{"id":404,"date":"2005-02-01T23:17:29","date_gmt":"2005-02-02T07:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=404"},"modified":"2005-02-01T23:17:29","modified_gmt":"2005-02-02T07:17:29","slug":"me-and-my-big-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=404","title":{"rendered":"Me and my big mouth."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get email from time to time telling me not to give up on applying to medical school. Hah. Fat chance I&#8217;m going to try that again. I&#8217;m pretty frigging bitter already. A few more rounds of not getting in and I&#8217;d have to hurt someone. Anyway, that was all about TEN YEARS AGO and I&#8217;m pretty much over it. I had to find something else to be bitter about, and that&#8217;s my vestigial Master of Science in Computer Science. I&#8217;m now making less money than the 20-year-old high school dropout I&#8217;m working with and happy for it since most of the CS jobs are going off-shore and I don&#8217;t think I could find another job.<\/p>\n<p>After all the time and money I spent applying to medical school, I&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>So I know I need to get over it, but then what would I do? &#8220;Get on with your life,&#8221; right? Well, on with my life is serving as an example, a bad example, to others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get email from time to time telling me not to give up on applying to medical school. Hah. Fat chance I&#8217;m going to try that again. I&#8217;m pretty frigging bitter already. A few more rounds of not getting in and I&#8217;d have to hurt someone. Anyway, that was all about TEN YEARS AGO and I&#8217;m pretty much over it. I had to find something else to be bitter about, and that&#8217;s my vestigial Master of Science in Computer Science. I&#8217;m now making less money than the 20-year-old high school dropout I&#8217;m working with and happy for it since most of the CS jobs are going off-shore and I don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=404\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Me and my big mouth.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}