To my extreme sadness, my fourth year roommate, Melissa is leaving at the beginning of June. She matched to a Med/Peds residency in Michigan where she will be moving in just a few weeks with her boyfriend. In addition to the sadness of having to deal with Melissa leaving, this left me with another issue: I had to find two new roommates for the next school year. I really wanted to live with some girls who are nice.
With stealth and precision, I picked out my first roommate target several months ago. Andrea, one of my good friends from undergrad is also graduating this year. She told me earlier in the year that she was hoping to match in medicine in Seattle for her residency. I started immediately with the nagging, telling her that if she ended up matching in Seattle, she just HAD to live with me. I continued to remind her for several months what a wonderful house I lived in and would drop several not-so-subtle hints about how much I thought she would enjoy living there next year with me. She kept saying that she was going to look at other places, and that maybe she wanted to live in a different area, but we both knew they were heartless excuses.
In the end, Andrea match in medicine at UW in the Boise track. This means she will do her first year of residency in Seattle, her second year in Boise, ID, and her third year back in Seattle. She looked at some other apartments, but in the end she decided that she does want to live with me for the next school year! I think we are going to have loads of fun together (that is when we are both not crazy busy in the hospital, which probably won't be too often).
This is a picture of Andrea and Me taken last year. Andrea rocks.
But wait! The story is not over, because the search was still on for a third roommate. We finally found her in the form of an unsuspecting incoming first year med student named Liz. I have only met her once, but she was really nice and I think she is going to make a really fun third roommate for the next year. It will be fun to hear her experiences of first year as I am going through my thrid.
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