Good News Today

Jen's Big Exam is over AND we have apparently won the house renting competition. All this good news in one day! Of course, the Big Exam is much bigger news than the renting. 16 hours of High Octane Medical Inquisition -- I am in awe of the whole thing.

Here's how medical school works: first, you study like mad for two years straight, with make-or-break exams every two weeks or so. When you reach the end of your two years, you hide yourself away to study for hours upon hours of the day every day for a month and a half.

At the end of the month and a half, you sit yourself down at 8am some morning and take an 8 hour test, 400 questions. Then you go home, go over the subjects you're a little foggy on, sleep, and get up and do the same thing. 400 more questions, 8 more hours. At the end they call time and you hand in your paper. In 8 weeks they tell you if you can continue on with your life as a doctor-in-training. And that's the first $100,000 of medical school.

Me, I'm quite proud of her and also quite happy that I don't feel any such unquenchable urge to be a doctor.