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Hello Sdn,
I got into both MD and DO school. Both are wonderful schools, and they cost about the same. I like the MD school better, but the DO school is located where my wife works, while the MD school is located 5 hours away. My wife has a wonderful job, and it is hard for to get a good job at small city where the MD school is located.
Three options here:
1. I attend the DO school and live with my wife. Will regret for a long period of time that I missed out of MD, but I would sacrifice my needs for my wife needs.
2. I attend the MD school and live apart from my wife for the next 4 years. That would suck and be expensive. Time to get that airline credit card.
3. I attend the MD school, and my wife would try to find a job there, even though it wouldn't be beneficial to her career (think of it as an equivalent of her attending a DO school over a MD school)
Have you heard of the story of "the Gift of Magi" by O. Henry? Well it's sort of like that right now. I told my wife, that I'd be willing to go to DO school for her (Option number 1), and she told me she would try to fly out or do whatever necessary for me to go to the MD school (Option number 2 or 3). (if we did emulate the "The Gift of Magi" story, I would be going to the DO school, while she would quit her current job and work at a subpar company at the city where the MD school is located... but I joke and digress.)
The dilemma is real.
Any thoughts?
I got into both MD and DO school. Both are wonderful schools, and they cost about the same. I like the MD school better, but the DO school is located where my wife works, while the MD school is located 5 hours away. My wife has a wonderful job, and it is hard for to get a good job at small city where the MD school is located.
Three options here:
1. I attend the DO school and live with my wife. Will regret for a long period of time that I missed out of MD, but I would sacrifice my needs for my wife needs.
2. I attend the MD school and live apart from my wife for the next 4 years. That would suck and be expensive. Time to get that airline credit card.
3. I attend the MD school, and my wife would try to find a job there, even though it wouldn't be beneficial to her career (think of it as an equivalent of her attending a DO school over a MD school)
Have you heard of the story of "the Gift of Magi" by O. Henry? Well it's sort of like that right now. I told my wife, that I'd be willing to go to DO school for her (Option number 1), and she told me she would try to fly out or do whatever necessary for me to go to the MD school (Option number 2 or 3). (if we did emulate the "The Gift of Magi" story, I would be going to the DO school, while she would quit her current job and work at a subpar company at the city where the MD school is located... but I joke and digress.)
The dilemma is real.
Any thoughts?