Plans for After You Submit?

[Pomona2006]

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With VMCAS due tomorrow, I am sure that most of us are already submitted (or submitting very shortly). Sure supplemental apps may still looming, but regardless...

What are you planning to do during the next few months to keep yourself busy rather than anxiously waiting by the mailbox with your laptop checking compulsively for email (and SDN)? 😛

 

[sambone]

😍 Wedding dress shopping! 😍

 

[pupsforseeing]

I know that I probably won't hear anything from the only school I applied to (Davis) until late January or early February. So, I'm trying my best to just keep it out of sight/out of mind and go about life without dwelling too much on that fateful email! Between trying to learn two new languages (nothing like immersion!), learning to teach first grade (yay learning on the job!), and living with 30 kids that always keep me on my toes, I have lots to keep my mind busy and off of the looming decisions ahead 🙂

 

[starlene45]

I'm going to try to avoid thinking about it by spending all my time trying to get a decent grade in 2nd semester Organic Chem.

What I will probably end up doing is cruising Craigslist looking for property to rent or buy in all the towns I applied to schools in😀

Congrats to sambone, btw! Good luck on your dress-shopping hunt!

 

[bunnyslippers]

online classes and traveling.

I wish I had a reason to shop for a wedding dress! Congrats!

 

[Tsuky2008]

Hmm....considering I'm already checking the websites even though I KNOW nothing has changed.. I think I need a serious 12 step program for application obsession. Or I just need to focus more on the 17 hours of classes I'm taking...dumb senioritis!

 

[pupsforseeing]

What I will probably end up doing is cruising Craigslist looking for property to rent or buy in all the towns I applied to schools in😀

That was SO me last year!

 

[LucyLoo]

What I will probably end up doing is cruising Craigslist looking for property to rent or buy in all the towns I applied to schools in😀

I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who does that. It was something I kind of kept to myself because I thought it would seem a little obsessive.😀

 

[Malhi]

I am going shopping! And I am going to catch up with friends I have been ignoring for months... I still have to study for Orgo II, genetics, microbiology, stats and orgo lab!!! Way to overload.

 

[dyne]

Well, continuing med school

 

[Pistol Pete]

Speaking of Medical School, that has been my backup plan if I don't get in Vet school. Would like to hear from anyone that mentioned that during an interview as to how the panel reacted. I sense it is not a good answer to the "What if you don't get in Vet school" question.

Pete

 

[HopefulAg]

Drink a few beers.

Oh and continue classes I guess.

 

[david594]

Application is in. 🙂 Spend the rest of the night not doing anything before I start to worry about my 4 remaining supplemental apps.

The rest of life will just be school and work. I am getting bumped up to an ICU nurse role at one of my jobs so I will at least be getting more practice with my technical skills which will be fun.

 

[dyne]

Speaking of Medical School, that has been my backup plan if I don't get in Vet school. Would like to hear from anyone that mentioned that during an interview as to how the panel reacted. I sense it is not a good answer to the "What if you don't get in Vet school" question.

Pete

This was my first time applying to vet school, and I only applied to Cornell (and I only decided at the end of this summer to apply there, after shadowing a veterinarian). My stats are fairly average, 3.6/800Q/540V, BS in Biophysics, I'm currently in my second year of medical school, and I only have ~450hrs of shadowing for a small animal vet. I'm not optimistic.

 

[Truth74]

I'm spending time learning to play this new online mmorpg that I kinda have to do [It's for a company that I like to beta test for, so it's not really a chore.], before I go back to paying attention to my online class.

 

[BlistexWorks]

Traveling, vet tech work, animal science/nutrition courses online...

Planned trips:
- New Year's in NYC
- Australia in late January (tennis open)
- Utah ski trip in mid- February
- Dubai in mid-March

It's about time I used my skymiles!

 

[stick91]

-to celebrate: some beer probably, and putting up Halloween decorations! (I'm a sucker for holiday decor)
-Starting a new job at a small animal hospital next week
-Preparing for/taking Bio GRE
-Online physio and animal nutrition courses
-perhaps volunteering at the science museum!

 

[twelvetigers]

Well, I didn't submit this year, so I'll spend my time doing what I usually do... but I'll also spend some time rooting for you guys. 🙂

 

[elefante7]

Finishing supplementals
Planning my wedding
Working 2 jobs and volunteering and being way over involved in clubs
Trying to maintain a good GPA 🙂

 

[LVT2DVM]

Work overtime to pay for all those ap fees!

Take the BIOLOGY subject test....on standby--EEK! Im such a LOSER!

Try and put it out of my mind for the next 5mths...highly unlikely but the holidays will be here before we know it and then well have something to preoccupy ourselves with, before the mailman stalking begins in '09.

 

[KittyRex]

What I will probably end up doing is cruising Craigslist looking for property to rent or buy in all the towns I applied to schools in😀

Wow. Thats uncanny.

Cruising Craigslist for apartments is definately one of my favorite procrastination activities!

That and checking out all of the stables within a 20 mile radius of the campus.... Oh! and I can't forget looking up job offerings for my sig. other.

 

[turnandburn]

Work overtime to pay for all those ap fees!

Take the BIOLOGY subject test....on standby--EEK! Im such a LOSER!

Try and put it out of my mind for the next 5mths...highly unlikely but the holidays will be here before we know it and then well have something to preoccupy ourselves with, before the mailman stalking begins in '09.

That was HORRIBLE last year!!!!!!
This next 6 months is going to feel like an eternity!!! (assuming I GET an interview!!!)

 

[chris03333]

This was my first time applying to vet school, and I only applied to Cornell (and I only decided at the end of this summer to apply there, after shadowing a veterinarian). My stats are fairly average, 3.6/800Q/540V, BS in Biophysics, I'm currently in my second year of medical school, and I only have ~450hrs of shadowing for a small animal vet. I'm not optimistic.

What made you decide to apply while you are in med school (if you don't mind my asking)?

 

[dyne]

What made you decide to apply while you are in med school (if you don't mind my asking)?

After the end of my first year this past june, I went and shadowed a vet friend that I've known for years. I thoroughly enjoyed it there, and I figured there was no harm in applying, so......

I also just got engaged and I don't think my fiancee has ever been too keen on the idea of spending the next 5 years of our lives with me working hundred hour weeks

 

[nyanko]

I mean, not to sound like a jerk, but I hope you put better reasons than that in your personal statement.

 

[dyne]

I mean, not to sound like a jerk, but I hope you put better reasons than that in your personal statement.

no, that did not make it into the personal statement and is by far not the primary reason for applying