As a HUGE non sequitur I somehow got an exclusive interview with the bard himself, William Shakespeare, on his thoughts about how well he thought he did on the April MCAT (of 1585). I must warn you though, I had time to kill. So rejoice all and gather round to read on if you dare!:
To see, or not to see [his MCAT score], that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous testing,
Or to take pills against a sea of headaches,
And by opposing extend them.
To cry: to weep
Some more; and by a weep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand dollar bills
That AMCAS is heir to; ?tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To cry, to weep;
To weep; perchance to scream. Ay, there's the rub;
For in that weep of wait what screams may come,
When we have shuffled off the [score's] envelope foil,
Must give us pause -- there?s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who else could bear the whips and scorns of med school.......
There you have it guys: Shakespeare was just as ambivalent about the whole friggin' ordeal as I am now. (And methinks he studied harder for it than I! 😉 ) In the meantime, I'm making plans to take the bloody thing again in August. Any other potential August MCAT mates lost out at sea? 🙂