05-16-2010, 10:51 PM
Thanks all, it\'s been a long time coming but it seems my ability to postpone adulthood is at an end. Starting in July (all new residents start in July; don\'t get sick in July), I\'ll be across the country in New York, beginning my training in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital.
The residency selection process makes college football recruiting seem almost civil; chairmen promising you the world, then bolting for the next hot job; offers to interview being made, then rescinded if you don\'t respond within 10 minutes; having to tie knots one handed while answering questions about your greatest inadequacies; being told you\'re at the very top of their rank list, then talking to your friend who interviewed and heard the exact same thing. Thankfully I survived this process, and ended up at probably the best program I interviewed at, one where I rotated for a month in September and loved.
Also, I will trade free nosejobs or tonsillectomies for slingbox streams of Stanford sporting events. No DirecTV in Manhattan means I\'ll be watching 1994 Mets season recaps on whatever Fox Sports affiliate they have out there otherwise.
The residency selection process makes college football recruiting seem almost civil; chairmen promising you the world, then bolting for the next hot job; offers to interview being made, then rescinded if you don\'t respond within 10 minutes; having to tie knots one handed while answering questions about your greatest inadequacies; being told you\'re at the very top of their rank list, then talking to your friend who interviewed and heard the exact same thing. Thankfully I survived this process, and ended up at probably the best program I interviewed at, one where I rotated for a month in September and loved.
Also, I will trade free nosejobs or tonsillectomies for slingbox streams of Stanford sporting events. No DirecTV in Manhattan means I\'ll be watching 1994 Mets season recaps on whatever Fox Sports affiliate they have out there otherwise.