The long road to medical school: Oh yeah

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Oh yeah

I passed my oral candidacy exam. One more hurdle behind me on this long, LONG, road.

21 Pearls of Wisdom:

SRR said...: Congratulations!!! From a long time lurker.; 12:50 PM
a said...: Congrats!!; 12:54 PM
Snarky Scalpel said...: congratulations!; 1:17 PM
The Snowboarding Vet Student said...: Yay!; 1:39 PM
C said...: yay, congrats!!; 2:17 PM
Red Stethoscope said...: YAY! Congratulations!; 2:33 PM
Penelope said...: Congratulations! (never had any doubt that you wouldn't); 2:41 PM
dolce vita said...: congratulations!!!! A paper and passing candidacy? You rock!; 3:19 PM
ames said...: Congrats! I'm sure that was a load off.; 3:22 PM
Elizabeth said...: congrats!!; 4:06 PM
Mad Jack said...: Congratulations!; 4:50 PM
XOXO Dr. Kay Elizabeth said...: CONGRATS! Now what is that?..... not to sound dumb or anything.; 5:01 PM
frylime said...: congrats!; 6:17 PM
iamnothouse.com said...: Congrats! Way to go!; 8:30 PM
Hunter's Mom said...: That is AWESOME news!! Congratulations on such good news! :); 10:46 PM
From Food Addict to MD said...: Congrats!!! :); 12:47 AM
Knot Telling said...: Hurray! Congratulations!; 7:19 AM
Maren said...: Congrats! Now it's time for baby!; 6:22 PM
Larissa said...: Congratulations!; 7:44 PM
Liana said...: Yay! Glad for you!; 10:46 PM
Ellen said...: Congratulations!; 8:31 AM

Mini-Biography

After graduating in 1999 from the University of Chicago with a degree in Sociology, Old MD Girl started working for what she now refers to as "The Dark Side" -- sales and marketing consulting for pharmaceutical companies. This was not a good fit. A year later, she started a management trainee position at The Industrial Supply Company From Hell. Mercifully, that phase of her life came to an end in 2003, and she had to decide FOR REAL THIS TIME what to do with her life.

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Four months later ( That's ~~7 8~~ 9 years ago already!), she started a job doing diabetes health policy research, taking her pre-med classes, and commenced The Long Road to Medical School. Now that she's in medical school, she spends what little free time she has swimming, hanging out with her husband, playing with her dog, and trying to figure out what to do with her life (still).

email:

If you have a burning question that you don't want the whole world to see, you can try emailing me:

OldMDGirl@gmail.com

I am not receptive to the following:

1) Requests to advertise or promote your site or products on my blog.

2) Questions such as, "Am I going to get into medical school?" I don't know. And when you tell me your GPA is a 2.7 my answer will be "Probably not," which you don't want to hear anyway.

3) Questions like, "Should I go to medical school?" How the heck should I know? Only you can answer that question.

4) Questions like, "What kind of post-bac did you do?" I have answered that in detail in previous posts.

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