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