BroncoHound
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Thank you very much for the words of encouragement, Eli!Thank you for your service and thank you for the write up!
Enjoyed reading it all the way through.
Agree on Houston in August. Feels like your walking through pea soup and you can break a sweat walking through a parking lot at 830 at night. 9 years of that was enough for me!
As far as medical school, the people who do well are the ones who know how to stay focused and know they are the only ones responsible for their own success. It’s not easy, but neither are many things in life. From what I’ve read of you, sounds like you’re going to do well.
-Eli (BCM c/o 09’)
A brief side story: for a short period of time after I bought that house in Houston in 2014, I lived in it anticipating a shift in my job role from field supervision to the engineering team in the Houston office. I wound up taking an engineering role in Pennsylvania instead so only lived there for about 5 months before renting it out, but that's beside the point.
When I first moved into that house (it was summer of '14), I was rotating to west Texas for work on a 14/14 schedule. As soon as I would step off the plane in Midland, my lips would feel chapped and I'd immediately need to find and chug about a gallon of water. After 2 weeks in the desert, I would get acclimated and then flying back to Houston, as soon as I would step off the plane it felt as if I was wearing a 40lbs rucksack and was borderline drowning in the air because it was so thick and wet and heavy. Houston truly is an enigma. I've been lots of places that get hotter and have been to places more humid (on paper). But I've NEVER been as completely uncomfortable as I have been in Houston, Texas. Baghdad was more comfortable, warts and all.
It's a shame because there are people in Houston I enjoy and certain aspects about Houston I was fond of. But that climate. Woof.
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