Sunday, May 30, 2010

Green Spring Warming

Last night my roommate John and I spontaneously decided to go for a hike. We invited some friends in the ward and took off. We went to Stewart Falls. The hike is about 2 miles and you start from the parking lot at the trailhead for Mt. Timpanogas just above Sundance. It was nice to get back to nature. Spring is just barely arriving in the mountains. I plan to go on a more extensive hike tomorrow for Memorial Day. It's sort of become a Memorial Day tradition.



















I had a pleasant surprise on Tuesday. That was the day I finally got my MCAT scores back. I had been anxiously waiting for them to be released for a month and I really did not know what to expect. The last hour of my cell biology class was really just wasted time. I could hardly pay attention to a thing my professor was saying. When I finally got home and saw the score - 37P - I was startled but very pleased. In all of my practice tests I had never scored higher than 32-33. No more studying for the MCAT. I honestly didn't study as well as I should have, so maybe I got a little bit lucky. I'm grateful for my luck and that I can move on with my medical school application. Acceptance rates for my score and GPA are around 30%, so by no means is getting into medical school a done deal.

Speaking of which, I really have no clue where I want to go. While talking with my doctor this week, he said with my MCAT I should apply to a few of my dream schools, other good schools, and then to a few backups. I was thinking, "And what are my dream schools?" The only factors that I currently use to differentiate between schools is location, tuition, and rankings. I know rankings often misrepresent or fail to represent things that matter most to me however.

Friday evening was the night for night games. The ward played capture the flag. I enjoyed it until no one could find the flags. Then we tried some other games and they were a bust. I met up with Jimmy and Nicole's posse later to play Commando. It was all right. I don't think I liked it too much because it's a game that makes you run like a maniac and hide like a frightened animal. It was a little too frantic for me. Plus I injured myself earlier in the night and I kept on making it worse through the evening. At one point I fell to my face on the ground, but my fist was under my chest. It sent pain up and down my trachea and made my breathing sensitive for a few minutes.

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