shmerndawg said:
Hey guys,
So I may be with y'all come August as well, all depending on how my other wait lists pan out. Do any of you guys have any idea of logistics? I'm looking towards you MS1's. I know at other schools they've said to me to come with $1500 or so dollars to get myself established in an apartment and whatnot because it takes some time for the financial aid to be disbursed. What is the case for Georgetown? Where do med students typically live? It sounds like, given the grading system/match list etc..that Georgetown is very competative. But how often/what do you guys do you guys all do for fun? I've always been about balance, work hard and play hard. So now that we've heard about the work some...could we be enlightened with what we might do once we slam those books shut?
I would say work hard / play hard describes gtown well for me anyway. It is very boom and bust, you constantly take tests, celebrate afterwards for a week or two by doing absolutely nothing, studying for the next test, celebrating, on and on. I would say 50% of people go to class, lots of people travel and go out on weekends. 2 weekends per month i would say you typically have totally free, 3 weekends in a good month but you usually dont go that long without a test. But I mean i have a ton of free time, on weekdays if you do not go to class you just do whatever you want. If you dont go to class, you are totally free to do whatever you want all day, every day, unless its test time when you are totally swamped. There are weekly afternoon meetings you ahve to go to also, about 2 afternoons a week you spend doing something random for some insignificant class or labs.
Georgetown is THE area in DC in my opinion. At night, everyone basically comes to you if you live in the area. There are tons of bars and tons of kids out all the time. You take cabs or walk everywhere so driving isnt an issue. There are cool concerts all over the place and everyone is so into the new baseball team but i am not too into it for some reason. If you dont live in the area though, i could see it being pretty boring, especially if you live in arlington or someplace where you would have to drive to gtown to go out. But if you are married or want to be isolated its cheaper than Gtown. 1500? that is way low to move into gtown.
Rent, if you shared a place in a big house (ie at the cheapest possible), is like 800. Your own place, 1100. So when you show up to rent it you need 1100 1st month rent 1100 security deposit and money for furniture. So probably like 3000 should do it. Living in georgetown is a luxury, it is expensive but cool. Lots of people live other places, but i like the atmosphere. It could get to people who do not like city hub-ub. I have only left the Gtown area a few times to go out. I went to see a wizards game, a concert, and to adams morgan ( a cool but overrated bar area of dc) . Oh yeah there is the national zoo close by which is free all the time and kind of cool. PLus you can go downtown to the holocaust museum and all the other cool DC stuff. Seriously there is SO much to do if you want, or you can do nothing and its still just a nice place to live.
its also convenient to live near school. Parking is a NIGHTMARE, so walking is a good option, or biking. Lots of people who save money living far away drive in and end up wasting so much time sitting through classes that are a waste of time, just because it doesnt make sense for them to leave. WHere is you lived close you could leave and come back to the important lectures.
hope this helps gotta run
