Back from Beantown
Usually the best thing I can say about my intercontinental flights is that I made it... no small feat considering some of the near misses, frequent mishaps, and all too common delays at airports around the globe when I am present. My recent return flight from the States was a pleasant exception to the trend, something I am going to attribute more to the fact that I had a great trip to Boston than to anything particularly special about United Flight 835, nonstop 14 hours and 11 minutes from Chicago's O'Hare International to PuDong Airport in Shanghai.
To relieve the tension that I know has been building for weeks now, O Loyal Readers, my interview for the MD/MBA program at Tufts University School of Medicine could not have gone better! The morning session started with a surprisingly informative tour and financial aid presentation and wrapped up with one of the better catered lunches I've had. I then got a chance to sit down with the dean of the MD/MBA program, who happily answered all my questions and helped make my decision to do the MD/MBA program, if I'm accepted, an easy one. In the afternoon I had two interviews, scoring big on the first one as my interviewer was a Sigma Chi from Columbia University, and (I think) nailing the second one with an 81 year old anesthesiologist, who claims to have visited all but 12 countries on Earth (I'm asking myself what he's doing interviewing people like me with only 12 passport stamps to go on one heck of an accomplishment... but hey, the interview went awesome so I'm not complaining.)
I ended up having to go into work on Friday for the whole day (significantly jet lagged) and discovered that I have what the human resources people are sarcastically referring to as "job security." That is, the hospital recently found out it is being considered an accelerated filing company by the SEC for purposes of Section 404 compliance under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. For the non-accounting major's in the audience, basically what was a 30 month project has turned into 5 months of pure chaos for the accounting and finance departments... which was nice news to get as I am currently negotiating my new contract. I'll keep you all posted and you keep your fingers crossed for good news from Tufts on November 15th.
To relieve the tension that I know has been building for weeks now, O Loyal Readers, my interview for the MD/MBA program at Tufts University School of Medicine could not have gone better! The morning session started with a surprisingly informative tour and financial aid presentation and wrapped up with one of the better catered lunches I've had. I then got a chance to sit down with the dean of the MD/MBA program, who happily answered all my questions and helped make my decision to do the MD/MBA program, if I'm accepted, an easy one. In the afternoon I had two interviews, scoring big on the first one as my interviewer was a Sigma Chi from Columbia University, and (I think) nailing the second one with an 81 year old anesthesiologist, who claims to have visited all but 12 countries on Earth (I'm asking myself what he's doing interviewing people like me with only 12 passport stamps to go on one heck of an accomplishment... but hey, the interview went awesome so I'm not complaining.)
I ended up having to go into work on Friday for the whole day (significantly jet lagged) and discovered that I have what the human resources people are sarcastically referring to as "job security." That is, the hospital recently found out it is being considered an accelerated filing company by the SEC for purposes of Section 404 compliance under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. For the non-accounting major's in the audience, basically what was a 30 month project has turned into 5 months of pure chaos for the accounting and finance departments... which was nice news to get as I am currently negotiating my new contract. I'll keep you all posted and you keep your fingers crossed for good news from Tufts on November 15th.
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