Deep Dish In CHI- TWN

I made it! My parents and I loaded a truck and moved into Chicago on Saturday. The apartment is huge. My parents helped a ton. They went out and bought me the nicest couch ever, you sink like 5 feet into it, end tables, a coffee table, really nice kitchen stuff, and just random stuff. Awesome. Only bad thing was the kitchen cabinet doors had mold on them. They cleaned those yesterday. I officially am moved into Chicago! I went jogging last night for the first time in down town Chi town. Awesome. So many people out and doing the same thing. So much to see and take in. I like it. Downtown is going to be great for study breaks.

I had my first Chicago deep dish pizza from Lou Malnati's on Sunday with a buddy who is going to Moody bible school here (so strict there: no t-shirts to class of any kind, no televisions in the dorms, censored internet, dancing off campus was just allowed last year, no girls in guys dorm room, only allowed to skip class certain amount of times in a semester, its soooo crazy strict). So the deep dish was really good. It looks tiny when they bring it out, and I was like "This aint going to be enough". I was full after one and a half slices. It was like spinach and stuff, the house special. It was the bomb. Today I was on the "EL" train and some dude asked me for the time so I gave it to him. After, he began to rant how he was going to visit his grandkids, and then he took a huge swig out of a bottle in a blakc bag and hopped off at the next stop, meanwhile yelling goodbye to the entire train car. Welcome to CHI TWN. Anyways, orientation starts tomorrow. Going to be doctors! Going to clean stuff tonight and organize.

-MD in 14 

New York Strip with Pastor

Last Tuesday, August 17, I got to have steak with my pastor. He treated me because he made a deal on Christmas Eve in 2009 that he would buy me a steak dinner if I did not get accepted into Iowa Medical School. Sure enough, I did not, but got accepted into Rush Medical College, and therefore he promised to still buy me the steak! He took me and we both had a New York strip at an awesome local steak house called Mamies. While there, over our conversation he told me that I will get discouraged in medical school. His daughter went to a medical school in Chicago, and went through what I will be going through. The most memorable thing pastor told me was that how he daughter told him that when she was in medical school, other classmates would get so worked up before exams that they would puke right before the exam due to the high stress level of studying.

 He said I am was selected because they know I can do it, and therefore not to worry, but to study one day at a time and to focus and look at the larger picture. He is a very encouraging person. It means a great deal to me that my pastor of my church would take the time to buy me dinner and provide me with such awesome encouragement. I love the people I have around me. I will be depending on them as this awesome, yet difficult, yet a fullfilling journey to becoming a doctor! I can't believe I get to do this! I am so blessed. I thank God every day that he has provided me with the ability, the family support, and great people that surround me, from friends to family to entail on this adventure into the Windy City! Chicago here I come! You better be ready! In 6 days there will be a Russian at Rush ready to rock the city and the school!

-MD in 14