It all started when I received this snazzy news on Friday afternoon:
“On behalf of the Committee on Admissions and Degrees, I am pleased to extend to you an offer of admission to the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). We hope that you will join the HSPH class entering in the 2010-2011 academic year as a candidate for the full time Master of Public Health degree program in Health Care Management and Policy with an expected graduation date of May, 2011.”
This means that the Harvard School of Public Health will be my FIFTH college and/or university attended since graduating from high school, and I can officially join the ranks of such famous educational wanderlusts as SarahBarracudaPalin. It’s an honor to have this opportunity, because I think this school best matches my future goals and it makes me dizzy to think that Harvard will let me infiltrate two of their fine institutions. MADNESS!
I’m not going very far, since it’s literally next door to the dental school. Nor will I be gone for long, since it’s a brisk nine month degree! My inner curmudgeon is hesitant to get acquainted with yet another group of eager classmates, but thankfully my current colleagues will be very close by, doing their first extractions and dentures and whatnot. I plan to pester them persistently. My own clinical work will begin June 2011, and will one day finally graduate as a master public health medentalist!
As for now, I will savor the medical courses still left (hormones! digestion! poop!) and look forward to a nice looonnnggg summer. Life is good.
