Bump in the Road

I guess this is the downside of being a New England sports fan, but the average amount of sleep we have been getting these past 8 months due to the World Series, Superbowl, and NBA Finals is way down below average. I don't understand why the games are on so late, if the majority of the fans are on the East Coast anyways, and it's a heck of a lot easier to Tivo a game at 5 and come home and watch it at 6, then to tivo it at 9, go to work, come home and watch it and not know how it went.

I hit a little bump in the road in terms of preparing for PA school. I contacted the two schools who offer the scholarship I am eligible for (that would pay a majority of my graduate expenses), and it turns out, they only offer them to the med students. According to the requirements of the grant, PA students are eligible for funds, so I guess it's just the preference of the school as to where to allocate them. The only school that I have found that definitly offers it is Idaho State, and the chances of me getting in are pretty slim. They're looking for people who have years of health care experience. Besides, do I really want to go all the way out to Idaho? Therefore, I've been doing a lot of soul searching and figuring out how much debt I want to be in when I graduate. There are people have over $100,000 in debt by the time they graduate, and it's definitely manageable. I just don't know if I want those kinds of restrictions. I could do loan repayment, which would pay $50,000 for two years of service in a health shortage area, but that means I'd be up in the potato fields/logging regions of Maine, or inner city prisons. Which I could do, but again, it's the committment issue. I could work in a speciality that makes mucho money (like neurology, starting salary is around 80 grand), but do I really want a career in neurology, and how much of my primary care skills are going to be lost in my stint in that field?

I have to think long and hard about this. As of right now, I don't know which direction I am leaning towards.