This process is consuming me...

[gobblety_gook]

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I don't know if anyone else feels this way...but the time I spend on applications, reading up on schools, reading interview feedbacks, talking to med students, preparing for interviews, picking interview clothing, writing emails, planning trips, actually going to schools, interviewing, "SDNing", and then worrying about the outcome is absolutely ABSURD.

This process has consumed at least 3 months of my life...and despite a fulltime job, I can't seem to get my mind off of the admissions game...

Arrrrghh...can't wait for that first acceptence!

 

[DrYo12]

Word. Its kind of like an action potential--all or nothing! But I think you'd agree its worth the effort....

 

[LauraMac]

Word. Its kind of like an action potential--all or nothing! But I think you'd agree its worth the effort....

like an action potential... haha, that's sick!

 

[DrYo12]

You know its bad when you make references to things like action potentials...you know its even worse when you get the reference!

 

[runner1979]

Word. Its kind of like an action potential--all or nothing! But I think you'd agree its worth the effort....

serously , you need to get out more...

 

[DrYo12]

Oh, don't think you're impervious to the hilarity of it all...

 

[gobblety_gook]

Oh, don't think you're impervious to the hilarity of it all...

Sometimes, I want to wrap myself up in a brand new white strate jacket...and just laugh uncontrollably...thats what this process does to you!

 

[Medikit]

I don't know if anyone else feels this way...but the time I spend on applications, reading up on schools, reading interview feedbacks, talking to med students, preparing for interviews, picking interview clothing, writing emails, planning trips, actually going to schools, interviewing, "SDNing", and then worrying about the outcome is absolutely ABSURD.

This process has consumed at least 3 months of my life...and despite a fulltime job, I can't seem to get my mind off of the admissions game...

Arrrrghh...can't wait for that first acceptence!

Find someone beautiful and do fun things with them

 

[krelian]

Just because you're interviewing and stuff doesn't mean the process has to consume you. I had fun on many of my interviews. Of course, there's cheaper and less stressful ways to have fun, but try to trick yourself into thinking that each interview trip is really a small vacation 😛 .

 

[DrThom]

Just because you're interviewing and stuff doesn't mean the process has to consume you. I had fun on many of my interviews. Of course, there's cheaper and less stressful ways to have fun, but try to trick yourself into thinking that each interview trip is really a small vacation 😛 .

Yes, a small vacation filled with people who are being paid to judge you.

 

[SFAJess]

I feel ya OP, but being a Texan I have to wait until Feb 1 to know of ONE acceptance.

But then again, for the rest of y'all: you never know when it could come. It could have come 10/15 or months later. I guess the advantage of being a Texan is that we sign on to the internet at midnight of Feb 1 and see once and for all if all of this consumption into the world of applications and interviews has paid off.

 

[ellia08]

I know exactly what you mean about time input. I applied to 15 schools was super excited to get secondaries from all of them HOWEVER have spent MASSIVE AMOUNTs of time filling out this crap. I am double majoring. I dont have time for this .... except of course that this is the single most important thing I am doing this semester. Sigh.

Worse yet. Even with all those secondaries, interviews are slow in coming.

Sometimes it feels like some giant cosmic joke.

One that is not funny.

 

[Mistress S]

Time and finance-wise, this whole process is a huge investment. I applied to 20 schools, have filled out 14 secondaries so far, and am flat broke, despite working full-time. It is stressful to be living paycheck to paycheck like this, and never have money for anything fun or emergencies. I've had to run up my credit card, borrow money from my family--things I never wanted to do. And now that the Aug MCAT results are out, I'm already anxious to hear from schools. I check my e-mail, literally, probably a dozen times a day or more, and every day when I check my mailbox I feel excited, then disappointed. It's like being on a rollercoaster, and with the stress of working and my thesis (which I need to get done to graduate), it's all too much sometimes. 🙁

 

[Ambs]

Word. Its kind of like an action potential--all or nothing! But I think you'd agree its worth the effort....

WOW.

Ok, fine, I admit.. I laughed... a lot.

 

[Ambs]

Time and finance-wise, this whole process is a huge investment. I applied to 20 schools, have filled out 14 secondaries so far, and am flat broke, despite working full-time. It is stressful to be living paycheck to paycheck like this, and never have money for anything fun or emergencies. I've had to run up my credit card, borrow money from my family--things I never wanted to do. And now that the Aug MCAT results are out, I'm already anxious to hear from schools. I check my e-mail, literally, probably a dozen times a day or more, and every day when I check my mailbox I feel excited, then disappointed. It's like being on a rollercoaster, and with the stress of working and my thesis (which I need to get done to graduate), it's all too much sometimes. 🙁

DITTO! I'm damned near broke, and I work full-time too. It's ridiculous. I too check my e-mail almost every hour, initially with excitement and nervousness. Then when I see NOTHING yet again, I crash into that static, awful state of disappointment. SO, what shall I do with my next paycheck: pay my credit card bill, pay my parents back, or send in more secondaries?

 

[ellia08]

Yup. Money is flowing though my hands like water even though I am trying to be as frugal as possible. I just keep telling myself: this is an investment in my future, this is an investment in my future, repeat as necessary.

This doesnt actually work but is soothing in a micropippetting, zen, repetitive kind of way.

(excuse the poor spelling please)

What really kills me is the loss of time and the knowledge that no matter how perfectly beautifully efficient I am there is no possible way to complete as much work when I am constantly gone on interviews.

I deal with this by reminding myself that I am damn lucky to have this problem to begin with.

The only nice thing: Although the stress doesnt go away after your first acceptance, the bottomless well of fear that you didnt even know you had WILL be gone.

 

[hotlikebutter]

uh, if you think it sucks now, wait til you get in. the applications and researching your future doesnt stop. once your in, then you got exams, boards, then you start trying to match. i was like you too, then one of my friends already in med school told me this, and i have never complained again.

 

[SarahGM]

uh, if you think it sucks now, wait til you get in. the applications and researching your future doesnt stop. once your in, then you got exams, boards, then you start trying to match. i was like you too, then one of my friends already in med school told me this, and i have never complained again.

I ditto this. We are about to have an exam block, and I'm thinking... what I wouldn't do to not have to deal with this right now! I've had one too many days lately where classes go until 10:30pm... whereupon I can "finally" go home and begin studying that day's material, let ALONE prepare for the upcoming exams.

However... reading this thread does make me appreciate the position I am in. I say that to acknowledge what you're going through- keep up the good work!