Luggage for Interviews

[SleepyTime]

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What are you all using for luggage? Carry-on only? Suit-bag ?

 

[DrDre']

I bought a carry-on size wheeled luggage piece that has a tri folding suit bag inside. It wrinkles a little but i can get the rest out with a hot shower and maybe a few passes with the iron. I don't have a suiter but they seem like a pain to carry.

I will not take non-carry on. I don't like waiting around AND most importantly- after taking 10 or more flights, it is just a matter of odds you lose a bag. My friend had his bags delayed in Boston 4 years ago and had to buy a suit.

I think interviews are stressful enough just getting to them. Add worrying about your suit getting there is too much.

 

[lvspro]

I bought a carry-on size wheeled luggage piece that has a tri folding suit bag inside. It wrinkles a little but i can get the rest out with a hot shower and maybe a few passes with the iron. I don't have a suiter but they seem like a pain to carry.

I will not take non-carry on. I don't like waiting around AND most importantly- after taking 10 or more flights, it is just a matter of odds you lose a bag. My friend had his bags delayed in Boston 4 years ago and had to buy a suit.

I think interviews are stressful enough just getting to them. Add worrying about your suit getting there is too much.

Gotta agree with the above. If you need more than one of these bags then you are either gay or a woman. This applies only if you have 1 interview lined up, or maybe even 2. If you have 3 or more, then I think you should take another bag b/c you r likely gonna be there more than a couple of days. Anything more than a suit, 1 pre-interview dinner outfit, and maybe a workout get-up is just overdoing it IMHO. I've found that I can store all toiletries "read as soap, facewash, razorx1, deoderant, and cologne" in the zipperfront of said bag. The suitie is just a waste of time, and space, and isn't worth the hassle when you could just do the shower trick as above. Suit, pre-interview outfit, workout outfit, 3 socks, 3 underwear, deoderant, cologne, and maybe a bottle of KY if you r really tryin' to "slide" your way into a program is all you should need.
Never been on interviews, but have traveled quite a bit, so take my opinion WAGOS.

 

[ThinkFast007]

and a black book 😉

 

[IlianaSedai]

Okay.... now suppose you either don't have a hotel, or need to check out before you get out of your interview.... In my case, I'm taking public transportation to an interview which ends at 2pm, then I need to fly to another interview that evening! Any brilliant ideas on where I can store my stupid suitcase during the interview?

 

[DrDre']

Okay.... now suppose you either don't have a hotel, or need to check out before you get out of your interview.... In my case, I'm taking public transportation to an interview which ends at 2pm, then I need to fly to another interview that evening! Any brilliant ideas on where I can store my stupid suitcase during the interview?

With the residency coordinator or the dept secretary. IF this isn't available and they seem put out with the effort, consider it a litmus test. Normally, one shouldn't take "anything extra" to an interview. However, all that goes out the window in the real world. If someone thinks it is weird that you have a carry-on bag you want left with a secretary, they should pay for another night at the hotel!

 

[aredoubleyou]

Okay.... now suppose you either don't have a hotel, or need to check out before you get out of your interview.... In my case, I'm taking public transportation to an interview which ends at 2pm, then I need to fly to another interview that evening! Any brilliant ideas on where I can store my stupid suitcase during the interview?

1. If you need to check out b4 the interview leave your bags at the desk - every hotel has a room to store bags for this purpose, even the cheap ones.
2. If that wont work, bring your bag w/you to the interview - you'll leave it somewhere in the anesthesiology department until your interviews finish, then take it with you on your way out the door. You can jump on the subway to the airport right away. If you do this its probably about the time to replace the beat up bag with the sex pistols and dead kennedys patches on it and get a respectable suitcase!

 

[DrDre']

RUU,
Speaking of litmus tests,
Sex pistols and DK ARE respectable. Any prog that doesn't respect such seminal punk shouldn't be on our ROLs!

 

[aredoubleyou]

I wholeheartedly agree - perhaps that will be one of my questions...would it be ok to bring skateboards to the OR, its just soooo much walking

 

[SleepyTime]

Where do you find a carry on with a tri-fold for a good price.

Thanks for the input everybody.

 

[lvspro]

Okay.... now suppose you either don't have a hotel, or need to check out before you get out of your interview.... In my case, I'm taking public transportation to an interview which ends at 2pm, then I need to fly to another interview that evening! Any brilliant ideas on where I can store my stupid suitcase during the interview?

Here's a brilliant idea for ya. Go to the airport after you change into your suit, and put your bag in one of the lockers there. It costs like $.50, or $1.50. Also, after you finish your interview, go to the airport, change in the bathroom... plenty of others do it... into your flight clothes (aka: the workout clothes I mentioned earlier), and off to your new destination you go. If the airport doesn't have the lockers ,which is unlikely, then go to either the local train station, bustation, shopping mall.... in that order. The probability is very high that you can find a locker.

 

[DrDre']

Carry-on,
I got mine through sierratradingpost.com. great deal

 

[SleepyTime]

Thanks Dre'. You guys really helped.

 

[Frank Rizzo]

anything more than one carry-on, and you're bringing too much