The single most important day in my medical school career has finally been set:

That's the day I am scheduled to take Step I of the US Medical Licensing Exam. Granted, Match Day (where medical students learn where they will be doing residency and in what specialty), is very important too, but they keep telling us that our Step I score is the most important factor in securing a desirable residency, with 3rd year grades and Letters of Recommendation following closely behind. Probably when I get to that point, Match Day will become the single most important day in my medical school career.

I just hope that the date I selected for Step I is a good balance between enough time to study, and enough time for the scores to be posted so that I can start my clinical rotations on time. The school would not give a firm deadline as to when one had to take the test by, just sometime in "mid-July…"