I know this is 2 weeks too late, but just in case not everyone knows...I matched at Anegll for a residency in ECC! It was my top choice as it is one of the busiest hospitals in the US, has a competitive ECC program, and it was somewhere new (I applied and loved Tufts, Tufts Walpole, and UPenn as well, but Angell was the best fit for me based on my interview).
Of course, I was super worried I was not going to match, and was a bit in shock on that Monday morning when I opened the email and saw I had matched at my top place. It was flattering to find out after that I had been in the ranks at all 4 places I ranked (plus others I hadn't ranked) from some insider information.
Well, it is a bit early, but I am looking forward to moving back to Boston in the summer and it will be a tough residency, but i am super psyched!
Friday, February 26, 2010
bad news bears
Well, there seems to be a horrible plague of sickness and family illness hitting my internship. It seems like on a weekly basis someone is out because they are terribly ill with some weird undiagnosed illness (and I mean really weird stuff, going to the ER and everything), or a family member die, or a significant other's family member dies...seriously, this has happened to 6 different people in the last month (and there are only 14 interns here). I think we are currently cursed. And I am grateful it hasn't happened to me, but the down side is that I am consequently working more shifts or covering and switching in ways that aren't convenient for me. Oh well.
I figured out my schedule in the next 4 weeks, and it is a little daunting:
Instead of working swing shift from 12-10pm this Sunday, I am covernig a shift for one of above said interns...I am now working from 4pm-9am the following morning, and then on Monday even though I finish at 9am, I am driving to Boston before sleeping since I have made dinner plans with several people for Monday night.
Then I work all week....actually starting Wednesday I work for 10 days straight. Then I have Sat. March 13 off but am going to Boston for a comedy show (also perviously planned) and driving back for work at 6am that night after the show.
I have March 20 off, and Heather and Denis are visiting and spending some of the weekend off, which I am super excited for since I have not seen them in who knows how long. Then I have the 22/23 off (Mon/Tues) but will be spending it finishing my presentation for work which is due on that Thursday. In April I only have 4 days off total...Wow, this is very depressing, well, I should stop thinking about it.
I figured out my schedule in the next 4 weeks, and it is a little daunting:
Instead of working swing shift from 12-10pm this Sunday, I am covernig a shift for one of above said interns...I am now working from 4pm-9am the following morning, and then on Monday even though I finish at 9am, I am driving to Boston before sleeping since I have made dinner plans with several people for Monday night.
Then I work all week....actually starting Wednesday I work for 10 days straight. Then I have Sat. March 13 off but am going to Boston for a comedy show (also perviously planned) and driving back for work at 6am that night after the show.
I have March 20 off, and Heather and Denis are visiting and spending some of the weekend off, which I am super excited for since I have not seen them in who knows how long. Then I have the 22/23 off (Mon/Tues) but will be spending it finishing my presentation for work which is due on that Thursday. In April I only have 4 days off total...Wow, this is very depressing, well, I should stop thinking about it.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
NYC for a day
Well yesterday was the trip to NYC with Muya from Kenya, and it went pretty well. It was freezing cold and pouring which sucked, and it was mostly freezing rain...that made it quite difficult to see the things we had planned on like Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. Instead we went for indoor activities...
We started at the Wax Museum just outside of the Grand Central Station where we arrived. While the celebreties weren't as big of a hit for Muya, the room of famous politicians was amazing. He LOVED it. Muya had his picture taken with almost every person in there...from the Clintons and obamas to louis armstong and ghandi. We arrived at noon and were there until 1:30.
Then we took the subway to the natural history museum, where Muya also had a blast. I was pretty beat by the end of it, since we were there from 2-5. But Muya did tell me at one point "This is perfect, very smart of you to take a naturalist to a place like this, amazing, I could spend weeks here!". Of course, at one point he had bought me lunch, and was shocked by the price for two salads and two sodas and a snickers bar for him, and made a comment that he hoped his credit card would not exceed its limit....which made me nervous.
After the museum we went to the apple store since Muya had tried to stop at EVERY electronic thrift store to look at ipods and computers....I told him it would be better to go to the source. BIG mistake on my part...we spent over an hour doing nothing there....he would stare off and debate whether or not he should buy an ipod. I told him realistically it was not a good idea for him...he had misconceptions and thought it came with music already. At one point we actually ran in to someone from Niger and were able to talk about apple products in Africa with him. I finally convinced Muya it was not a good investment for him...he wanted the nano but he owns 20 cds total, and he refused to buy the shuffle as it was too small.
So we left after that painful hour and went next door to the FAO Schwartz building, toured the toy store. As we were leaving Muya said he was very sad and wanted an ipod and that buying one in NYC would be better cause it would be like a souvenir then. I finally obliged and took him BACK as long as he promised not to spend another hour deciding what he wanted. We went straight up to the cashier and got his silver ipod, only to have his credit card declined. Poor Muya, but I did not have enough money to help him out either.
We grabbed a beer in grand central station and then headed back to Connecticut, arriving back at 9:30. We ordered chinese food for dinner, which was DELICIOUS since I was famished by this point.
Well, that was the day in a nut shell...now we are just relaxing today since I have to go to work at 2pm, and Muya is screwing around with my phone trying to call Kenya with the calling card...(I pray something doesn't go wrong and I end up with an enormous bill this time).
Tomorrow I take him back to the airport in the morning and hope that I will see him again in Kenya, sooner rather then later.
We started at the Wax Museum just outside of the Grand Central Station where we arrived. While the celebreties weren't as big of a hit for Muya, the room of famous politicians was amazing. He LOVED it. Muya had his picture taken with almost every person in there...from the Clintons and obamas to louis armstong and ghandi. We arrived at noon and were there until 1:30.
Then we took the subway to the natural history museum, where Muya also had a blast. I was pretty beat by the end of it, since we were there from 2-5. But Muya did tell me at one point "This is perfect, very smart of you to take a naturalist to a place like this, amazing, I could spend weeks here!". Of course, at one point he had bought me lunch, and was shocked by the price for two salads and two sodas and a snickers bar for him, and made a comment that he hoped his credit card would not exceed its limit....which made me nervous.
After the museum we went to the apple store since Muya had tried to stop at EVERY electronic thrift store to look at ipods and computers....I told him it would be better to go to the source. BIG mistake on my part...we spent over an hour doing nothing there....he would stare off and debate whether or not he should buy an ipod. I told him realistically it was not a good idea for him...he had misconceptions and thought it came with music already. At one point we actually ran in to someone from Niger and were able to talk about apple products in Africa with him. I finally convinced Muya it was not a good investment for him...he wanted the nano but he owns 20 cds total, and he refused to buy the shuffle as it was too small.
So we left after that painful hour and went next door to the FAO Schwartz building, toured the toy store. As we were leaving Muya said he was very sad and wanted an ipod and that buying one in NYC would be better cause it would be like a souvenir then. I finally obliged and took him BACK as long as he promised not to spend another hour deciding what he wanted. We went straight up to the cashier and got his silver ipod, only to have his credit card declined. Poor Muya, but I did not have enough money to help him out either.
We grabbed a beer in grand central station and then headed back to Connecticut, arriving back at 9:30. We ordered chinese food for dinner, which was DELICIOUS since I was famished by this point.
Well, that was the day in a nut shell...now we are just relaxing today since I have to go to work at 2pm, and Muya is screwing around with my phone trying to call Kenya with the calling card...(I pray something doesn't go wrong and I end up with an enormous bill this time).
Tomorrow I take him back to the airport in the morning and hope that I will see him again in Kenya, sooner rather then later.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
A Kenyan in New England
Sorry I don't write much here anymore....I am forbidden to reference work ever, and since 95% of my life is work with the internship, I haven't gotten around to writing much.
Right now I am hosting Muya, my mentor from Kenya. It is his first time in the United States. He emailed Corynne and I (the two who went to Kenya and Wales with him for 9 weeks) in January stating that he would be visiting the states for the first time ever for a conference in Florida. Of course that is too far away for us, so we recommended he travel up to New England on the end of his trip to visit. He arrived in Boston on Saturday and Corynne and her fiance Paul hung out with him then. On Sunday Corynne, Mark and I took Muya for an official tour of Boston.
First we went to Harvard Square...and found out from an information person that there was no official sign for "Harvard University"...so Muya amused us by stopping to take pictures of every silly thing that said Harvard on it from t-shirts to news stands.
Then we took the T to Fanueil Hall and toured there and Quincy Market.
We walked form there through Boston Common, saw the State House, and the ice skating rink, and Muya walked on the ice over a pond for the first time ever.
We then walked up Newbury to the prudential building and went to the bar at the top with SPECTACULAR views of Boston to have a drink. Then we all took the T back to Davis where Mark lives and got a cheap dinner at Red Bones with good beer and too much meat according to Muya (I feasted on the portabella mushroom burger).
Yesterday Corynne and I took Muya to breakfast, then I drove with Muya through Grafton to see the vet school, stopped at Target with him to buy good souvenirs for his family, and then headed back to Connecticut. Muya took pictures of almost every exit sign along the way! We went to dinner at The Brewhouse in SoNo with some of my internmates last night.
Today despite the freezing rain we are about to leave for NYC for more sight seeing!
Right now I am hosting Muya, my mentor from Kenya. It is his first time in the United States. He emailed Corynne and I (the two who went to Kenya and Wales with him for 9 weeks) in January stating that he would be visiting the states for the first time ever for a conference in Florida. Of course that is too far away for us, so we recommended he travel up to New England on the end of his trip to visit. He arrived in Boston on Saturday and Corynne and her fiance Paul hung out with him then. On Sunday Corynne, Mark and I took Muya for an official tour of Boston.
First we went to Harvard Square...and found out from an information person that there was no official sign for "Harvard University"...so Muya amused us by stopping to take pictures of every silly thing that said Harvard on it from t-shirts to news stands.
Then we took the T to Fanueil Hall and toured there and Quincy Market.
We walked form there through Boston Common, saw the State House, and the ice skating rink, and Muya walked on the ice over a pond for the first time ever.
We then walked up Newbury to the prudential building and went to the bar at the top with SPECTACULAR views of Boston to have a drink. Then we all took the T back to Davis where Mark lives and got a cheap dinner at Red Bones with good beer and too much meat according to Muya (I feasted on the portabella mushroom burger).
Yesterday Corynne and I took Muya to breakfast, then I drove with Muya through Grafton to see the vet school, stopped at Target with him to buy good souvenirs for his family, and then headed back to Connecticut. Muya took pictures of almost every exit sign along the way! We went to dinner at The Brewhouse in SoNo with some of my internmates last night.
Today despite the freezing rain we are about to leave for NYC for more sight seeing!
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