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