Gonged

Well, today marks a new whoa in the medical school application process for me. I received two rejections in the same day. Most days I am frantically checking my gmail (yes this goes beyond just having the gmail window open at the bottom of my computer at work) and scrutinizing every new silent "ding" of my inbox. But today, I wasn't even thinking about med school news funny enough, and when I checked my email for the first time I received a rejection from Creighton. Not that I wanted to go to Nebraska and make friends with the corn fields or anything or get back to my Jesuit roots (haha) but it stings nevertheless. Not to mention the email assured me that I would also be receiving this notice in writing, in case anything about thanks but no thanks confused me.
The rest of my day went ok, except for the fact that starting at a glowing computer screen didn't exactly help the throb of my sinus pressure. Work was fine, I managed to stay almost 10 hours, in order to makeup some time I am planning on missing on Friday to leave early.
Then I arrived back home, only to open my mailbox and find one thin envelope. I knew it right then, this was gonna be a double dose. As I glanced at the sender's insignia, it burned even more. Albert Einstein...a private school in the Bronx...basically my top choice. A great school, and in New York. Not that I thought I had a good chance of getting an interview from them, but there is no way to feel good about a rejection, especially when it's from a geographic region of desirability :-(

Well, hopefully doing laundry tonight treats me ok, and at least I don't have to get up at 5:30 am like I did this morning...Oh yeah, and I am going to New York on Friday..wahoo!

P.S. Congrats to my cousin Kevin for getting into Nursing School at Columbia!