Burger McDo moment
My friend Mae came up with this phrase when we were in college. It’s what you use when you believe that you got a bargain but then actually end up feeling you got cheated. You go into a McDonald’s and think, a burger for 20 bucks? Great! Then when you taste it you realize all you got was starchy crap. I went to Walgreens to buy an artificial sweetener. I saw one made by the store itself. A hundred sachets for 99 cents. Then every coffee I drank with this sweetener tasted like I poured pee into it. (Not that I know how pee tastes like). During my interviews for residency matching, one of the doctors from my first interview told me that I was a “good, average, solid candidate.” I then remembered my Burger McDo moments in med school. All those times I thought I was doing myself a favor by not “overexerting.” And so I ended up as being just a solid, average candidate. When you’re actually trying to convince others that you are good enough or even better than the droves who have come from all over the world trying to get a position, it’s best to remember those moments when you tried to be stellar. So aside from resolving to be a diva spinster, I’m also going to be a diva intern wannabe. I’ll try to minimize the Burger McDo moments, even if in the US, 99 cents is 40 friggin’ pesos.
