Saturday, March 23, 2013

Interviews & raging times at the lab

I've been having trouble finding time to work on anything for the blog- been completely overrun by research & interview prep.

If you've read my last post regarding my past interview at a med school, you would have seen this:


I recently interviewed at the same med school recently, with (almost) the exact same panel:


...which leads me to believe that all interview panels for that school are composed of three characters: 1 friendly, 1 stoic, 1 skeptical, who've been instructed to appear that way. In any case (after having learned my lesson last year), I was a lot more prepared and the interview went much better. I sincerely hope I can change the title of the blog sometime in the future.

My job has also been keeping me busy. After (actually) working nights, weekends (see How I got my first research position), I'm finally at a point where I can take a breath and relax a bit (although I'm still deep within the never-ending pit of research clusterf**k)... which means I finally have some time to work on the blog.

Updates to come (more like notes to self):

1. Big List of Med School Interview Questions: the most comprehensive collection of interview questions, for both panel and MMI. 

-I admit my own interview prep has been preventing me from putting this together for release, but I hope to get this out soon- hopefully some people will still have a chance to use it.

2. Big list of "Back-Up" Plans for Premeds- Part 5: Pharmacy? Optometry? Podiatry?? If you have any suggestions, please feel free to comment/email.

3. More ragecomics & memes.

4. An investigation to determine why (all of a sudden) the blog's daily view counts have more than doubled.

Matt

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Matt, just wanna say that I have been visiting your blog for sometime now and I think it's very entertaining/helpful! The rage comics are the best :P

I would like to see more of the Back-Up Plans for Premeds series, especially Optometry if you have time! Thanks!

Matt said...

Awesome- yes, Back-Up Plans for Premeds is the next thing on my list as soon as things settle down :) Thank you for your feedback!

Anonymous said...

Cool, thanks!! Looking forward to it, but in the meantime I hope you get a chance to relax a bit!

Anonymous said...

Hi Matt,
You mentioned in your post that you used about 180+ prep test for the Mcats. Where did you find all of them? I'm planning to purchase the ones you recommend, but I was wondering if there are more available online that can be helpful..
Thank you

Matt said...

I never stated that I used "180+ prep tests" for my MCAT. The post you refer to states "...~1800 pages" of paper tests, which does not equal 180+ prep tests. Most of these were Kaplan practice tests.

VIP said...

Podiatry sound terrific