And you are...

Now I'm no overachiever or some shining med student with a "save-the-world" complex that I fill my every waking (and sleeping) hours with numerous altruistic projects. Nor am I a complete slacker (tho some days, I absolutely feel like it and would gladly welcome a slacker lifestyle). I am your average medical student, just getting by, busily and "faithfully" placing my nose to the grindstone, cramming my head with medical minutiae, hoping that in the end, I would understand all of it, that I would be a competent physician and a credit to the medical community, that I was worth investing $180,000/4 years into.
That being said, I always feel so weird trying to get other people to say good things about me. Case in point, my number 1 task this week: collecting letters of recommendation. Some doctors I've asked were easy to approach, especially if I've just finished a rotation with them a few weeks ago. Others, not so much because it was earlier in the year and I didn't get to spend a whole lot of time with them. Now, why, you ask, am I asking these other doctors whom I barely got have face time with? Simple: They're good doctors, and I learned a lot from them. The only problem is that, they are so busy with many other students going through their service that it's difficult for them to keep everybody straight, let alone remember. You either have to suck majorly or be Doogie Howser, MD, or be some sort of Extreme example of something in order to stand out in their minds. Fortunately/Unfortunately I'm neither, hence my dilemma. I've put out requests for LOR, but I fear that some of these docs would write an average paper because they barely remember me. Still, I gotta try.
For now, I'll just go back to hitting the books hard and pray that the next time I'm on rotation, I'll be a much brighter student worthy of remembering. Or I could just get a mohawk, dye it agent orange, and call it a day.

Song of the day: "The Curse" - Josh Ritter


An extraordinary song to cheer up an ordinary med student.