So I feel like dishing on why things are falling into place for me. (Long!)

Geekchick921

It has to do with applying to school.  Two problems that were REALLY stressing me out have fixed themselves.

Schools prefer a composite letter of recommendation as your primary, but I wasn?t sure I?d be able to get one because I took most, but not all, of my prerequisites at my alma mater and I didn?t ask right after I finished the requirements, but I met with my advisor last week and he is going to organize one for me.  I just have to collect the writers (bio, chem., physics, and a non-science professor).

My psychology and physics professors had promised me glowing letters, so those were covered, but I was having trouble getting in touch with my chemistry professor (he left to get his PhD).  He finally got back to me after almost a month and two different e-mail addresses (I finally had to poke him on Facebook).  He apologized for taking so long, said I was a great student and promised me a strong contribution to the composite letter.  The other problem was I took general biology back in 2003/2004, and I didn't think my professor would remember me at all.  My advisor assured me that she would, so I e-mailed her anyway.  She got back to me yesterday that she DOES remember me; she's thrilled I'm applying to medical school, and she'll write me a pretty contribution and send it to my advisor.  Phew!

While I was waiting for my one professor to get back to me, I contacted my chemistry professor from Penn State, which was the only other place I took any of the prerequisites.  I haven't talked to him since I finished the class (our wedding was a week after finals, I was pregnant, we moved, etc.), so I wasn't sure if he'd write me a letter.  But I did something unprecedented in his class which he remembered.  He promised me a strong LoR, too.  His will be separate from the composite but it will be nice to have an extra one that's separate.  I'm also getting one from my manager from when I worked on the nursing floor.  She loved me and it's where all of my clinical experience is from; it?s a good thing to have.

The other problem was that I don't have a lot of research experience.  I tried to get a research job but since my degree is in theatre I think I never got a serious look at just about every job I applied to.  All I have is an independent research project that was done in conjunction with a class I took back in undergrad.  I remember the gist of it, but one of the times my computer broke and I got a new one I lost the file of the lab report.  Crap!  I'm sure it'll come up in interviews, so, on a wing and a prayer, I e-mailed the professor (the psychology one that?s contributing to my letter) to see if there's any chance he has a copy of it.  Miraculously, he keeps a copy of all of the research projects from that class. 

I thought I was SoL, especially with the research project and the biology professor (and I was starting to feel this way about chem, too), but apparently not.  It's things like this that really make me feel like I'm choosing the right path.  Thank God!

Lucky_Dragonfly

thats great!!

jenerally?

great news!

Geekchick921

Thanks, ladies.  It's a HUGE load off my mind.  I can't even tell you.