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I’ve been reading a lot more lately... Reminds me of my childhood days where I would go to the library every week to borrow at least four books. And each book, depending on the length, would last me a day or two. It’s quite refreshing to finally have time for myself to read what I want.
Weekend in San Diego
I spent my MLK weekend in San Diego and the whole purpose of the trip was to attend my UCSD pharmacy interview. My interview was on Saturday at 12pm so I flew down on Friday night after work. Minh picked me up when I arrived at around 9:20pm. I haven’t seen him for two weeks!! Anyway, I studied for a bit for the rest of the night and went to sleep at around 12:30am. I couldn’t sleep well though since I woke up every 2 hours. I got to UCSD at 11:30am and it felt nostalgic. It has been over 6 months since I set foot on campus.
Anyway, I got to the Skaggs building and there were people who were in the morning interview session and people waiting for the next. The whole structure of the interview was semi-structured. There was an hour-long orientation where the associate dean talked about the school and the curriculum. Then, interviews were from 1pm-3:15pm and each person was assigned to a specific time. The writing sample was not timed and you can basically take 2 hours to do it since it is not due until 4pm, which is the check-out time. I only took less than an hour to finish and spent another hour talking to the pharmacy students to kill time since my interview time was scheduled as the last slot. I was interviewed by an alumni and a P2 in a traditional format. They were really nice and tried to make the setting as comfortable as possible. The questions they asked were very typical pharmacy: why pharmacy/UCSD? My activities and accomplishments. They were basically trying to get a sense of who I was and what I wanted to do with pharmacy. I ended the interview with a pretty good impression and idea of what the pharmacy school can offer. Hopefully, I’ll get an acceptance letter from them. I wouldn’t mind going back to UCSD to continue my post-grad.
After the interview, Minh picked me up and we went to Philz BBQ to celebrate the end of another interview!! This time we each ordered half rib dinners with mac salad and fries as sides and it was still too much to finish in one sitting.
Went to my second pharmacy interview at California Northstate University. I had to wake up at 5am in order to get there before 8:15am. I was so tired but thankfully, my parents drove for me. Hehe. I made coffee beforehand but I didn’t even drink it since I wanted to sleep in the car while we were heading there. We left at around 5:40am and the sky was still pitch black. The drive took about an hour and a half from SF, and we arrived at Northstate at around 7:30am. It was freeeezing cold and I was wearing a skirt.
At around 8:10am, I finally went into the building and there were only about 8 people waiting in the lobby. After checking in, I received a folder and a name badge, and in the folder, there were financial aid information, Team-Based Learning (TBL) reading material, my interview day schedule, and some business cards. After waiting for a few more minutes, the group grew to about 20 people, and we were then escorted by Jason, one of the admissions coordinator, to a really big classroom to wait for the program to start at 9am... If only I knew that I could just arrive by 9am instead of 8:15am, I would’ve gotten an extra 30 minutes of sleep T_T but Northstate provided free coffee and water so that was nice. The room that I was in was apparently where P1s would sit in for class and on each wall, there was at least one projector screen. I was quite surprised that the rooms were that big and high-tech.
While waiting for more interviewees and the program to start, I talked to people sitting on my table. By the time it was 9am, there were 54 interviewees... wow. The program started promptly at 9am and we sat through a few presentations. At 10am, we were split into our designated groups (we were split into 5 groups). Some people went to do their interviews, some to do their writing sample, and my group along with another sat through a financial aid presentation. We then had more time to read through the TBL reading and after that, we went to a student-led Q&A session. After the Q&A session, I went to do my writing sample which was only 20 minutes long. The topic was on dress code and from reading another blog, it was the same exact prompt. LOL. After the writing sample, I did my interviews which were MMI style but it wasn’t too bad. I met with 1 faculty or 1 faculty/student and I did only 2 stations. I was given 3 minutes to read and formulate my answer, and then I have 10 minutes to say it to my interviewer. The interviewers also asked me other questions such as why pharmacy and why CNU? Those 10 minutes flew by very quickly since I always run out of time and wasn’t able to ask my own questions.
Finally, it was lunch and I got to talk to a professor. It was very chill and casual. The food wasn’t anything special, just some typical Americanized Chinese food. After lunch, we did a simulation of TBL which wasn’t too bad. After the exercise, I went on the optional tour of the university and interview day was DONE. It took about 5.5 hours but the day went by quickly.
Today I received an email saying that I paid my school loans in full :’) I also received an invitation to interview at UCSD Skaggs!! Wooohoo~ I got one foot into the door; now I just need to polish up on my interview skills and hopefully, that’ll be enough for them to like and accept me.
It would be kind of weird if I end up going to UCSD and Minh accepts his job offer in SF. We would be switching places with each other and doing long distance again for another year. I know that we’ll be fine since we are both busy with our own things but it would be nice if we were closer in proximity with each other and be able to see each other every weekend like we used to.
This Friday is my interview with Northstate and their interviews are modified MMIs. I’m not really doing much to prepare for that because everywhere I read, it’s just impossible to prepare something that requires you to critically think on your feet. I can only use what i know, let my values guide me, and do my best. The only downside of attending this interview is that I have to get there by 8:15am and it’s a 2 hour drive from SF.... aka I will be waking up at probably 5:30am just to get ready.
Wish me luck~
I’m going to pharmacy school!
So.... I found out that I got into UOP!!!!!!! I kept refreshing my email on Tuesday because according to SDN, decisions come out either Tuesday or Wednesday. I was pretty confident about my interview after I left the school but as the weekend went by, I started to second guess myself. Thoughts like “Did I answer the writing prompt correctly? Did I communicate my background and motivations well?” etc. popped up and from there, I started to lose my optimism. But thankfully, I have MV, my boyfriend, who have been constantly encouraging me to be more positive, and everyone I talked to about pharm school thought that I had the ability and personality to get in. Thanks for believing in me everyone :’)
Anyway, after I read my acceptance email and checked to make sure it said accepted, I freaked out at work and immediately told my coworker, “I GOT IN!!!!!” She was so confused for a sec until she thought about what I meant and congratulated me. She was like, “ -sigh- you’re going to leave me very soon. so lonely” Aw. I, then, told my parents, close friends, and MV who all were happy and excited for me. After MV saw my texts, he immediately called me and the first thing he said was, “See, I told you you would get in! I believed in you” Hahaha ok, you’re right b. TAF fam was like, “Em, please don’t forget us when you’re up there” to which I responded, “I’m still human” and to which they responded, “Yes, but more superior”. HAHA guys, please. I will stay humble and treat you the same-- full of sass and honesty. Luv y’all ♥
Yesterday was wonderful~ I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders and I am finally moving forward. Pharmacy has been my aspiration since senior year of high school and I am just barely taking the first step. The next step (pharmacy school) is going to be even harder to overcome but I’m prepared to meet the challenge. Nonetheless, I can’t wait to share this news with the rest of my extended family when I see them for Thanksgiving. They’ve known that I’ve been wanting this for a while and have been asking about my progress via my parents; and now that it’s within my grasp, they’re going to be surprised~ It’s going to be a great Thanksgiving weekend!!
First Pharmacy Interview
Last week on November 18th, I went to my first pharmacy interview at the UOP School of Pharmacy. I was so nervous while I was on my way there from San Francisco, frantically trying to remember my prepared answers for basic interview questions, but once the program started, all that nervousness went away and was replaced with confidence (for a bit). It was game time, baby!!!
I arrived at UOP at around 11:30am, a full hour before the actual interview started. Since it was still early, I stayed in the car to review my interview notes some more and eat a little even though I was too nervous to have an appetite. At around 11:50am, I headed to the designated meet-up location and met other interviewees. Everyone was pretty awkward with each other, including me (hah), but I made some small talk with some girls. I eventually got to know this one girl who was also from SF and we hit it off pretty well. By the time 12:30pm came around, there were only about 15 of us total. I was pretty surprised since I thought there would be more people interviewing but I guess it’s because UOP is on a rolling admissions basis and the application deadline isn’t until December 1st.
At promptly 12:30pm, a lady whose name I could not hear nor remember led us to a classroom where we received our interview packets and name tags. She explained to us what we could expect that afternoon and tried to crack some jokes to help us relax. We then met the dean of the pharmacy school and I have to say, he is funny. I really liked his welcome speech and the way he tried to help everyone feel relaxed. This welcome part of the interview day lasted for thirty minutes. At 1pm, we were split into three groups based on the number printed on our name tags. Each group traded off doing the tour/presentation and the interview portions, but everyone did the writing sample at the same time.
I was in the group that had the tour and presentation first. Water and cookies were offered, which was really kind of them. The presentation was just an overview of the pharmacy program which was presented by a P2 student. It provided a pretty good insight of what UOP can offer especially the extracurriculars. I’m interested in joining a fraternity so I talked to a few people about it. The pharmacy school isn’t very big with only I think three buildings in total so it took less than 15 minutes to see everything. The dorm is literally 2 minutes away from the lecture hall which is VERY convenient but I don’t think I would want to live on campus when it’s cheaper to live off ($450-500 for a single).
Finally, it was time for the interview. The format of the interview is traditional 1 on 1 with one 20 minute interview with a professor and another one with a P2. But I found out from a P2 that I was the only one who would be interviewed by two professors. LOOOOOOOL that kind of freaked me out but the students said they are really nice. For the first interview, I was pretty bad or at least, to me now that I think about it. My nerves kicked in again which made my voice so thin and shaky. I also stuttered a little too... UGH but it helped that the professor wasn’t put off by it. He smiled to my answers and seemed interested in what I had to say. The questions asked were VERY basic: why pharmacy? tell me about yourself. what have you done so far to show your interest? etc. There was also a situational question which I already had an example for. THANK GOODNESS. Before my interview ended, the professor said I seem very mature and he thought that I will do well in my future endeavors. At this point, I was like YAS, I received a compliment. The second interview went more or less the same way but I was much more relaxed and confident.
After going thru the tour and interview, the writing sample was the last thing to do. It was only 50 minutes long and the topic was “Do you think the drinking age of 21 is the most appropriate?” It’s a pretty easy, non-ethic related question so I had no trouble brainstorming and writing about it which was unexpected since I am not a great writer. I took about 40 minutes to finish my essay and turned it in. By this time, it was 4:00pm and I was so glad everything was done.
First post
I made a new blog. I thought that I should begin with a new page since a new chapter in my life is beginning and I haven’t really kept up with my five-year old blog. Initially, I wanted this to be about my pharmacy life and to jot down some advice/thoughts about the whole process but I think I will just post whatever comes to my mind.
I don’t know if I’ll keep up with blogging. I mean, I didn’t do so well on my other one and there were just too many “reblogs” that I reposted that pretty much diluted my actual posts. It is always easier for someone else or some other picture to represent your moods or feelings.
Anyway, ever since I graduated about five months ago, I have been working full-time as a clerk for a community health center. At first, it was cool and new but now I’m just so bored and tired of it. I was also getting my pharmacy school application together and studying for my PCAT exam while working 40 hours a week. Those responsibilities made me feel a bit burnt out but thanks to my efforts and perseverance, I got everything done on time and up to my expectations. Nonetheless, through this job, I realized that I do not want a desk job or a job that has barely any human interaction besides ones with my coworker who is a cubicle away. I didn’t want to be stuck doing a job that doesn’t teach me new skills or provides challenges for the next 10 years. However, I am grateful for the opportunity to reconnect with the Chinese language and community through this position. My Chinese sucked before I moved back home because I had no one to speak Chinese to in college. Now, I see Chinese-speaking coworkers everyday and I have no choice but to communicate with them in Chinese as much as possible. It’s like I got my native tongue back.