Off to see the wizard..

Fri, 16 Jul 2004 01:53:19 GMT

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).

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.

Oh, and if you're interested in hearing me ramble, mostly about programming, you could check out this interview of me on drunkenblog.com - he's been doing a series of interviews of programmers involved in Macintosh software development. The previous one was with Rich Wareham of Desktop Manager and is also a very good read if you're into that sort of thing.

An auspicious beginning

Thu, 17 Jun 2004 20:19:55 GMT

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...

...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.

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 login button on the page... but I shouldn't have been. Sweet Jesus on a stick I'm happy :)

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 want to argue with that.

evands

Off to see the wizard..

An auspicious beginning