatever!!!" Just don't care anymore....

The way I look at it, this is THE LAST TIME THAT I CAN SLACK OFF FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE (literally)....apologies to those gunners (and you know who you are...actually screw the apology....I'm not aplogizing for anything), but I have NO INTENTION OF working hard, especially for FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now, I just kick back and relax....but I CAN'T WAIT FOR MY INTERNSHIP TO START SO I CAN KICKSTART MY BRAIN AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!! Have 1 more rotation left, and then I get married...do you REALLY think my "attention" is on that rotation.......especially considering it's freakin' URO-TRASH.....sorry, urology.....wedding planning and a bachelor party :rolleyes: :D ....hmmm....somehow urology doesn't seem that exciting.....

so, when do the bars close again..... :love: :laugh: :love:

however...I CAN'T WAIT TO START MY RESIDENCY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :love: :love: :love: I love it's location (Manhattan)....I love its teaching...I love its resident interactions...I love its fellowship placement....I love the way they treat their interns...I love the atmosphere....

No...not kissing butt, especially since they have NO idea who I am....JUST KICK A** excited to get out of med school and start my life (in more ways than 1....marriage and a job...sorry to be cheesy)

man I'm psyched!!! This week I got a chance to walk around my program's campus ( U Colorado), just a gorgeous Denver day, couldn't help but have a huge sh*t eating grin plastered all over my face....

Of course, I'll be much, much, much more excited once the offer for my (possible) future home goes through... :scared:

Colorado didn't nec. provide me w/ all the "extras"- there's probably just too damn many of us - but man were they prompt! I had my contract in my hot little hand the mon. after match as well as all other nec. docs (when I signed the CU Pharm. doctor signature card the gravity of it all really, really started to sink in!!!)

I'll take prompt over pretty much everything else- shows that your supporting staff is on the ball, a HUGE change from the keystone cops i have to deal with at my current school's IM office.... :mad:


.... and back to baseball and etoh.....

I'm glad to see others out there with as much senioritis as me. There are friends of mine who still aren't done. I have a poor friend of mine who's in the SICU this month! I just keep asking her why did you do this to yourself. She tried to switch, but it was too late to change her schedule. Normally, I'm a fairly regular attender of my rotations...last week I was doing radi-HOLIDAY (as it's known at my institution) and I was told to take the first week off to study...then the 2nd week I went in mon 9-11, tues 9-11, took wed. off and didn't bother telling anyone, and then went in thurs. 930-1030. I don't feel so inclined after writing that to say where I'm going because I don't want anyone to get the wrong idea about me...I'm not really a slacker, but like the other guy posted, I'm going to need intern year to kickstart my brain back into working again.

Congrats on getting married man. That would be too much for me to handle right now, I'm so excited for residency I can't imagine adding on top of that marrying the woman of my dreams. I'm hoping I can find her out where I'm going for residency (in the southern midwest)

Now my new question...I have 3 weeks until I move out from my current city to become a nomad catching up with friends around Texas. What do I do? I'm excited to be done, but I think 3 weeks of nothing to do is going to drive me insane. Any suggestions...besides EtOH. :laugh:

start my life (in more ways than 1....marriage and a job...sorry to be cheesy)


50% of marriages will fail.....I just had to say that...you're just too darn happy!!!! :D GL

start my life (in more ways than 1....marriage and a job...sorry to be cheesy)


50% of marriages will fail.....I just had to say that...you're just too darn happy!!!! :D GL


don't get too excited. residency is like working for peanuts. enjoy 4th year of med school while you can. it doesn't get much better than 4th year of med school.

I am SOOOO excited! :D I'm on my last (and very easy) rotation and I'm really enjoying being bored right now!!! (esp. cuz I know it won't last...)

Can't wait for vacation next month and then the move and then internship!!! :love:

I'll be done with med school next week (taking the last month off). Been doing ID, not exactly cush but what a great learning experience.

I'm definitely excited.... i don't even really like the city that i'll be in as much as my home city, and today i spent a ridiculously amount of money to get an apartment that is ridiculously small... but then i walked by the hospital where i'll be at, and it made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside, so i knew i was at the right place....

Yeah yeah yeah, I don't care about what books I need to be reading this month, or how much money I'll be making in 4 years. I'm just excited to be done with my rotations TODAY!

I also thought I would throw something more fun out there for everyone who has matched. How welcomed do you feel by the place you're going to. I am so excited to go to a new part of the country that has grass, trees, water and 4 seasons (in the southwest right now). And my program even sent me a school sweatshirt. I've been getting a few emails from residents and people I interviewed with giving me advice and offering any help they can provide. Anyone else with a similar experience? I hope so. Let's hear about it. The only post I've been enjoying is the one about 4th year making you lose your edge. Now, I'm planning to head home for the day and :sleep:

GOOD....now use this time to party like you have never before

don't get too excited. residency is like working for peanuts. enjoy 4th year of med school while you can. it doesn't get much better than 4th year of med school.

Working for peanuts is all very fine.

Peanuts is better than negative peanuts. I've never had a joRb for more than 3 months in my life so this whole steady employment thing is very exciting!

It was a Beatles reference.

Peanuts is better than negative peanuts. I've never had a joRb for more than 3 months in my life so this whole steady employment thing is very exciting!
I like the very subtle homestar reference mumpu. looks like your name is getting some play in the news these days.

Man, I have a week left until I move outta here!! Then it's a month and a half vacation visiting friends and fam before heading out to get started.

I'm starting to have dreams about my first day of residency. Today was my 2nd dream. In the 1st one I had I was in my continuity clinic for the first time and I spent waaaaay too long with my first patient trying to do everything that it was 4:45 by the time I was done and I was hoping my attending/PD wasn't going to kill me. Today in the 2nd one I was with all my fellow new interns and we were starting on peds (i'm med/peds) and we didn't know what to do so we just keep walking around the clinic and stuff.

What do you mean my name is getting some play in the news (and more importantly, why isn't the rest of me getting some play? :)).

If you mean the city in Zambia, my name actually has absolutely nothing to do with that. Its etiology is very convoluted.

I was simply referring to the mump(s) outbreak. I didn't realize that mumpu was also a city in zambia. unfortunately, the US education system doesn't ever really require us to learn geography. Good luck on getting some play of your own! :)

Not related to mumps either, like I said it's very convoluted. :)

Yeah, I just finished ID. They briefly touched on it but we didn't see any mumps. Our soup d'jour was rampant pan-resistant pseudomonas (colistin anyone?) because tool attendings insist on treating airway colonization in ICU patients.

Hell yeah I'm bumping this..... :laugh: :love:

Just wanted to see the reactions of those of us who were REALLY excited about starting internship when we left these posts in april versus how we feel now....

honestly....while I WAS excited....as time approaches, I am gettin more and more freaked, especially since it seems like I've forgotten eveything.... :scared: :D :( :scared: :eek:

Ditto on the freaking out sentiment. I hope I can retain some of the stuff I've learned the last four years. Not to mention freaking out about moving to a new city. The only tiny sliver of excitement I have left is to meet all the other new interns and residents...and that's it.



Hell yeah I'm bumping this..... :laugh: :love:

Just wanted to see the reactions of those of us who were REALLY excited about starting internship when we left these posts in april versus how we feel now....

honestly....while I WAS excited....as time approaches, I am gettin more and more freaked, especially since it seems like I've forgotten eveything.... :scared: :D :( :scared: :eek:

I like the very subtle homestar reference mumpu. looks like your name is getting some play in the news these days.

Man, I have a week left until I move outta here!! Then it's a month and a half vacation visiting friends and fam before heading out to get started.

I'm starting to have dreams about my first day of residency. Today was my 2nd dream. In the 1st one I had I was in my continuity clinic for the first time and I spent waaaaay too long with my first patient trying to do everything that it was 4:45 by the time I was done and I was hoping my attending/PD wasn't going to kill me. Today in the 2nd one I was with all my fellow new interns and we were starting on peds (i'm med/peds) and we didn't know what to do so we just keep walking around the clinic and stuff.

Welcome to the world of med-peds mega... get ready for the strange looks people will give you when you explain you are doing 2 residencies at the same time (What are you? Nuts?)... then watch the eyes glaze over when you try to explain how the rotation switches work back and forth between the two fields (I don't know how you can possibly do that and still remember everything!).

Now that I am nearly done with my first year it's getting a little easier. It really is surprising how much of the knowledge can be taken back and forth without much change. I mean, treating infections in kids is almost the same as in adults, except you dose the antibiotics based on weight rather than a preset dose. Good luck to ya.

I too had a very bad case of senioritis even before the match, but now that internship is approaching I'm having the nervousitis! My brain has been on cruise control and I haven't read anything in awhile so just hope that the powers that be are not expecting too much!

Well, I appreciate the bump. Since I've been on the move now for about 6 weeks, I haven't really checked the forum for a long time and was excited to see my thread still on page 1...it's the simple things in life that bring pleasure.

Well I'm all settled in my new apartment...minus any furniture at all. I assembled a chair yesterday. Sleeping on the floor isn't as comfortable as I remember when doing it as a kid.

But I went to pick up yet another life support book. The only downside to doing med/peds is that I have to be certified in NALS, PALS, and ACLS. Ridiculous. Apparently the NALS is a self study course so I will actually have to read something this week. Orientation starts next week. In picking up my book I got to meet a lot of the peds & med/peds doing peds right now. It's pretty exciting. But totally scary since I don't remember anything. Luckily my first month is clinic. Hallelujah! I only have 3 calls for the month and I can ease my way into my new life as a doctor.

Hey Y'all! I'm SOOOO pumped to start internship! :D

I know logically I should be really scared but I'm not yet (may have something to do with not knowing my schedule yet....so even if I start with ICU, I won't know until three days before).... :D

Best of luck to us all! :luck:

Hear hear! I am excited, full of anticipation, yet nervous, scared, self-doubting, about intern year. It's like a roller coaster of emotions! Orientation for me starts this friday. I am being kept in suspense about my schedule as well. . .not sure if that makes me more vs less nervous. In any case i'll prob be finding out in 2 days.