Yesterday was the first day we could submit our applications for residency. The website went down at some point during the day and, by the time I returned from clinic, it provided a cryptic message that it was temporarily out of service and would likely be opened again at 9am today.
I reviewed my application one last time while pumping in the colposcopy room this morning. I sincerely hope that I (and my fellow supporters who were kind enough to read over my application) caught all typos; by lunch time, I couldn’t critically look at my personal statement at CV any longer. I hit “submit” at 12:48pm.
Now I’m just hoping. Hoping that programs will want to interview me, despite a less than ideal step 1 score. Hoping that I’m received well at interviews, that I appropriately show my passion for pediatrics and for the programs to which I’ve applied, that I appear confident without crossing the line to arrogance, that I show myself to be a capable future physician. Hoping that I’m overwhelmed with joy on March 20, 2015, because I was offered a job.
Please, wish me luck!
And, speaking of capable, look who keeps working to improve herself in the roles of big sister and helper, insisting on carrying her sister’s milk to daycare…
anna in med school 