urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:evands evands evands 2004-07-16T02:04:24Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:evands:563 2004-07-16T01:53:19Z 2004-07-16T02:04:24Z Whirlwind end of July / beginning of August begins tomorrow morning. Pick up an old friend at the airport on the way home, have about 24 hours to see both her and Jade before I leave for New Orleans. New Orleans I depart on a weeklong cruise my mother cooked up as a family activity - should be fun. When I get back to New Orleans, the family drops me off at the airport on the way out of town, and I fly to Montreal via Detroit... there for a week for work (though I'm not exactly sure WHAT work.. just that Dr. Zald, my boss, said he wanted to fly me up there, and I said okay). <br /><br />Then fly back to Atlanta, get picked up (hopefully by Jade), go back to Anniston, have a day at home, then back up to Nashville with 5 days until I go to Wild Dunes, SC, to the beach, then back with 4 days to move my stuff into a friend's apartment since campus won't let me into my house that early.<br /><br />Oh, and if you're interested in hearing me ramble, mostly about programming, you could check out <a href="http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/000306.html">this interview</a> of me on drunkenblog.com - he's been doing a series of interviews of programmers involved in Macintosh software development. The <a href="http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/000300.html">previous one</a> was with Rich Wareham of Desktop Manager and is also a very good read if you're into that sort of thing. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:evands:435 2004-06-17T20:19:55Z 2004-06-17T20:19:55Z A big day in WoE (that's World of Evan)... so I figured a reasonable time, as well, for a first LJ post. I'm mostly done with medical school applications, and by 'mostly done' I mean have done everything but the actually-difficult bit, the Personal Statement. Bah, another hour, perhaps. I stared at it for a while, when to an unnecessarily long lunch with some friends, bouncing around anxiously the whole time.. since AMCAS reported as of this morning that they had 1 of 1 MCAT scores on file...<br /><br />...which meant I should have received them in the mail today. Went to the mail room, running the last couple hundred yards, eagerly bending down slightly as I round the second set of mailboxes to peer into the little window on the mail I'm provided... something in there... but just another free issue of Stuff magazine. It's a really dumb publication, but slickdeals.net got me a free 3 year subscription sophomore year and, well, I won't argue with that.<br /><br />So I wander back to the lab, downtrodden, and idly log into the AMCAS website... where I find that April 2004 scores are posted. I am, needless to say, a bit worried clicking that <i>login</i> button on the page... but I shouldn't have been. Sweet Jesus on a stick I'm happy :)<br /><br /><img src="http://evands.penguinmilitia.net/Evan-MCAT.jpg"><br /><br />Golden. =) Now the question is... do I want to go the sorts of places a 38 makes possible? Or would being a big fish in a small(er) pond be more my thing? And should money make a difference? I bet UAB, a top 20 university AND my state school, would be thrilled to give me a scholarship... I'm not sure I even <u>want</u> to argue with that.