A new journey begins...

Well it did took some time for euphoria to settle down for me. Am little more relaxed now. Getting acceptance from UCSF was like a dream come true. Though getting a seat itself is a big big achievement but getting somewhere which you know is good and tough and you somewhere deep inside want it to happen is a great feeling. It had been a while like i was getting a lil impatient. Today i remember all my Teachers, friends back there in manglore and here who have always been there and helped me become what i am, shaped me through this journey. I am really really grateful to them.
Am just waiting for my Boston result and decided not to go for Newyork interview !
till then..

All the best folks...

Mail of my life !

IDP PROVISIONAL ACCEPTANCE LETTER

Pham, Mary to me

November 19th, 2007

Dear Dr. Kaushal Dhawan,

It was a pleasure to meet you during the recent International Dentist Program (IDP) orientation, interview and testing period on October 21-24, 2007. I sincerely hope that it was not too much of a stressful time for you.

It is my pleasure to inform you that the Executive Committee for Dental Admissions has granted you Provisional Acceptance to the 2008 entering IDP class. Candidates are admitted on a provisional basis pending fulfillment of additional requirements and submission of required documents. Your final acceptance depends on receipt of the required documents by the stated deadlines and verification of all documentation by the Admissions Office. You will receive more information about this in the coming days.

You are to be congratulated and commended on achieving an important milestone in your career and professional growth in the United States. We hope you will consider our offer and seriously commit to attending UCSF to continue your dental education and to receive your DDS degree.

If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to call our Dental Admissions Office at (415) 476-2739.

Again, congratulations and I look forward to seeing you with the new class.

Sincerely,

Mark D. Kirkland,
DDSAssistant Dean,
Clinic Administration andDirector,
International Dentist Program

All the best folks...

Ranveer Chandi and Sahil Goyal !

BU students, my seniors, my friends !

The Boston Chronicle 2 !

Well its the trip to boston which i had been long waiting for,the interview. It was a general interview, i know now lot of people wonder whats a general interview ? Well its the one where they just asked like why USA, why BU, why MPH and that too in which ever university you are, Do u want to do PG ? if yes which one? if no why, interests in research? where do u see urself in next 5 or 10 years ? ur hobbies? plans for future life etc etc. just stick to ur sop and be true thats what all i can say. Very nice and comforting people there. Anyhow the interview went fine, like i felt it went better than that at UCSF. I have high hopes, meanwhile the Texas school uff...heard that they had a tough written first essay and other questions, PFM crown prepration on maxillary molar and class 2 cavity on mandibular molar and a great interview.
Rest of trip was fine had a nice diwali...thanks to Sahil and Chandi bhai.
i wont tell anybody reading whts to see in boston but once u are there and could make it do go to bollywood grill ! had the best Indian food outside India there till now !
Had a rejection from UMN today...they say i don have enuf experience :-) maybe they are not lucky enuf to have me there..... Now its time for some acceptance to come ! Few of friend have got through USC, BU and UPenn, I am waiting patiently for mine, till then......
All the best folks...

The Boston trip...

Its gonna really really cold here...sitting at Chicago airport waiting to board my flight i just cant stop thinking about how far i have come, from that small railway station at Kankanadi to here. I don know why now maybe cos i have nobody at present to talk to. I am more relaxed and more apprehensive both. Relaxed in a way i know how an interview goes about, apprehensive well one always is when something big is at stake, its just that i wanna get into a dental school now....am i getting a lil impatient ? i guess so !
anyhow looking at different faces here at airport i am thinking how many of these am i going to see on interview day? All those student types look cool and relaxed i wonder whts going on in thier mind right now. I just pray to God and hope for the best.
Its time to board the plane ......

All the best folks...

Before the Boston trip.....

Its little more time before Boston comes in the way...started with the packing and preparing. Its the last interview...no more calls in hand for now, expecting from UPenn rightnow....NYU will call in Jan. So maybe if UCSF gives me a favourable response i might go back to India in December :-) just hoping for the best.
All the best folks...

The Sanfransisco chronicle !

Well its the city of the Golden Gate bridge. Reached here a day before my interview and test sessions, Stayed at suburb called Hercules. Excellent weather, very nice university....reminded me of old Goa...going up and down the hills with tightly packed houses. Only thing i didnt liked ...traffic. It is just too much, my sincere advice to those going ..don take a car, use BART thats the local train system there, easy and cheap. Anyhow the first day was written exam. We were told very basic but then it was of good standard...lots of prostho, perio and endo. So candidates with part 1 only read the decks before going. The next day was clinical exam where we were told to do 2 crown preparations. One upper and one lower molar in 3 hours, followed by lunch, orientation and the tour of the school. The final 2 days interview by 2 people one staff and one faculty. Interview was nice with only general questions...like i would say just basic interaction. Rest one day spent going around the city. the beach, golden gate park and bridge, china town etc. Left at a high note, i think i should make it to UCSF...but then who knows what God wants !

Now preparing myself for Boston interview !

All the best folks...

In the mean time....

Well i left Boston on a high note with all my senior friends saying my interview and crown cutting preparation satisfactory. Came back and started preparing for journey to Sanfransisco. Anyhow a night before we have this tornado coming and left us wondering what in morning.....

All the best folks...

The Boston Chronicle !

Well this is the start of my journey whos end i want somewhere in some dental school. I left Boston for prepration for my clinical exam at UCSF. This is really a nice city. Very cold and rainy here as such. Am glad to be here for i meet some of my old friends with whom i have spent some years of my UG in India. Sahil Goyal doing his DMD in Boston university takes a special mention...he is doing all the things even going out of way to help me..thanks Sahil ! Any how the city...lot to see and lot to do. The aura of 4 big universities in a city which i got to see...Harvard, MIT, Boston university and TUFTS. If thats not enough a hoard of nite clubs, multiplexes and lots of eating joints. The drive along Charles river... Anyhow the fun is unbeatable same like hostel morning to evenings working and the nights spent eating, going around and talkin and laughing ! Oh am enjoying it and missing a lot of my friends, i wish they were here with me !
Anyhow back to dentistry....i suggest all the people who havenot done much of crown cutting recently to atleast go and have a look...if u havent done it in last 6 months u have lost touch belive me. Try cutting atleast for once if u get a chance before u jump into the exam...
well thats for now......to be continued :-)

well...

I dont know whats happening, today got a call from Texas :-) but then again dates clashing wid that of Boston ! So now its again matter of great consideration. The earlier decision was simple but this one uff....like there are people who don get calls, there are ppl who get all the calls and there are ppl like me who get the calls but still cant go.....God is kind ! but i guess i have been really really bad !

Midwest completed with texas, last year called 25 for 10 seats am glad i made into there list, really encouraging.

Another mile stone !

well day had been of mixed feeling...started with a call from Boston university. Want me to come and join the interveiw band wagon on November 8. Felt happy that my application stands some place for university whose criteria is NBDE scores only. Well i confirmed that i am coming :-) and then later in the day recieved another call - USC. Was more than happy to read the subject of the mail- Invitation to attend the interview and clinical session ! But was half lived te dates clashing with that of UCSF. well tried everything to make USC people reconsider the dates, but nope, nothing. Anyhow it was not a difficult decision UCSF it is !
This completes whatver i had on west coast, now wondering why i didnt applied to UCLA !
Keeping my fingers crossed and waiting on east coast now...Boston ahs given me good hopes...maybe next is Upenn !

After a pause.....

Well its been some time since i pen down a few words...maybe so much was happening in so little time, either i was too up to get time to write or too low to even feel like writing.
What happened in mean time was i got a few good friends who are now too close to me..... then there was that trip to chicago by car...total fun maybe will put the fotos later. Anyhow the main stort :-P whats happening with my applications ? It was aterrible time to get a rejection from the very first university you applied with very high hopes...anyhow..it was a really depressing time.....not even one of my friend got the call from there :-( but we just hanged on to each other. And.....it was so unexpected like.........no other words somebody asked me ki kaunsi university jaa rahe ho? i had no answer and next day out of blue....The call from UCSF !! It made me so happy and so sad not one of my friend was again invited and i had no reason why not. All i think is i got invitation because of all the best wishes behind me of my family, parents, teachers and especially friends. ya ya too senti but belive me i know most of u r preparing or have done so just when you are at my stage you will know it.
As such the UCSF interview just 18 more days to go and i have no idea what to do !!! just hoping for best :-)
till then take care folks

What a meal

If i wud tell u i had dirty and wild rice and concrete ice-cream with espresso what wud u think !
well i had it ! and it was delicious !

A new Starting...

Hey ppl don get any new ideas...its a new starting of my application procedure. God i didnt knew SOP was going to be that sort of trouble...anyhow i realised how difficult it is to write ur own life on paper for smbody else to read.
Well with the first application sent i am on new gear, new road once again lets see where i land now !
And gosh i missed my flight today and u know the reason what damn rain ......it rained in lasvegas and there was a traffic jam ! i cudnt belive my eyes....like ppl started moving so so slow and all i cud do was to say tata to my flight....next time when in big city plz leave 2 to 3 hrs before u never know...

just for smile

http://tera-tera-tera-suroor.dotnetdelegates.com/
for himesh reshmaiya frnds..

the idiot concept....

Well it happens to everyone ...sometimes u get along so many ppl of same kind in a single day that u wonder whts wrong with the day. the world name those people idiots but then those are aslo of 2 types which i got to know today...

The natural insignificant idiot
and the resistant and significant idiot types.... who u shud avoid at any case

i am nt going to explain these terms as they are i think self explanatory and plz don ask me wht hapnd ?

finally

Well ...got the results...
Thanku God, my parents and my teachers and
thanks my friends for all the support
seniors say score good enuf to get in any good college :-)
finally......

The Colors of life....

Past few days it seems i have seen varied colours of life...
i don know wht life is teaching me but it goes smthing like this in colors...
the black of failure...
and the rainbow of happiness and success,
the blues of missing family and home.....
and the bright red of meeting or making a very nice friend,
the greys of hard struggle....
and the pinks and goldens of that struggle getting rewards,
most importantly the white of being patient and praying....
and the discovery of the color unknown !

Relaxing after exam..

well the exam over its time to relax catch up wid sm old friends and travel. Now here in Las Vegas, a big glittering city but when u live here for long u come to know the ground realities also which are not much differnt from any other big crime infested city. Any how why to bother about that part... city is pure fun if u r in mood for it and got the few necessary bucks to spend.

Ha one last thing my room mate got cool 89 for part 1 NBDE am just waiting for mine to come.. he and all say it will be better but u know as it happens i keep on remembering wht all questions i did wrong and guess what insomnia for last 2 days :-) am just praying !

the last post i think b4 thr NBDE 1

Wanted to write but surprisingly everytime i thought so it appeared i could read a few more points extra, a small topic or 2-3 mcqs and it just kept on going so i believe this is the last post b4 exam. Now i feel nothing or same like just b4 giving the final university exam or the GRE or the american visa interview :-) till now its been ok for me so it will be this time too. i thank all my friends again for being such a great support especially lallu,tamatar, pilpili, satti, aku, gari di and all.

Now its me, the exam and God ( i think on my side ) ! lets see

a small thing in last i want to thank ppl who invented maggi, top ramen, egg omellette or any other dish of egg, corn flakes, millions of cows and buffalos who give us milk and last but not the least the bread makers. Without these i wud have starved and this prepration wud not have been whts it today

and ha i have been sleeping thruu the day and up all nites how to correct it now ! oh God sm help here too

sometimes it happens....

Many a times it happens people you have never met or think you have left long and far behind cross your path over and again in this journey of life. Is this coincidence ? or is it something else...well i have no answers.

Tales of an unspoken fun, A path so vague;
its not bothered,
You’re on one, And I’m there on the other,

It can be special at times because sometimes, these people that cross your paths in life actually teach you things you were never aware of. Might be a lesson in a easy, quick and simple way or a long drawn hard class. But i guess the joy should be not so much that you get lost and forget that they are just the fellow journey men and u never know till when you are on same path.

It happened to me....and i am thankful to God for it did strenghten my confidence. I have no fear now for what the future holds...i just think or rather believe its good !
For my long lost and newly found friends...

Who knew Fate’s wrath,
Who knew Cupid’s darts,
Who knew that in a cross path,
Where we met was where we part.

( not my lines ! )

frankly speaking NBDE is not that difficult !

guess what????

i feel i am ready... ready to go !

Time....

Its time !
May gone June has come. These days are really testing my nerves. One sincere advice don do crack the nbde or kaplan test now in last days they are tough and can bring confidence real down. just go on reading. I am glad i got a really supportive family and friends but still some where deep inside i twitch what if i am not up to expectation leave mine but of family and friends. Today i understand the burden of expectation !

Inspiration coming thick and large...

Well just recieved the news my roommate of undergraduation made ot to AIMMS. along with 3 more class mates. Rank 2, 3,4 isnt it cool and inspiring. We always had been competiting in UG for better marks and ranks and now its time to get going in groove again. He can do it there so can i here...

The final run...

Finished with the course today everything atleast for the name sake even..and now the final dash to the end point just revision. Don know will make it or not...i guess its the time now to reconciliate all my feelings and just conc. on one point. gosh what to say...

Another usual day...

Well well as they say another day gone. Mind knows that you have put a lot of effort today but some kind of anesthesia inside wont let you feel anything. you don feel good or even bad or shaky, nothing, nothing at all. Whats happening?

the loner...

it doesnt matter what i think and look to, all you ppl are so helpful and supportive but i know its my battle alone at the end which only i have to face....

Just 2 small thots...

1.) Wht good a friend is if they tell you get to talk to me only when you work and study hard...
2.) I studied sleep physiology today 1 hr of theory and 2 hrs practical does that mean i know it all now?

diffident pandemoniums.....

For a friend...i got today

Delimma !

One by one the days are passing, min by min i am travelling to the long awaited point, but it feels sometimes that isn't it a lil early? shud'nt i wait a lil more before taking the dive....One point it feels what the f%$# man is this my life? what am i doing here? but then the effort of all the people behind my effort comes in and here i am again ....
Kya yaar ye physiology itni boring kisne banai kuch karo iskaa....!

Something old but which still counts...

tits bits from a long back written note:-
Ok ok lot of leg pulling, ab kuch acchi baat....We had a great time together and a lot of fun especially playing the gallery.... in the bus ( remember sitting on last seat in full winter even when full bus was empty).....I don't know about you but i will always remember you for all the pjs especially the chur chur...... and if you ever feel bad or sad just remember all of this time we spent togather laughing and enjoying and remember me you will feel better...and please apne jokes kisi ko mat sunana....
All the best for your life ahead, i know you will do great.
and ha what a great name pilpili 7210 kabhi ghar wale bhi nai soch sakte itna accha naam...

a reason to smile

well i coudnt stopped smiling it made my day so here its for all my friend who were not lucky to see on first go...Thanks Beenu !
http://www.makkadman.com/index.php?refer=friend

The importance of friends...

I guess this is the effect friends have on you. You drop down or are feeling low, talk to them and TA-DAAA!! one is up again as if nothing happened all set to face this world again. Happy after forgetting all those sad memories or any trouble what so ever.

I think thats the magic of friendship and i am glad to have those magician friends who have always stood beside me though being so so far away.

Some how i feel good and think i will make it...

the conflict within

This is the time or simply now i know that -Doubt can lead to all the anxiety, frustration, and fear especially of failure, something you desire so much or you just carve for. All of these feelings can short-circuit our confidence . A sense of insecurity hangs but we just keep on going...

exactly one month

Today i stand at this point. i still don know why i am writing this,
a lot is left and a lot more to go but then, i feel like putting my feelings down someplace atleast,
i feel more of scared than nervous, everybody says i am going to do good or even great but then i don feel it. I ask the almighty for help and guidance and look to my family and friends for support for this exam is turning out to be a real test not only of knowledge but i think character that who stands up and tall.
Still doing decks for the first time along with previous papers ...

Hello all my friends.....

Well this is a small effort to bring us all together, sharing all the times we had together and whats going on now !