Killing Time

I am anxious just reading your emails, it is an awful wait I know!

I got in the last year you were allowed to phone in. I had been under the impression that all the acceptances were mailed out special courier so that you would receive it on May 31st.... So when I arrived home from work my heart sank when there was nothing but then my neighbour mentioned that his friend had called in and received an acceptance but not received a package...

Soooo... I found my folder of applications and found my letter from Mac with their number on it... Kept getting a busy signal and FINALLY at 3 minutes to 5 pm (when the office was closing), I got through. The nice woman asked for my OMSAS number. When I gave it to her she paused for what seemed like forever and said "I'm sorry" -- this time my I think my heart was beating in my toes... So I said quivering "Umm is there any chance I'm on the waiting list?" Another long long pause... "No I mean I don't think that is your number!" It turns out I gave her my number from my application the year before! Fortunately it all turned out very well and I got in... It was nice to be able to find out by phone but I gather there may have been a mistake made that year and they decided it was much safer to just send letters like all the rest of the schools...

Anyways, best of luck to all of you. I really hope it works out well for all of you. I'll definitely be checking back regularly to hear the results and keeping my fingers crossed for you all.

Carolyn

Red Fox, I totally agree with you on this forum being a place for us to relate and share our anxiety! In fact, I've gotten so addicted that I can't even bring myself to continue with my general discussion (for my thesis) :P

In order to free myself from some of this state of agony, I decided to work everyday at my part-time jobs to keep busy.

How lucky they were to be able to check their status over the phone......(yes, I'm talking about you, Carolyn).

Hi Angela..I agree with you that nothing keep your anxiety less more than a work..."Busyness will not give the leisure time to worry"..to put you in the luckiness boat with Carolyn..Iam an international applicant, so if the McM would not reply via phone! it may take more than 2-3 weeks to have the answer, though I do trust in god that we will have the best for all of us..Just relax the good news in the way to you..all the best

Hi Red Fox,
Hope all is well and that you are dealing well with the final week (only a few more days to go!). I was at the April 6th interview - we chatted for awhile after it was all over! I still can't remember the name of the author/academic I was telling you about - hopefully I can let you know in person in September!

Anon:

Forgive me, but I spoke to a few people and I can't jog the convo exactly from my memory banks. My guess is that you are the older applicant pulling a Monty Pythonesque application to Med school: Now for something completely different! From Recreation, no? If you are who am I thinking of, its great to say hello and I wish you the very best.

Orientation at Mac starts in 3 months from today. The gladiola bulbs I put in the ground today should be finished blooming if we have a summer in Nova Scotia like the day we had today: 27 degrees. I am visualizing my first autumn in Hamilton, hoping its 2002. Good luck everyone who has the next week to cope with the waiting.

Hopeful in Halifax,
Red Fox

Red Fox:
That's me! Here's a little info on the stuff I was telling you about: It's called Memory-Work (An Alternative Research Method) - was first articulated by a feminist collective in West Germany. Frigga Haug, one of the members, has published/presented this work. I think it may be useful in your current capacity but I don't know about when you get accepted to Mac!! Hope to see you in September.