Wednesday, January 30, 2013

The Two Kinds of Indecision

As you may or may not have noticed, I have not updated in over a month.  We are right in the middle of picking our fourth year schedule, deciding on fourth year electives and away rotations, and registering for Step 2 of the board exams - aka figuring out the rest of our lives.  NBD.

So obviously having so many things to do and keep track of as well as studying for the pediatrics shelf and OSCE this past Friday have turned me into a mess of indecisiveness with the inability to do anything at all.  Which is exactly the opposite of the reaction one should have with such a full to-do list.


...And I'm one of the lucky ones!  I've decided on what I want to do with my life (for now, anyway).  The people who still don't know what specialty they want to go into have it much harder around this time because they have to figure out all this stuff and also decide what they're going to be when they grow up.  We've now rotated through four out of the six main specialties, and I like to group the people who are still undecided into two groups:

Positive Polly (or Positive Pablo, let's not be sexist) and Negative Nancy (...or Negative Norbert).  Positive Polly looooooves every specialty so freaking much and can't posssssibly be expected to make a decision between them.  On the other side, Negative Nancy has not found anything yet that she could actually imagine doing for her whoooole entire life.


So those of you who are undecided, where do you fit in?  Or is there a middle ground somewhere? (Just kidding, there's no gray area - you HAVE TO CHOOSE ONE.)