First, You Drop Your Load

That is the standard answer to any situational pimping, e.g., "what do you do if you cut the common bile duct?"

I think it's an appropriate response to "what do you do if you have to think about your future?" Talked to my dad for an hour this afternoon about it, and cried a little bit. I am so not ready to gear up for the away-rotation-scheduling, letters-of-recommendation-getting, step-2 scheduling, etc, all the while actually trying to figure out what you want to do. I'm just too much in a survival mode right now. :-/ One step at a time...