Crashing with residents

[deschutes]

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Hold the wisecracks! I know you must all have a thousand smart-a$s comments rushing to mind, but -

Among the ingenious ways I've heard of saving interview expenses, I remember reading about programs (though not specifically path) where the coordinator is willing to look into the possibility of current residents being able to take in an interviewee for a night.

Is this done? Would it be appropriate for an interviewee to look into an option like this?

If I were a resident, I wouldn't mind doing this once in a while. Our house gets tons of elective students as it is, and it's always good fun.

Frankly I don't need anything more than a couch and a roof.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

Yeah deschutes, you really left the door open on that one!

Our house gets tons of elective students as it is, and it's always good fun.

What kind of house do you run?
That's OK, you don't have to answer. 😀

 

[Fermata]

What kind of house do you run?
That's OK, you don't have to answer. 😀

"Meow."

 

[deschutes]

Scoundrels. Impure Americans of the mind and heart!

UMN offered to get the hotel, so there!
May your invites do the same..... NOT! 😛

Our house is a couch-and-kitchen (medical) youth hostel. It's a big house. Got a fellowship interview? Welcome in! Bringing your laptop? We'll plug you into the LAN!

A friend and a friend of the friend are coming this weekend from Ontario, so it's full house again.

You guys never done this? Man, that's too bad. It must be a Canadian thing.

 

[yaah]

Deschutes you can stay with me if you come here. I welcome any non-crazy person. I'll even give you a ride but we have to leave at about 6:15 am.

 

[deschutes]

I will hold you to that!

I have no objections. I doubt I will sleep a wink that night anyway.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

I will hold you to that!

I have no objections. I doubt I will sleep a wink that night anyway.

Must...resist...the...temptation...to...make...smartass...comment...
Just messin!

Seriously though, speaking of big houses, how many people live at your place? I used to live in a medical co-ed fraternity (oxymoron?) house during my first 4 years here in Ann Arbor. It was a nice place to live, adorned with lots of shrubbery (thanks to the services of Roger the Shrubber a century ago). Anyways, when the house was filled, there would be 32 people living in the house! Sure made for some kickin' parties.

On the topic of interviews, definitely get a good night sleep before interviews. I remember my first MSTP interview; I was up all night because I was really nervous. I remember spending much of the night rehearsing how I was gonna present my research and rereading papers/manuscripts. It was not a pleasant night and my interview (which lasted all day and consisted of meetings with 8 or so faculty) was a disaster. Hence, on subsequent interviews, I would pack a bottle of NyQuil and a tranquilizer dart. Take a swig of NyQuil at around 9 pm, you're out by 9:30 or 10...you get 8 hours of sleep, rock the interview, GG NO RE K THX. Tranquilizer dart being a last resort though. I never used it and I still have it with me. I'll be taking that to interviews this year (although the expiration date reads 08/01).

 

[deschutes]

Must...resist...the...temptation...to...make...smartass...comment...
Just messin!

Andy, you're full of it 😛

I'm one of 4 tenants in half a duplex with shared kitchen/living/dining areas. Coin-operated laundry. Situated halfway between the main campus and the med school/hospital - which are a 15 to 20-minute walk apart. This half of the house has had med students (mostly women) stretching back to the late 90's. Not a frat house in any sense of the word. No wild parties! Though we are across the street from the hospital's closest watering-hole.

We've done cool router things with the one broadband connection that we have - it's now more convenient to message "flip the dishwasher!" than it is to yell or run downstairs.

I don't know how the elective student thing happened. Friends of friends of friends, I suppose. People who for whatever reason are not opposed to couches and mattresses or sleeping bags on the floor! Started before I got here, and will hopefully continue. If I picked up one recipe from everyone who traversed the kitchen, I'd be equipped for life.

NyQuil huh? 🙂 I'll keep that in mind. What is GG NO RE K THX?? 😕

Personally I would chuck a tranquilizer dart that expired 3 years ago.

 

[yaah]

Goodness. Nyquil? Sleepless nights? Don't stress about these interviews! I was a little nervous before the first one but for the rest I slept like a baby. Particularly at Iowa where the bed in the hotel was the most comfortable bed I have EVER been in. I never wanted to get up.

 

[deschutes]

Sleepless nights? Don't stress about these interviews! I was a little nervous before the first one but for the rest I slept like a baby.

I'm leaving it to Ob/Gyn to wear me down!

Particularly at Iowa where the bed in the hotel was the most comfortable bed I have EVER been in. I never wanted to get up.

Are path programs wealthier? I have a good friend who matched to Gen Surg in Iowa last year, and I'm sure I would have heard if they had offered to pick up expenses.

 

[yaah]

Well, path programs often interview fewer people. But it is certainly not universal that they pick up the hotel. It was only a handful of mine that did. Some path programs are very wealthy though. Particularly those that have lots of outside business - like Utah and Michigan and Mayo.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

Andy, you're full of it 😛

Yeah, I've been told that a lot 🙂 Everything else in that post was all true (except for the bit about the tranquilizer dart...thinking back...I would bring TWO tranquilizer darts).

With regards to parties, we had some insane ones. Our classic jello shot party where we invited law students, dental students, graduate students, pharmacy students, nursing students ( 👍 ), etc. At this party we would a few thousand jello shots and we would have around 800-1000 students attend the party at one point or another. Craziness.

NyQuil huh? 🙂 I'll keep that in mind. What is GG NO RE K THX?? 😕

Yeah NyQuil is teh bomb. That whole GG... bit, I can't believe I inadvertantly leaked that out. It's some geeky online gaming phrase that you use when you defeat someone. It's not even worth explaining....it's so sad.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

Goodness. Nyquil? Sleepless nights? Don't stress about these interviews! I was a little nervous before the first one but for the rest I slept like a baby. Particularly at Iowa where the bed in the hotel was the most comfortable bed I have EVER been in. I never wanted to get up.

I too will be nervous before my first interview I think. Hence I'll need NyQuil again.

Yeah, sleepless nights. Falling asleep can get very tough for me. I have to be tired to fall asleep. I know friends who can sleep at will...I'm not one of those kinds of people.

 

[deschutes]

That whole GG... bit, I can't believe I inadvertantly leaked that out. It's some geeky online gaming phrase that you use when you defeat someone.

Which means that it is Googleable.

"Good game, no rematch ok thanks"!

I have a geek streak, though not a gamer.
And I like to know things 😉

I should just bow to the inevitable and go to bed. Bloody cold bug. And when I wake up it will be Friday, with only one more week of Internal Med remaining!

 

[b&ierstiefel]

Which means that it is Googleable.

"Good game, no rematch ok thanks"!

I have a geek streak, though not a gamer.
And I like to know things 😉

I should just bow to the inevitable and go to bed. Bloody cold bug. And when I wake up it will be Friday, with only one more week of Internal Med remaining!

Well I knew you would google it which justified my reason for not going into it 🙂

RW GB KA in your last week of IM. Now go google that 😛

 

[deschutes]

RW GB KA in your last week of IM. Now go google that 😛

Which you presumably know full well I will not find...? 😉

I'll give it a shot.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

Which you presumably know full well I will not find...? 😉

I'll give it a shot.

I knew that you knew that I thought you wouldn't be able to find but would try to give it a shot anyway. 😱

anyways, it just means rest well get better kick ass in your last week of infernal frickin medicine.

i could've said GL HF as well...but you don't need the luck and IM is not fun.

 

[deschutes]

Don't stress about these interviews!

I was thinking that there is another dimension to it.

Imagine if you were in that part of the world, to fly to Singapore, and Taiwan, and Tokyo and Hong Kong, and Bangkok, and Jakarta - all a couple of days apart - for the purposes of interviewing for a job... They're all neat places, fairly safe places, places you've perhaps heard stories about and seen on TV/films - just that you've never visited in person.

So no less exciting than nerve-wracking!

Of course, it's not exactly the same analogy, but you know what I mean. 🙂