Life and other things with random musings

Without even realizing it, this blog has passed 100,000 views. Which is pretty cool.

Fig 1. Wow I'm so happy to have reached 100k views for this blog.

This is an unexpected surprise. In case you haven't noticed, I've added a small poll on the right side to see how many people actually visit this blog regularly. If you do visit this blog regularly, thank you for your support(?) and please do vote in the poll.

Incidentally, here's a graph showing blog viewership since I started in 2011:

Fig 2. Number of hits, 2011-current.

Random rant 1:

To be completely honest, I've lost my way in terms of what to do with this blog. To be even more honest, it's probably because I've been having doubts about medicine. Yeah that's right, I said it. I'm sure many applicants (especially those not accepted after many cycles), and even those who are already in med school, in residency, or practicing, have had doubts at some point... and I'm sure there are a lot of others in similar situations as mine.

Random rant 2:

I think I speak for a lot of people with this rant... I applied again this cycle. It feels like everyone around me (sometimes literally) is getting accepted and moving on, while I'm stuck in the same loop. I'm just tired at this point and on the verge of giving up and doing something else. On average, premeds apply 2.9 times before getting accepted... which kind of sucks.

Random rant 3:

I've ran out of things to rant about... but I've developed a sort of addiction for research. Here is an artist's depiction of what research looks like (stealthily borrowed from the MNI):

Fig 3. What research really looks like.

Nevertheless, I (by I, I mean we) will keep trying/applying, although I may fall off the bandwagon at some point.

So that brings us to this: what am I going to do? I've (temporarily) ran out of steam for admissions, medicine, med school, and all things related including this blog... you may have noticed that the last time I posted was in June. However, I still plan on finishing off/continuing a few things for the blog:

• Big List of All Med School Interview Questions- Part 2: MMI/ethical
• I will get this out in the near(?) future... it'll be nowhere as organized as Part 1, but nevertheless still useful.
• Big List of "Back-Up" Plans
• I hope to continue this, albeit at a much slower pace.
• Comics & memes
• It's like I've turned off whatever controls my sense of humour in my brain.
• Answering comments & emails
• I've always replied to comments & especially emails (I'm more accessible by email- those of you who've emailed me would know... my apologies if I've forgotten to reply at any point though). Feel free to email me your sympathies.

Other than that, things will continue to move along. Good luck to all the applicants applying this year.

Matt