I'm feeling obnoxious tonight, and apparently I've been "diagnosed" separately both by Ben and his mom. I'm "emotionally unresponsive." Great. Now I have a lame excuse like other people do for being antisocial, smart, and witty. Yay. Maybe I can be considered an under-represented minority by med schools, now. *hoo-rah!* Wonder how much, in terms of GPA and MCAT score, that's worth. 0.1 GPA points and 1 MCAT point, maybe?
Thanksgiving was pretty interesting. I'll probably update this entry bit by bit as I get it all onto paper.
I am so excited for SVU tonight. Olivia is coming back! Sexual tension ahoy! *squee!*
I have major Nintendo DS Lite lust. I'm not sure why, but I do.
On Friday I went to Best Buy at home with Dan-poo, Erin-chan, and Benjy and played the demo version of March of the Minis on the DS Lite there. Baaad decision. It was a heck of a lot of fun, even if I had some trouble managing the stylus. Today in lab while I was waiting for the fluorescence spectrometer lamp to warm up, I browsed online for DS stuff. If the local Best Buy around here has a sample DS on display, I'm going to go on Friday during my lunch break and play whatever game they have on it.
I'm really thinking about asking my parents for one for Christmas, but there are a few problems.
1) Money: Is $130 for the hardware + additional $100 for games and a protective case worth it? $200+ is a lot of money, even if it's not coming from my non-existent pockets. *angst*
2) It's a video game system: I dunno if my parents would even consider buying it. *grump* They also spend $95 every year to keep my website running, so. But maybe they would buy one for me, since I generally don't ask for much.
3) Time: Do I realistically have time to enjoy it without ruining my grades? Maybe, since I'll (hopefully) be travelling to interview and stuff. But it's more likely that I'll be playing it in my apartment on the couch while I'm watching TV and avoiding homework. *think*
4) Novelty factor: Since it's something I've been thinking about lately, maybe I'll get over this phase in a few weeks. I tend to go through wild-obsession-phases with certain things, and maybe this is just one of them. *worry*
5) Music: Ideally, I'd like to be able to play MP3/WMA music on it, too. I saw in the news that Nintendo Europe's releasing such an add-on. Will it come out in America, too? *lalala?*
What to do, oh, what to do? *wonders*
My blog was broken for a couple of days, when I most felt like posting. Took me until now to get things fixed. I still have no idea why things broke all of a sudden, but it apparently required a server move to solve problems, which screwed with the configuration of this blog, but just now I got things to work, so yay.
I had my NYU interview on Friday, and on Thursday night I felt like this. Just insert a text bubble saying, "AAAAAAAAAAHHH!" like when Jerry drops an iron on Tom's foot. I was frantically reviewing my transcripts, practicing my schpeal about my research, etc.
As for the interview itself, I was really nervous. I think it went okay, just not fabulous. It was kinda weird for my interviewer, Dr. Thomas Riles, to start out with, "I want to congratulate you on your excellent academic record and MCAT score. Your letters of recommendation say some very good things about you. There's no doubt in my mind that you'll make a great doctor - the question is just where you'll do your training." It was definitely an "Uhhhh.... thanks" moment, but I didn't quite say it like that. We had a really interesting talk about medical ethics, NYU-style. Apparently his previous institution was not so great. Hehe. >___>;
He also ended the interview with a recap of that "everything is great" statement. I'm not sure if he was trying to say, "I'll put in a good word for you with the committee," or "You'll get into med school, just not here." I really hope it was the former and NOT the latter.
I guess I'm just feeling okay about it because it didn't go the way I expected. It was very topical - he'd only seen my file in the 10-15 minutes before he came out of the interview room to get me, so it was... just not what I expected. Maybe I feel down because I expected the angel Gabriel to come and blow his trumpet or something.
Well, I liked the tour a lot. While the dorms were a bit small and run-down, they only cost $600/month, which is dirt-cheap for Manhattan, so no complaints there. You also don't have to wash your own scrubs - there's a machine where you put your dirty ones in and get clean ones out. After smelling the Anatomy lab... I really don't want to have to wash them myself.
I also really like Bellevue's public mission. During lunch, Dr. Lewis Goldfrank came to speak at us, and he was just as compelling as the first time I saw him (that was a year ago). He makes me want to go into ER medicine.
I spent HOURS obsessing over the thank you letter(s) - HOURS. God bless Ben's dad for helping me all through this. It was absolutely horrible. In the end, I wrote one to Dr. Riles and one to the admissions committee.
In short, I really hope I get a letter come mid-December.
