Dear Grad School;
When I applied for residency/internship, I listed my preferred geographic locations in addition to providing fairly detailed information about the finances I would be using to pay to the 6 mandatory trips I would be making back to campus during the 2 year residency period. This was a month ago. Over the course of that month I have been subjected to countless 'informal' and 'friendly' inquiries about where (and why) I want to go on residency and if I've thought of the costs involved. In the past week I have had 2 formal discussions with both the residency co-ordinator and my faculty advisor about the financial burden associated with doing residency farther afield than Alberta or Saskatchewan. I get it. Really. You haven't had a student go outside the prairies in many many years, it's not the normal process, and you want to make sure I don't drain the bursary fund* with all the travelling I will have to do between the residency site and school. Fine. But guess what, if I have to stay on the prairies for another 2 years, I am going to drop out of this program. I will go nuts. I am not from here, I wasn't too thrilled about moving here in the first place, I never inteneded to stay here, and I never hid any of that. So quit whining and throwing up piss poor reasons to try and get me to stay here. It's not going to happen.
Sincerely,
Dirona
*Let's not forget that I have accessed this fund once in my 2 years here thus far, to replace my computer when it died a third time, and I needed to update the motherboard in an old PC of a friend's and built the rest of it out of scavenged parts. That's it. In comprison to the other student who is applying for residency who has been milking the fund for 8 YEARS for a new car, a new computer, holiday travel, etc etc etc. All while never getting an outside job, while I WORK while in school, take more classes and get better grades. But I'm not bitter.
Turns out I had to change the way I sleep. Getting better.
