I get email from time to time telling me not to give up on applying to medical school. Hah. Fat chance I’m going to try that again. I’m pretty frigging bitter already. A few more rounds of not getting in and I’d have to hurt someone. Anyway, that was all about TEN YEARS AGO and I’m pretty much over it. I had to find something else to be bitter about, and that’s my vestigial Master of Science in Computer Science. I’m now making less money than the 20-year-old high school dropout I’m working with and happy for it since most of the CS jobs are going off-shore and I don’t think I could find another job.

After all the time and money I spent applying to medical school, I’m not taking down the web site I put up with all my rejection letters. People ask me what I did wrong and the answers are all there. I did a lot of things right, and the medical schools I contacted even told me they had NO idea why I didn’t make it off of the wait list. The last rejection letters I received were AFTER classes had begun at Creighton University, St. Louis University, and Case Western Reserve University. OK, maybe Creighton sent the letter a little earlier. I can’t remember that far back. But I do know I was looking at the calendar and even called the schools to ask when classes started.

So I know I need to get over it, but then what would I do? “Get on with your life,” right? Well, on with my life is serving as an example, a bad example, to others.