on our minds

As graduation for Dave approaches, a lot of things are on our minds. Mostly its all the unknown stuff, up-in-the air stuff. So, what's our plan?

*Dave wants to go to Medical School. Back in August he was planning on being an eye-doctor and did phenomonal on the admissions test. He probably could have entered any school he wanted. But Med school requires a different test and a different school and slightly different requirements. So, though he's graduating in April, he'll be applying this summer to enter in Fall 2009.

*It looks like he has a job opportunity in Rupert right after graduation, even though he'll only be around for 15 months. We really want to live in Rupert to be closer to family for a little while before going to med school. The job doesn't pay quite as well as we had hoped.

*We want to be able to buy a bigger (trail blazer) car by the end of the in between year. We're not sure if we can do that with this job.

*Med school is another issue entirely. They are expensive and hard to get in to, especially for white males. He'll have to take the MCAT pretty soon, too. We're in the process of deciding what schools to apply to, and we could end up anywhere, really. Our top choices are U of Washington and Utah, but there is one in Texas and a few others that might be good for us too.

So, I guess that's it. A lot on our minds. I've had a pretty cushy life so far, so probably we're about to take on a few more challanges in the next few years.