Salutations blog followers (to the few of you out there...)!
I'm exhausted, but not quite ready for bed yet so I thought I'd write a little ditty on here before I hit the hay.
First and foremost, STERLING WILL BE HERE ON FRIDAY!!! Excited? Oh yes.
However, I have an exam Monday morning and Tuesday morning. Excited? Oh NO.
Due to this, I have been studying like a beast this week. I had an exam on Monday (which I rocked btw... 43/45? I'll take it!) and since then I've been studying for my exams next week along with trying to get everything done that I need to get done before Sterling gets here. It'll happen tomorrow. Hopefully.
You know what really sucks? The exam next Monday is 25% of my grade! AHHHH!
Oh medical school.
*Le sigh*
On another note, I've had an interesting revelation about my future plans. Although I've always wanted to go to medical school, I've never really shown a particular interest in a particular path in medicine. In other words, I want to be a doctor, but I don't know what KIND of a doctor. However, while talking with Sterling about it not too long ago, he helped me by asking what kind of a doctor I DON'T want to be. Which turns out, I know quite well. I don't want to do pediatrics, obgyn, surgery, emergency, or primary care. That rules out a lot of the big hitters. I've always thought I would stick to a residency in Internal Medicine, but the next step wasn't clear until I realized what I'm the most interested in... and so Ladies and Gentlemen (although I don't think I have any male readers) I'm pretty (like 87%) sure that I am going to take the route of an Endocrinologist, and I am pretty excited about that.
So as of now, here is the Sandi timeline of events:
Now - 2013: Pre-clerkship classes and the first step of the boards
2013 - 2015: Finish PhD
2015 - 2017: Clerkships/Graduate with DO in May
2017 - 2020: Internal Medicine Residency
2020 - 2022: Fellowship in Endocrinology
In 2022 I will be 36. That is when I will be all finished with my "training"
Wow... this just got a little depressing! Here, maybe I should add some other things to the time line to make things look a bit better.
Now - 2013: Pre-clerkship classes and the first step of the boards
2013 - 2015: Finish PhD (we'll probably have all our undergraduate loans paid off by this time, so we'll start saving money for that house we'll buy down the road...)
2015 - 2017: Clerkships/Graduate with DO in May
Move back in with Sterling... start making babies like we're rabbits
2017 - 2020: Internal Medicine Residency (hopefully in an Army hospital in Germany or Italy!)
2020 - 2022: Fellowship in Endocrinology (back in the US at either a well funded Army Research Hospital or any plain old Research Hospital)
Buy a house and finally nest :)
Cure diseases
Win Nobel Prize
Retire and open up a doggie day care
Now, I'm not sure if things will go exactly like that, but I'm hoping they follow that general pattern. If I had things my way, I'd start popping babies out sooner. If Sterling is able to come back here at all before I graduate that is probably what will happen :)
Then I'll finally have my own kid to crochet for instead of this adorable little thing (my friend's baby Kinley)
I mean, every baby needs a pumpkin hat in October!
