Scott’s Spiel

So I was quite surprised today by an email letting us know that the SSM1 choices were going up at 4pm and we had to select the ones we were interested in by 5pm on Friday. Unlike previous years there was no first-come-first-served policy (apparently) so no need to rush and pick them. I did that anyway.

We have to select 6 ranking them in preference from a list of about 20. My top preference is “An introduction to pain management” which is vaguely clinical and quite interesting. It only has 16 spots though so whether I get it or not is a different matter. My 2nd is an anatomy SSM which has 56 slots so if I don’t get the pain one I’ll hopefully get that. If not (gulp!) my 3rd is something about viruses. If that falls through (major gulp!) I could be doing Spanish or French or finally RBC antigens. The languages was quite a brave attempt for me, as I really dislike them. However, it’s useful at least so I wouldn’t mind doing them if I have to. Spanish was first as I know a little French already and my parents don’t know any Spanish (which was always a reason for not enjoying French!).

Have no idea when we actually find out what we’re doing. I’m hoping next week but I can’t see it happening. We don’t do this SSM till February so I was quite impressed with this organisation from the medical school. It’s certainly a change.

SRC interview tomorrow. At a difficulty on what I should wear. Probably end up going formal, though I don’t like it. Could be employed by my next blog post. Isn’t that scary!