I'm writing this on my phone from a hotel room in Baltimore. I don't really have anything to say. I just wanted to try and see if this would work.

This is a strange time for me. Medical school is winding down and the prospect of residency is looming with every free lunch and hospital tour (I always pay attention to 2 things: the cafeteria and the call rooms. (Food and sleep, or whatever bits of both that I can hope for. Of course.)) So far so ambivalent. I can barely tell the programs apart, and it doesn't seem like such a big deal where I might end up. Haha, we'll see if I feel the same way on Match day.

Let's see, highlights from adventures in interview-traveling:

Virginia: Rhea's roommates had a houseparty the night before my interview. Hollywood vs. Bollywood til 3AM.
Jacksonville: No shampoo in the hotel. Bar soap cleans everything, right?
LA: "Because Chicago is under a weather advisory, we may need to divert to Kansas City or Indianapolis and stay there overnight."
Baltimore: "I'm not saying that you shouldn't come here... [but don't come here]"

Don't worry. But it's kind of fun to visit all these places and wonder which one of these might work. Hopefully, in a month or so, I'll be sick and tired (or sicker and tireder) of interviewing and will be happy to stay in one place for the next five years. And by one place, I mean the hospital because I'm never leaving that place. It is surgery residency, after all, no matter where I go.