Most of the time, applying for residency is very, very expensive for med students. It’s not uncommon for them to drop ten grand on interview season!
However, there are those unicorn interviews where you get treated instead of paying out the nose.
We got lucky enough to get one of those.
A hospital in Palm Springs, California invited Ben to interview for residency, and since it is pretty close to home, he decided to go and take me with him. Actually, we decided to make a family road trip out of it! As I was planning our Airbnb bookings, Ben told me that the hospital was paying for interviewees’ hotel stays. In the Marriott Resort.
Oh, yeah.
Even better, they told Ben to bring me to the pre-interview dinner, which was at the very fancy resort restaurant.
I have never been to an open-bar event before, so I felt a bit out of my element! Especially since the other significant others seemed to fit into this setting quite easily. Let’s just say I don’t do well in conversations about decorators and deaigner purses.
But the homemade ginger ale was pretty bomb, and some of the other inteviewees were also from Caribbean schools, so cocktail hour ended up being a lot of fun! Dinner was great, too- one of the resident’s wives was from Mexico, and she and another resident patiently let me bushwhack my way through conversations in Spanish.
The most fun part of the day, though, was taking baby to the pool and showing Ben the baby swim techniques we learned in swim lessons. So much fun!
After a night in the massive suite, Ben went to his interview and baby and I took full advantage of the resort.
As you can see, the resort (and its 1.5 mile walking path) was a wonderful place to spend a morning!
Baby even got some tummy time on the lawn.
Residency interviews have their perks.
