residency

So for the last 2 months I have been thining in the back of my mind that I would really like to compelte a residency. I initally didn't think so at the start of my internship, mainly for financial reasons. I was scared that putting off paying loans for three more years would be too much. But the more I have come ot love my internship, the more I realized I was thinking about wanting to do a residency, specifically in ECC (emergency and critical care).

Well, I decided to bring it up with two of the intern directors at our quarter year review last month. Luckily, my review went great, and I have been doing very well. And before I even got a chance to bring it up, all of the intern directors told me they thought I would do well in a residency and that they specifically thought I wa a great fit for ECC.

So it is decided! I am applying for ECC residencies.
If I don't land one, then I will apply for jobs, but if I do get one it looks like even though I will go another 3 years with minimal loans being paid off from vet school I should make a decent amount more when I finish the residency and as such it seems worth it.

For those of you who want to know a bit more about ECC, here is a link describing what an ECC vet does primarily:



Well, I am dreading the application process, but it should be totally worth it. Keep your fingers crossed for me in early February on match date!

update

sorry it has been so long! I am still going strong with my internship, I love it, but am tired and working long hours.

A brief update of things in my life other then the internship:
Mark and I took a 2 day trip to Washington DC a couple months ago (late August) and it was great. Got delicious mexican food at George W. Bush's favorite restuarant. Met up with an old friend, katie hancock, in virginia.

Mark and I also went to the informal lectures of the Ig Nobel Awards in Boston this year. It was HILARIOUS. We heard brief synopsis on the winners' papers, including how to turn tequila in to diamonds, how to stop intractable hiccups (by digital rectal massage), why naming cows actually increases their milk production and the farmer's profits, how women's spines shift when pregnant to accomodate carrying fetal load, and how panda poop has bacteria in it that are extremely efficient at composting your garbage from the kitchen! There was this cute young girl from the audience that thye used to stop the speakers from going over their allotted time as well, and she was adorable! She would run up to the speaker at the podium when the timer went off and yell "Please stop I'm bored" and get louder and louder until they stopped.

That's the most fun things I have done yet this year.

And I have halloween weekend off so I will be going to NYC then to see Christina and the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, yay!