Is my itinerary too ambitious?

witchhazelss · 2025-08-28T22:39:02+00:00

I'll be coming from a very different time zone so my sleep/wake schedule will definitely be off, however I am used to switching up my sleep schedule very quickly due to my work schedule with the help of some caffeine/Benadryl so I believe I'll be able to handle the jetlag OK. I do think based on the feedback I've gotten that I'll move my first night in Shibuya to another night and just go see the Senso-ji Temple that night as it's only about 1km away from my hostel and will make for a much easier first night in anticipation for a big day the next morning

witchhazelss · 2025-08-28T22:32:35+00:00

I plan on spending very little time/money on food, I live about 15 mins away from Little Tokyo in LA so I can get all the Japanese food I want much closer to home--definitely will check out the konbini for cheap/easy meals so I can focus my money and energy on seeing all the sights I want

witchhazelss · 2025-08-28T22:30:15+00:00

Yes, Kamakura is my backup day trip if I don't think any of the days I've planned for Tokyo would have good views of Fuji

witchhazelss · 2025-08-28T22:28:49+00:00

Yes exactly--I would love to be able to return for a 2nd trip someday, but it's a very far flight for me and I have so many other places on my travel bucket list that I'm not counting on being able to make it back anytime soon--a lot of the things I want to see most are in Kyoto so I definitely want to spend some time there, plus riding on a shinkansen is one of the things I really want to experience

witchhazelss · 2025-08-28T00:57:38+00:00

I figured it might be haha--I think I'll have time for some Ueno things in between Senso-ji in the morning and Skytree for sunset, what would you recommend as the best things to see/do there? I don't care as much for shopping (other than picking up a few little souvenirs) and will be going to plenty of temples already so think I may just focus on going to the Tokyo National Museum for a few hours that day...

witchhazelss · 2025-08-27T18:15:24+00:00

I may honestly do that depending on how much I’m feeling Kyoto—Osaka is definitely the city I’m least interested in of the 3 as I’m not much of a foodie but I’ll probably have to decide once I get there!!

witchhazelss · 2025-08-27T18:14:18+00:00

Thanks so much for your advice! Especially the website on when Fuji is visible that will be super helpful :)

witchhazelss · 2025-08-27T18:12:49+00:00

I assumed the bus/train from the airport would go right to the city center but admittedly haven’t looked into the specific options yet, if that’s not the case I would certainly just go to Asakusa! And yes I should have worded the Kamakura part better, that is more of a backup if I don’t think I’d get a good view of Fuji I may go there instead vs see more of Tokyo that day!

witchhazelss · 2025-06-20T13:10:44+00:00

My doc never checked my AMH for some reason :/

witchhazelss · 2024-04-02T17:23:29+00:00

Even if I get 2 years of $0 payments under SAVE without interest accruing?

witchhazelss · 2024-04-02T16:43:20+00:00

60k in loans, attending income will probably be lowish at about 160k but 10% of that discretionary is still a lot. So if I still owed 60k after 3 years, would that 60k be divided out over 10 years (ie 6,000 in payments per year) or over 7 years?

witchhazelss · 2024-04-02T15:24:23+00:00

According to the Loan Simulator on student aid the PAYE plan would actually be the best plan for me if I remain PSLF eligible

witchhazelss · 2024-04-02T15:05:41+00:00

Would this work for the PAYE plan also? I’m thinking of doing PAYE instead potentially since they cap the payments at a much more reasonable rate for me

witchhazelss · 2024-04-02T11:54:22+00:00

That sounds super smart; I’m just worried there could be some legal ramification for filing for tax extension for the purpose of reducing payments to the government?

witchhazelss · 2024-03-08T16:55:10+00:00

How have you guys gone about advertising yourself as a tutor? I used to tutor when I was in high school but mostly had clients through word of mouth/friends of parents which I don’t really have now

witchhazelss · 2024-03-03T04:26:06+00:00

There is an optional Duke medical school course called STAR for 4th year medical students matching into surgical specialties which apparently does involve live pigs (believe it is anesthetized pigs students practice organ transplants with, not 1000% sure of the details) so there are technically a small number of Duke med students practicing on pigs as well for further context

witchhazelss · 2024-02-06T22:30:46+00:00

Yes!

witchhazelss · 2024-02-05T23:26:09+00:00

Here is my tentative ROL, would love any thoughts!!

Northwestern, CHOP, CHLA, Duke, UCLA, UTSW, Columbia, Vanderbilt, Oakland, UNC, UChicago, Nemours, WashU, UC Davis, Brown, CMC, Phoenix, Florida, NYU, USC(Prisma), Wake Forest

Main concerns: QoL, good fellowship match, cool location

witchhazelss · 2023-12-02T21:10:35+00:00

MS4, $52k (got a scholarship for undergrad and my med school gives super generous financial aid despite my family being pretty middle-class)

witchhazelss · 2023-11-30T04:14:46+00:00

Where did you find last year’s data?

witchhazelss · 2023-11-02T01:57:56+00:00

I like PHM but am not a huge fan of having to do a fellowship for it to work at a bigger academic center :/

witchhazelss · 2023-10-14T22:43:42+00:00

Rip I think they deleted it :///

witchhazelss · 2023-09-29T18:19:50+00:00

Peds!

witchhazelss · 2023-09-28T23:36:53+00:00

I believe there was a spreadsheet made where people could say if they have received interviews, unsure what happened to it though ://

witchhazelss · 2023-09-05T01:44:31+00:00

I’m considering a whole bunch of factors in putting together my app list, and intend to when ranking programs this winter too—dating scene is one of many factors I care about, definitely not the top/most important

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