I rocked the shit out of precalc with my A+, and it's almost entirely due to the fact that the professor was extremely good at making the material understandable. It's great to see the difference a good professor really makes for people.
For my VMCAS App, it took at least two months to get my personal statement written. I had so many doctors from work look over it (multiple times) until I got it right. Still waiting on two evaluators to submit their letters for VMCAS.
The most annoying part was having to calculate my GPA in a million different ways. Last 30 credits? Last 45 credits? Last 70 credits? Science credits? Extra credits? Hah. I also need to, of course, submit transcript for Fall 2013 when I come to that part o' my life.
As far as the individual supplemental applications go...
Auburn: I had the greatest difficulty with this one, even though it was technically the shortest one. Their essay involved something like a cost/benefit analysis of the rising costs of a veterinary education, which was actually very interesting for me to read up on. I looked up the starting salaries for shelter, food animal, and research veterinarians across the US. It's crazy how much higher the starting salaries are on the west coast. It was also pretty disheartening to find that the debt you're left with after graduating veterinary school is 200% of your starting intern salary. Disheartening, but certainly not discouraging. Also, Auburn wanted a passport sized photo...and there ARE no photos of me, so I had to improvise last second with this gem:
How. AWFUL. I look like I'm a million years old.
Minnesota: Had no supplemental application. Take my money!
Missouri: Surprisingly enough, no essays. Just some fill ins.
Ohio: I feel like this was a bouncy application. I had to fill out different things in different places. Very roundabout way of getting things done.
Washington State U: This was the neatest application setup of all. I genuinely enjoyed filling it out. Very aesthetically appealing.
Virginia-Maryland Regency: Not entirely sure why it took me so long to get this one done. It wasn't that involved.
UPenn: Very short application, over in one single hit. And that's why it took me as long as it did to submit it, I guess. John Falco, an old friend (and co-eboard member from Rutgers) is at this school.
Cornell: Lots of essays that were mentally stimulating, only submitted this one about a week ago.
Tufts: :) Just submitted this application today. Finally completed all my essays and was able to get all my evaluator letters in. Had to send in my transcripts very last minute because I kept forgetting that Tufts and VMCAS aren't actually in communication with each other. Everything you do for VMCAS means nothing for Tufts. Everything's done individually.
Wisconsin: Waiting to be contacted in November regarding their supplemental application. That's also when you pay the fee.
North Carolina: Still working on this one. One more essay to go! NC's essays are also pretty involved.
Saturday, Alex, Nicki, and I went climbing at the gunks. Here's some photos Alex took of me.
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| We did the multipitch Three Pines. It's supposed to be three pitches, but because communication was bad because of caves, we turned it into four. Think this is me starting the first pitch of Three Pines. First pitch was the first run of the day and I haven't even been to the climbing gym this summer. Had some trouble here and there with placing my feet in positions I considered safe. |
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| Up the first pitch I go. |
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| My ass on the first pitch :) |
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| Nicki took these next two photos of me and Alex after all three of us were at the top of the first pitch. I forgot how to smile, apparently. At this point I was still super scared (the height thing) and it wasn't until after the third pitch that I got over the fear of heights. I started looking out (into the world) and even down a bit! |
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| Photos got out of order, but this is a different run we did after three pines. This one is apparently two pitches but someone said most people do it in one pitch. That's what we did. That's my dumb ass that wore a fleece sweater and got extremely uncomfortable. |
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| I have a really hard time with these open face things. Apparently, hanging suspended over nothingness makes me severely uncomfortable. |
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| Going around that bend was a traverse, but a terrifying one in which I constantly didn't know how to keep from just hanging on with my hands. Not very many places to put your feet when you're too scared to look down at them. |
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| From about where I am in this photo, to the rest of the way up, I was still shaking with fear from going over the face (traverse). I kept wanting to sit back on the rope and take a break but I was too scared to let go of the wall. |
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| This is Nicki, our fearless leader, leading the Horseman run. |
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| This is the third pitch of Three Pines. It starts with a very easy traverse and ends in a much more psychologically taxing one. Traversing over that overhang was probably the second most terrifying moment of the day, second only to having to do my first rappel down. |
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| Starting the last bit of that traverse. Honestly, getting over that probably took longer than getting TO it. |
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| Wrapping my right hand around the side of that was very psychologically taxing. The entire time I was entirely too aware of the WORLD and how much nothingness there was below me. I really, REALLY did not want to fall. |
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| Having gotten good hand-grips and mediocre footing, finally making it over to Nicki. |
Definitely cannot wait to go climbing again. Alex bought me my first harness, so now we can do more top-roping if we feel like it. Definitely cannot wait to go climbing again :)
I'll leave you with this picture:
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| Smelly dog on my bed. |
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