Getting into Medical School, aka Holy of Holies (the F-1 version)

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I am a 22 yr old Foreign lady trying to get into an American med school. The journey has been "rough" to say the least. So join the band wagon and let's see if they think I'm good enough to become a doctor. I hope my story encourages someone, maybe you. Not necessarily to become a doctor, but just to follow your dream. Leave your comments as you read...I thrive on feedback. And if this is your first time here, catch up on what you missed, cus every post IS important...well almost all. So forget that board meeting(at your own risk) or skip that class (again at your own risk) and lose yourself in my archives. REMEMBER: "If it aint ROUGH, it aint RIGHT" - Richard Hamilton, Detroit Pistons Guard

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Four Memes

Ok was tagged by Bijoux, Naija Bloke, Biodun and Belle...here goes

FOUR JOBS YOU'VE HAD IN YOUR LIFE

- Cafeteria worker (worked here for 4.5 long yrs...paid off though, free food and eventually worked up the "corporate" ladder to supervisor)
- Junior Hygiene Conusltant (scrubbing toilets and kitchenettes at 6am while my mates were off in Cancun for spring break)
- Chef's Assistant (did a PhD student's dirty work for a semester, alone in the lab for 3 hours...can't complain, paid very well by college standards)
- I liked being a Chef's Assistant so much, I'm currently doing it again...this time for more money though.

FOUR FICTIONAL/DREAM JOBS YOU WISH YOU HAD
- CEO of a certain Biotech Company- working on it...well kinda
- Stephen A Smith's job (talk a lot of crap and get away with it...but I'd probably do better writing the crap than saying it)
- NFL Quarterback - the adrenalin rush has to be crazy!
- The first 5'3" (arguably 5'4") supermodel in the world

FOUR MOVIES YOU COULD WATCH OVER AND OVER AGAIN
- Shawshank Redemption (Amazing Story)
- Antoine Fisher (Another Amazing Story)
- Love Actually (tear jerker)
- The numerous Sanaa Lathan, Morris Chestnut, Taye Diggs etc movies (The "awww-so-sweet" collection)

FOUR CITIES YOU'VE LIVED IN
- Lagos, Nigeria
- "Ends of the Earth", MI
- Abbeyville, US
- Small Town, MN
(Sorry...this anonymity thing is a pain)

FOUR TV SHOWS YOU LOVE TO WATCH
- Girl Friends
- Sex & The City
- House MD
- Grey's Anatomy
The "they-also-ran" category: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Law & Order SVU, The Sopranos(there's something about Tony), Flavor Flav(there goes my rep), Nip/Tuck, ESPN's talk-crap shows...

FOUR PLACES YOU'VE BEEN ON VACATION/TRAVELED TO
- Ijebu-Ode (My home town)
- New York City
- Atlanta, GA
- ....yeah...haven't travelled much for vacation, the first time I sat in a plane was when I was coming to the US for school!

FOUR WEBSITES YOU VISIT DAILY
- msn.com
- emails (approx 200 times a day)
- blogspot.com
- my med school pages
The "they-also-ran" category: Forbes.com (amazing entrepeneur stories), my financial institutions...

FOUR OF YOUR FAVORITE FOODS
- my rice dishes (jollof, fried, concoction, etc...I see every meal as an opportunity to eat rice)
- University of Lagos (UNILAG) Suya
- Pounded Yam & Okro soup...with every kind of meat under the sun
- Indian Food
The "they-also-ran" category: Mr.Bigg's Fried Rice and Meat Pie, Burger King Whopper...

FOUR THINGS YOU WON'T EAT/DRINK
- Members of the fungi family
- The random vegetables they put in my CHICKEN Lo-mein (when I say chicken, I mean chicken only!)
- Blood
- Humans
(But I never say never, it's all fun and games until you're stuck in the desert with nothing to eat or drink)

FOUR THINGS YOU WISH YOU COULD EAT OR DRINK RIGHT NOW
- UNILAG Suya
- Pounded Yam and Okro Soup
- one of my rice dishes
- BBQ Spare Ribs

FOUR THINGS IN YOUR BEDROOM
- The usual - bed, dresser, etc
- Not enough shoes
- Too many hair products
- Nothing really interesting

FOUR THINGS YOU WISH YOU HAD IN YOUR BEDROOM
- A clapper light switch (sucks to have to get up to turn off the lights)
- I guess a maid might be nice too
- More Shoes
- The right hair product!!

FOUR THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW
- Yellow t-shirt
- Black shorts
- Period Paraphenelia...ewww...sorry, was working from the head downwards, it was next in line
- I'm at the feet right now and I'm not wearing any shoes

FOUR PLACES I'D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW
- Nigeria
- In med school
- Back in 1997ish, on the stool in front of our TV playing "Street Fighter II Turbo" on SNES with my siblings (Shhooooow u ken)
- Back in college...already missing it.

FOUR FICTIONAL/DREAM PLACES I'D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW
-In some operating room somewhere doing like ten surgeries at thesame time, with all the patients in some kind of trauma and me the only doctor for miles that can do anything about it...and one by one, I patch them up and save the day...all without losing a step and within 1o seconds...again all for the adrenalin.
- On TLC's What Not To Wear...wait that will mean I have no fashion sense...Ok I just want the 5Gs to go shopping
- That pretty much covers it.

FOUR PEOPLE YOU’D REALLY LOVE TO HAVE DINNER WITH
- My whole family at one table
- My closest peeps
- All the people on my ABBEY MAGNET List that I have never met before...each one discussing what makes them tick and me taking furious notes with one hand and removing the brocolli from my lo-mein with the other

FOUR THINGS YOU ARE THINKING RIGHT NOW
- I really should be sleeping...
- This tag thing was harder than I thought
- How can I make those people at work miss me when I leave next year
- What to write for my last secondary essay
- Why I'm filling out another secondary
- I really need to cook something
- How to make money while I'm asleep
- How to use this new witty phrase I just came up with in a post before I forget it...

FOUR OF YOUR FAVORITE THINGS
- Family
- Food
- Shopping
- Lazy Weekends
And last but not least from the "that's-so-cheesy" collection: MAKING SOMEONE'S DAY

FOUR PEOPLE YOU TAG
Hasn't everyone done this already?

( I'm doing like Bijoux and not exactly sticking to the rules...peer pressure!)


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10 Comments:

Blogger Cherub (former Bijouxoxo) said...

LOL @ doing like Bijoux. So if i jump into 3rd mainland bridge lagoon, will u follow? Clapper light switch sounds kinda cool, abeg if u find one, don't forget me. My temporary solution to that, is using a meter rule to flick the switch on/ off while still lying in bed. O gal, we gats to yarn for real. U know ur chef's assistant job u're doing now, do they need a replacement for next yr when u leave? I'm so interested o, please lemme know and gimme the necessary details and contacts. I'd e-mail/ call u or IM u by this weekend.

October 26, 2006 1:37 PM  
Blogger ABBEY said...

peer pressure is very powerful...you just never know lol.

as per the light switch...mine is way on the other side of the room, i'll probably need like a 3m long rule to get to it.

And call me whenever to talk about the job. How I got it is quite a long story which I shd be posting pretty soon.

October 26, 2006 2:44 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

LOL at Junior Hygiene Consultants - Havent we all? That seems to be the baptism of everyone working in the diaspora.

LOL at Clapper light switch amd a maid. Not asking for too much at all.

How to make money ehile you're asleep? Do let me in on that when u discover how. LOL

October 27, 2006 3:29 AM  
Blogger ABBEY said...

sure will...there are actually ways to do that(stocks, mutual funds, etc) but i'm thinking other less expensive/risky means...i'll holla when i discover how.

thanks for stopping by.

btw...have u been tagged?

October 27, 2006 8:29 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Abbey, nice blog, I'm also an aspiring medical student. What's the name of the biotech company you wish you were CEO of? I have some experience in that field.

Cheers

October 27, 2006 11:18 AM  
Blogger ABBEY said...

well right now...it's one of the one's in cali(i guess that's where they all are) ;)

but have u worked for them before? i'm hoping to do some internships during my first summer in med school...we'll see if i'm still interested then.

thanks for stopping by.

October 27, 2006 11:37 AM  
Blogger ABBEY said...

thanks overwhelmed...i probably would have appreciated the notebook too but it was overhyped before I saw it so my expectations were too high. It was beautiful though.

and as for what not to wear...i thought of doing a set up with my friends where they videoed me for a month or so with all kind of fashion blunders and then sent it to clinton and stacey(?)...

October 27, 2006 5:14 PM  
Blogger NaijaBloke said...

Which one be this anonymity thing sef... we talk say talk abt ya sef u dey do anonymity again.

Na everybody like suya for this blogsville.No worry I dan dey make plans to import one hausa man come this side start suya joint... LOL

Nice answers ..take care dear

October 28, 2006 11:18 AM  
Blogger ABBEY said...

lol...seriously you will make money with that kind of plan.

But yeah as for the anonymity...na so we see am for now oh.

October 29, 2006 2:01 AM  
Blogger archiwiz said...

For real???? SNES??? I remember those from way back...along with Microgenius and Atari games....hmmm I guess childhood never really leaves one.

November 02, 2006 12:13 AM  

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