peds.

Said goodbye to by pediatrician of 10+ years today, but not before her typical lecture about sunscreen, seat belts, and drinking enough milk. Yes, I admit I’ve finally grown too old for sitting in waiting rooms surrounded by coloring books and aquariums. And yet, I can’t shake the feeling that I’m really still just a kid.

nostalgia

Aw shucks. The deluge of homecoming pictures on Facebook are to blame. I have a sudden craving for skim mocha with black & white cookie sprawled over the day’s Chronicle in Von der Heyden… And maybe also a book on Plato or two with my trusty macbook which has since died and gone to heaven, taking my four years of college education along with it. My brain already feels rusty.

still on "summer break"

Back from a 2wk vacation to Seattle, Vancouver, Portland, and San Francisco. Highlights include:

Seattle city lights as viewed from atop Kite Hill in Gasworks Park (not my photo, click though for source)

The best lunch ever at Meat and Bread in Vancouver, BC

Bernal Heights in San Francisco

Tandem biking across golden gate bridge - quite the adventure and narrowly avoided crashing on numerous occasions.

The atmosphere on the west (or as natives like to call it, the “best”) coast is certainly alluring. Old flannel shirts paired with Raybans walking down the street in Portland, a bustling Taqueria next to a trendy minimalist cafe with every table top adorned with macbook airs, intellectual owners in tow. To be honest, I’ve never before pictured myself there, my sense of identity too wrapped up in the prep and tradition of the east coast to consider something so drastically different. But maybe I will surprise myself. San Francisco is just chilly enough for my love of scarves and chunky sweaters, but close enough to warmer and sunnier shades of Cali for comfort. Someday, if life happens to take me there, I suppose I won’t be opposed to the idea.

For now all thats left to do is wait. I’m halfheartedly reading up on business strategy and accounting basics but actually too anxious about the prospects of Boston, mcat scores, new friends, and all that comes with this new job to retain much of what I am reading. ahhhh.

Limbo

“Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.” - Don Draper.

My summer of MCAT came thankfully, to a close last week. Hopefully that is the last standardized test I will have to battle for a while. Since then I’ve just been doing a lot of sitting and watching Mad Men and marveling at the fact that I no longer have to be memorizing organic chemistry mechanisms, while anticipating the big move to bean town.

Its hard not to get lost in the future when you’re stuck in the in-between. Most of my friends from college have already moved on to their new jobs or started med school, law school, grad school, and somehow I still find myself at home, where things never seem to change.

Fall.

Craving autumn leaves, chunky sweaters and brown leather boots on the way to Harvard Sq. with a hot cup of Starbucks kind of weather.

Its been a rough summer. T-10 days, its a sprint to the finish, everyone. Here’s to that long awaited finish line and the light at the end of the tunnel, until the next major standardized test to take on the road to becoming a doctor. It’ll all be worth it soon enough!