It's Here

          As I mentioned way back in this post, I have to determined, without any question, that I not only want an iPad... I need an iPad.

          Sure.  Maybe my reasoning was a little thin.  Maybe I made a few leaps of logic in a rather difficult attempt to justify a near $1000 luxury purchase... but I think I still managed to get there.  It's worth it.  I think.  Humor aside though, I do think I can make a convincing argument that an iPad will be very helpful in medical school.  I'm just not quite sure if it's a 700 dollar argument.

Robot Doctors In Our Future?

WE HAVE MOVED TO: A Theory of Living  

       I just read this article, concerned with the possibility of doctors one day being replaced by robots.  I thought it was very interesting.  I am a bit of a technophile, and the thought of an iRobot style world, with robots to help us with all the different aspects of our lives literally makes me giddy.  Seriously... how cool would that be?

Awesome, or scary?  Your call.

          So I was reading about iRobot (a robotics company, not the movie this time) and how they have put a 6 million dollar investment into the healthcare company InTouch Health.  iRobot recently developed Ava, a robot with a tablet (Android or Apple or whatever) for a head and a robots body.  They are hoping that this robot, the first step along the way towards personal robots, would be able to be used in a healthcare setting in the near future.  This could be something simple, such as following doctors to help them manage patients' information or vitals or whatever, to something more complex such as educating patients about their disease when other healthcare professionals are occupied.  I thought this was really cool!

Peyton

          Although it's been a long time in coming, Peyton Manning was officially released from the Colts today.  The press conference and his farewell speech were heartbreaking, upsetting enough that I can't actually recommend anyone watch it.   His voice was hoarse, and he was close to tears through the whole thing.  He was a stand up guy, though, and I really hope he does well on whatever team he ends up with in the next few weeks (hopefully not the Broncos or the Chiefs, two Raiders rivals that are apparently in the hunt).

Application Update - Two More Interviews

It's all about finding your fit.

          In the last month, I had two more interviews.  These were an interesting set, because they closely followed each other, and my feelings toward them were so different.

          Part of what has been interesting about this whole process is going to different schools and seeing what does and doesn't work for me.  Honestly, my way of thinking about schools has undergone a massive evolution over the course of this application cycle.  Now, I usually don't even bother asking about the things that were important to me at the first school or two I interviewed at, while I have discovered that a couple other key questions - that I originally never put much thought into - are extremely important.

Bora Wear

          My friend is starting a clothing company centered around African apparel.  Check out his website here.

          I think it's pretty ballsy for him to go straight from graduation to starting up his own company.  The shirts look pretty cool, so check it out!  I'll definitely be picking one out.

The Artist

          Last week, I saw The Artist with my girlfriend.  My mom and sister both raved about it to me and told me we absolutely had to see it.  I didn't know much about it, but I vaguely thought it might be the silent film.  On the way in we found out that not only was it a silent film, but it was also filmed in black and white.  I immediately assumed that anyone who liked it was being pretentious (now you know that neither my mom nor sister read my blog) and that it would be bad.

          And I was wrong.  This movie was very good.  My girlfriend and I both loved it, and we both went in there thinking that the silent film thing would be dumb.  We joked that we both wanted to dislike and came out as complete converts.   The story is great, and the silent film aspect adds a nice layer.  I felt like it caused the audience to be more engaged, as you had to make a little bit more of an effort to understand what was going on.  It was also just a nice change of pace, and some of the more dramatic moments came out really well with the actors "mugging" their emotions to us.

Rejection Season

WE HAVE MOVED TO: A Theory of Living  

 
       It would seem it's about that time of year for us pre-meds in our application cycles.  What time?  Yes.  Rejection season.  That time of the year when those 10 schools you haven't heard a peep from since they charged you 100+ dollars for their secondary (scam!), let you know that they aren't interested.

          I have been remarkably rejection free up until the last several weeks, having only received three until February (Georgetown, BU, and Cornell).  Yes.  Cornell was one of the first schools to reject me.  I have to make two admissions here.  First, I was never deeply interested in Cornell.  Second, it definitely still stung when they shot me down, since I went to undergrad there.