I had just woken up on a Friday, and I was sitting in my bed, watching TV. My grandmother calls me and I remember telling her that I was still so nervous because I hadn't heard back from the school and whatnot. She's calming me down, of course, and as she's doing so I get an e-mail that is titled "Medical College of Georgia Status Letter." Naturally, I'm horrified and the only thing going through my mind was "Oh ****..." So I open it and it doesn't say "Congratulations!" at the top. My heart is pounding, and then I see "it is my pleasure to offer you a position" and I immediately scream at the top of my lungs "I GOT IN! I GOT IN!" My grandmother hears this, says "Wait, what!? Oh my god..." and immediately starts bawling crying. I hop out of my bed and start running around the house screaming "I got in!" for a solid minute.
A few weeks later, I'm chilling at home and I get a phone call from an Augusta phone number. "Oh god, what is this?" So I answer it. It's the director of the MD/PhD program calling me to personally welcome me to this year's incoming class, and that if I was still interested in a spot in the MD/PhD program, that it was mine for the taking. He told me that they had just gotten back from winter break, and that one of the first things that they wanted to do when they got back into the office was to tell me that I got in. I almost cried. I hung up the phone and proceeded to freak. out. Can't even describe it.
