Tuesday, December 30 2014

After overcoming a decade of depression that had left my academic and family life in shambles I have come a long way in the last five years tenaciously and assiduously removing myself from the negative elements in my life and bringing in positive influences. Currently I am in the process of trying to pursue my goal to become an medical doctor in the US. This blog is designed to be a journal to log my daily activities and a place for quiet time in the evening to honestly reflect on the day's events.

Things I need to do

• Special Master's Program (SMP) applications
• EMT class payment
• Lab data analysis
• Lab writing for publication
• Look for volunteer work at clinics
• MCAT tutoring position

SMP applications

• Personal Statement
• Professor 2 needs information on what I've done in the interim as leverage for the letter of recommendation (LOR).
• Professor 1 needs personal statement as well as correspondence.
• Start applications, there are more blanks than PS and LOR.

EMT Class 

• Call, ask. 

Lab data analysis

• Mass-spec (MS) data analysis
• Review original oligonucleotide sequence material ordered

Lab writing for publication

• Format everything to specifications, worry about editing after format is in place

Look for volunteer work at clinics

• Clinic for homeless, visit
• Community healthcare provider, visit
• Ask Kelly for references
• Look into NYU internship as well as hospital in Brooklyn

MCAT tutoring position

• Prepare for interview, deadline Friday.
• EK verbal
• EK self-assessment verbal + write my own explanations for them.

Right now it is 3PM. I have about 2 hours until I have to pick up my girlfriend from work. I have been reading fantasy novels in the morning. 

I will read MCAT tutoring pdf sent by the company. In the evening I will finish my personal statement.

I hesitate before reading an inanimate document? But shouldn't I be excited about learning something new, there is a thrill in expanding one's mind. The experience is rewarding and worth more than the disappointment of being wrong.

I hesitated and was about to procrastinate but I am glad I didn't. I will have to read the packet again, ponder, annotate and address the fact that I don't have a strategy for verbal by reading EK's verbal but I am one step closer to getting this job done than I was when I was dawdling.