This is the next life skill that I need to learn. It is inevitable. One of my New Year’s Resolutions was to enforce a two minute maximum on dwelling on things and not taking them personally. Let me tell you, I don’t think that two minutes is really sufficient in all cases. Maybe it will be when I am a Rejection Specialist, but I am just not there yet. Also, I don’t know if becoming a Rejection Specialist makes you more emotionally competent or just soulless. Either way, I have a long couple of years coming with this medical school process. I like to remain optimistic, even to a fault, but I had my first brush with it the other day and I don’t think it will be the only time. I got rejected from a letter of recommendation that I had requested from a teacher that I thought adored me. So far I have cried about it (boo) and decided to step up my pre-application efforts (yay). Any tips you have for this sort of thing would be much appreciated, because I need to thicken up my tissue-paper-thin skin.