When I was applying to medical schools I received 4 interview invitations. The first was from the UW School of Medicine (my in state school) and the last was the University of Rochester School of Medicine in New York State (I applied there because I thought they had a very unique and innovated curriculum). I felt like my UW interview was a complete failure. It was a very stressful interview with 3 men firing questions at me from behind intimidating black notebooks. One of the interviewers never smiled or gave any sort of encouraging look during the interview. Probably everyone who knows me has heard about how I struggled to answer when the interview committee asked me why the UW school of medicine should accept me if I was going to just take their education and go to Africa instead of serving the disadvantaged in Washington State. Anyway, after the UW interview, I was sure I wasn't going to be accepted at UW bought tickets to go to all of my other interviews. However, 3 weeks later I was accepted to the UW School of Medicine and decided to cancel my University of Rochester interview (and leave for Africa on a great adventure!). The airline couldn't refund the money for my flight, but they gave me a voucher that I used to fly down to visit my friend Stephanie over spring break. We had a really fun time as the pictures below demonstrate .
Stephanie and I on one of the many beaches of San Diego.
Stephanie and I went "rock hopping" to look over the tide pools. We looked for the octopus, but he/she was not to be found. We did see some very interesting other sea life.
Another picture of the tide pools (the tide went out a little after this so we could get to more pools).
Stephanie also took me up to see a national monument for the dude that first discovered San Diego (Cabrillo). There was also a very cute lighthouse up near the monument.
We also went to Balboa Park and the San Diego Zoo. It was really fun.
Exhibit of medicinal plants.
This is Tony, Stephanie's boyfriend. He is extremely nice and a perfect match for Stephanie. He works for the Nokia phone company as a software developer. He carries at least two cell phones with him at all times and is very eager whip out the Google map function on his cell phone(s) if you ever need directions.
Stephanie and Tony together. Ahhh.... aren't they sweet?
Me and Stephanie together.... Ahhhh.... Warm fuzzy memories. My nose got a little sunburned while I was down in SD
Stephanie and I on one of the many beaches of San Diego.
Stephanie and I went "rock hopping" to look over the tide pools. We looked for the octopus, but he/she was not to be found. We did see some very interesting other sea life.
Another picture of the tide pools (the tide went out a little after this so we could get to more pools).
Stephanie also took me up to see a national monument for the dude that first discovered San Diego (Cabrillo). There was also a very cute lighthouse up near the monument.
We also went to Balboa Park and the San Diego Zoo. It was really fun.
Exhibit of medicinal plants.
This is Tony, Stephanie's boyfriend. He is extremely nice and a perfect match for Stephanie. He works for the Nokia phone company as a software developer. He carries at least two cell phones with him at all times and is very eager whip out the Google map function on his cell phone(s) if you ever need directions.
Stephanie and Tony together. Ahhh.... aren't they sweet?
Me and Stephanie together.... Ahhhh.... Warm fuzzy memories. My nose got a little sunburned while I was down in SD
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2 comments:
What? No socks?
:) I am so glad you came down. I miss you again already!
Hi Steph!
I decided not to supply my blog readers with more blackmail material than they already had by not posting the picture of the socks. Maybe it will get posted later. hmmmmm.....
I am really glad that I went down to see you. It was so much fun! I miss you already too! We need to hang out more sometime.
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