18 February 2011

Ohhhh Boy =)

The last several months have been a complete whirlwind, hence the lack of blogging throughout the entire interview/acceptance process. That being said...it went REALLY super fast. Allow me to provide you with a brief synopsis.

September 30, 2010, 11:15 pm: Hit the final submit button.
October 1, 2010, 10:00 am: Burst into tears because I thought some of my supplemental answers were crap and there was no longer anything I could do about it.
November 19, 2010, 9:45 am: Recieved the interview invitation email. RSVP'd for a morning interview on December 16, 2010.
 December 16, 2010 8:30 am: Interview day. Got there an hour early, met an AWESOME friend from SDN, interviewed (the fastest ~25 minutes of my life), thought I did awful, moped the rest of the day during the info sessions, tour, etc.
December 22, 2010 9:52 am: Got THE EMAIL. Best email ever. The one that begins with "congratulations."

And that was it. It was over almost as quickly as it started. Of all the emotions that took over that day, relief was the greatest one, followed by several brief moments of panic when I realized that now I have to go to vet school. But in reality I can't wait. I created our Facebook page, and have already spoken to many of my future classmates. I feel like a know a bunch of them before we've even met and I think we are going to have a totally awesome class. It's going to be a great mixture of people I already know, people I sort of know, people I've only met on the Internet, and people I've never seen in my life.

In the mean time, I'm trying to move past this pervading sense of senioritis. I have to pull off a C in physics this quarter, but other than that I could fail the rest of my classes and vet school would still be there when it was over. Now obviously I'm not the type to just go and do that, but it's hard to get motivated for some of the more dry classes in my schedule.

Thankfully, this quarter is three weeks from being over. Then it will be a fun spring break, ten weeks of spring quarter (with some AWESOME classes), and then a summer that will be spent in the clinic and in a truck. I can't wait.

So I think that's about it for now...I'm so glad that the admissions process is over for me FOREVER, and I wish those still waiting as well as those applying this upcoming cycle the best of luck. It's grueling, it's draining, and it's completely amazing. Enjoy it, because it really is over in the blink of an eye!