The 2011-2012 medical school interview season has begun, and today Sunny and I led our first admissions tour. We had a group of six female applicants (no guys!) who were very nice and easy to engage in conversation, which is a good thing. The highlight of giving (and receiving) these tours is a free buffet lunch at the Garden Room, a faculty dining hall. They serve delicious food, and today's lunch menu included butternut squash ravioli in pesto sauce and shrimp and potato bisque soup.
We forced the interviewees stay for dessert (okay, it wasn't too hard to convince them), but as a result we didn't leave the Garden Room until about 15 minutes after we were supposed to. Because we didn't want them to be late for their interviews, we gave them the world's fastest tour of the hospital and medical school. Both Sunny and I were breaking a sweat from sprinting down the hallways with the applicants in tow like a pair of rabid ducks and their ducklings. Can ducks even get rabies? I don't know. Whatever, it was worth it for the chocolate mousse.
Lessons learned for my admissions tour next week with Randy:
1. Order the desserts early so that it we don't have to wait for them to arrive at the end of the meal.
2. Don't wait for the hospital elevators between the hours of noon and 1pm. They will never come.
3. Just because you ate 80,000 calories at lunch does not mean you should try to exercise especially hard that evening. You will only end up throwing up in your mouth at the end of the workout.
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