There's nothing that can put a major dent to my not so perfect day like a 9pm laboratory class. I feel like the days never end on Tuesdays and Thursdays. One thing is if the school was twenty minutes or so away from me, but travelling an hour and change on the subway for an e-permit class from Brooklyn to Bronx is the greatest agony a pre-medical student can endure. It's a good thing that I sort of like the class, but the professor is another story.
Now I don't really want to delve into the details for my utter dislike of this perticular teacher, but he does not make coming to class pleasant at all. The microscopes are broken, and he spends way too much time explaining instead of applying what we've learned in microbiology.
The lecture class (which is in the morning) is so much better than the lab. I just get a kick out of leanring about the things that can kill us all. Don't you guys just love that optimism? I do.
I have yet to narrow down my medical school choices, though I highly doubt I will be able to get into the ones I have in mind, coming that these schools are in New York. But it would be nice if I got into one. Hopefully, the big guy upstairs will hook me up with that one because I can't really imagine myself going to a different place, especially away from my family and friends and my Little Loaf of Bread. I made a promise to myself that I would watch him grow but if I have to choose a school outside of NY to make my dreams come true, then so be it. Good rule of thumb, you really don't choose the medical school, the medical school chooses you.
And with that side note, I'm off to Mircobiology Lab to waste an hour and twenty minutes and another hour and change getting home. So, for my fellow New Yorkers that are outside, stay dry and warm. I'm still waiting for the strong wind gusts and the pouring rain. Knock on wood.
Cheers!
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
I've moved yet again!!!!
Hey all! The start of this semester is going well, Microbiology is pretty cool and straightforward and organic chemistry is a bit more tedious. I have a test on the 6th at 6pm. Hopefully, this test will decide what will happen to me and my medical school goal.
Tomorrow is a big who knows about a surprise microbiology test. Fungi and protista are the main focus this week. I loved fungus though. Such an interesting chapter. Anyways, off to finish my Yankee game and to study for microbiology. Hopefully, I’ll be able to do a little better wth this class and with this blog!
Cheers!
Tomorrow is a big who knows about a surprise microbiology test. Fungi and protista are the main focus this week. I loved fungus though. Such an interesting chapter. Anyways, off to finish my Yankee game and to study for microbiology. Hopefully, I’ll be able to do a little better wth this class and with this blog!
Cheers!
Some quality time with my Little Loaf of Bread
Posted originally on July 26th, 2010
My life today was not eventful but I decided to spend time with my little godson.
At nearly 12 and a half pounds, he is the main reason I want to be a neonatologist. When he was born, twelve weeks early and at only 1lb 12oz, my family really thought he wouldn’t make it. I, however, had faith that he would pull through. But, he had so many things going against him (i.e. jaundice, gastrointestinal difficulties and size) that I couldn’t do anything at all to help him. I couldn’t pick up a stethoscope to hear his little heartbeat, I couldn’t tell what he needed to enhance his health and his immune system and I couldn’t do anything at all to help him because I knew nothing about medicine. The knowledge I gained in Anatomy and Physiology gave me insight on what the doctors were doing and the functions of the body parts that affected my little godson. I understood the doctors and I was able to communicate my concerns and questions straight to them.
That’s my main concern and focus. I want to be able to communicate with my patients without having to repeat myself in simpler language what I told them the first time in the complicated one. Patients are nervous enough about their relatives already and they would hate to actually have to understand the doctors too.
So now, my baby nephew smiles, laughs, babbles and is very observant. He is a little piece of heaven, a boy who always has a smile on his face and is never sad or upset (except if he’s hungry, wet or sweaty and dirty) It’s admirable on how smart he is. He is dying to talk and observes your hands and your lips and on how he utters sounds. Gotta love my little loaf!
Here’s to babies and to an awesome career!
My life today was not eventful but I decided to spend time with my little godson.
At nearly 12 and a half pounds, he is the main reason I want to be a neonatologist. When he was born, twelve weeks early and at only 1lb 12oz, my family really thought he wouldn’t make it. I, however, had faith that he would pull through. But, he had so many things going against him (i.e. jaundice, gastrointestinal difficulties and size) that I couldn’t do anything at all to help him. I couldn’t pick up a stethoscope to hear his little heartbeat, I couldn’t tell what he needed to enhance his health and his immune system and I couldn’t do anything at all to help him because I knew nothing about medicine. The knowledge I gained in Anatomy and Physiology gave me insight on what the doctors were doing and the functions of the body parts that affected my little godson. I understood the doctors and I was able to communicate my concerns and questions straight to them.
That’s my main concern and focus. I want to be able to communicate with my patients without having to repeat myself in simpler language what I told them the first time in the complicated one. Patients are nervous enough about their relatives already and they would hate to actually have to understand the doctors too.
So now, my baby nephew smiles, laughs, babbles and is very observant. He is a little piece of heaven, a boy who always has a smile on his face and is never sad or upset (except if he’s hungry, wet or sweaty and dirty) It’s admirable on how smart he is. He is dying to talk and observes your hands and your lips and on how he utters sounds. Gotta love my little loaf!
Here’s to babies and to an awesome career!
Some Saturday fun in the midst of a joyous heat wave.
Posted originally on July 25th, 2010
Joy! It’s hot as it always is in NYC today but despite this muggy and hot day, I managed to have fun with a few of my classmates today.
My friend Nick, who is almost done with all of his pre-requisites for pharmacy school, is leaving for Ghana tomorrow to meet his four month old son for the first time. I’m so happy for him! Imagine juggling full time work, a family 2,000 miles away and going to school part-time.How I admire that guy!
I also bought his baby boy a few baby things for Nick to take home to him. It wasn’t really much, as the little guy is growing like a weed and will be growing out of his baby clothes insanely soon. My nephew, who was a preemie is at 12 pounds right about now and in about 2 weeks, he will be a six month old. Go figure! I want to learn about babies so much. They can’t tell you how they feel or what hurts them, but go by instinct, knowledge and experience. And I want to be one of these people who is able to help them. But before I get to that hurdle, I have to jump over a billion other first. And my first one is getting my 3.1 GPA boost by the end of December.
I also saw my friend Georgie today and who will be in my Physics class this Fall and Spring and will also be my lab partner! She is about to finish her SMDEP program at Columbia this coming Friday! And she told me everything I needed to know about Medical school and their admissions criteria! And as hard to believe, there is still hope for me and the chance that I could stay in the States instead of having to drop my life here and go to Puerto Rican medical schools. It isn’t something I really want to do as I would be so far away from my immediate family, but I wouldn’t be able to see them if I was attending a medical school in New York anyway, so I guess I wouldn’t be at a total loss. There is also the language barrier as I believe the classes at the Puerto Rican medical schools are in Spanish, but if anyone knows, I’d like to know. I just hate the idea of being three and a half hours away from family and from my familiarity and at-homeness I feel in NYC already, via airplane.
I’d still have cousins and my grandmother, who is almost 82, but I wouldn’t be able to see them much either as I know I have to devote all of my time to medical school and to whooping butt so that I can come back to the mainland and land an awesome residency at an ivy league school.
Anyways, Georgie strongly advised me that I should do an SMDEP program next year so that I can have the option for one interview grant at the school I get into he program with. I first thought that you had to be a Freshman or Sophomore only to be able to apply, but it turns out postbacs and non-traditional students like myself do it too! I’ll be damned! And I’m totally doing that next summer.
We all went to Yonkers to buy more things for Nick’s son at clothing and department stores. Nick was so enthusiastic today that it was adorable. He really is looking forward to meeting his little boy. I guess I can’t really relate to him as I am not a mother yet, but I feel the same I sorta feel for my godson/little loaf of bread/little nephew Jordan- the baby in my profile picture. I go out on a shopping storm and get him as much as I possibly can.
At the end of the afternoon, Georgie, Nick and their friend Kingsley, drove me home. It was so hot today that I thanked my lucky stars that they were kind enough to take the drive and drop me off at my apartment building. I think I would’ve melted in sweat o a bus like the Wicked Witch of The West did with water Dorothy splashed her in.
I told Nick to have fun and that I would see him back on August 25th when school was back in session. I can’t wait for my turn at the Delta Airlines bat to San Juan in the weeks to come.
Joy! It’s hot as it always is in NYC today but despite this muggy and hot day, I managed to have fun with a few of my classmates today.
My friend Nick, who is almost done with all of his pre-requisites for pharmacy school, is leaving for Ghana tomorrow to meet his four month old son for the first time. I’m so happy for him! Imagine juggling full time work, a family 2,000 miles away and going to school part-time.How I admire that guy!
I also bought his baby boy a few baby things for Nick to take home to him. It wasn’t really much, as the little guy is growing like a weed and will be growing out of his baby clothes insanely soon. My nephew, who was a preemie is at 12 pounds right about now and in about 2 weeks, he will be a six month old. Go figure! I want to learn about babies so much. They can’t tell you how they feel or what hurts them, but go by instinct, knowledge and experience. And I want to be one of these people who is able to help them. But before I get to that hurdle, I have to jump over a billion other first. And my first one is getting my 3.1 GPA boost by the end of December.
I also saw my friend Georgie today and who will be in my Physics class this Fall and Spring and will also be my lab partner! She is about to finish her SMDEP program at Columbia this coming Friday! And she told me everything I needed to know about Medical school and their admissions criteria! And as hard to believe, there is still hope for me and the chance that I could stay in the States instead of having to drop my life here and go to Puerto Rican medical schools. It isn’t something I really want to do as I would be so far away from my immediate family, but I wouldn’t be able to see them if I was attending a medical school in New York anyway, so I guess I wouldn’t be at a total loss. There is also the language barrier as I believe the classes at the Puerto Rican medical schools are in Spanish, but if anyone knows, I’d like to know. I just hate the idea of being three and a half hours away from family and from my familiarity and at-homeness I feel in NYC already, via airplane.
I’d still have cousins and my grandmother, who is almost 82, but I wouldn’t be able to see them much either as I know I have to devote all of my time to medical school and to whooping butt so that I can come back to the mainland and land an awesome residency at an ivy league school.
Anyways, Georgie strongly advised me that I should do an SMDEP program next year so that I can have the option for one interview grant at the school I get into he program with. I first thought that you had to be a Freshman or Sophomore only to be able to apply, but it turns out postbacs and non-traditional students like myself do it too! I’ll be damned! And I’m totally doing that next summer.
We all went to Yonkers to buy more things for Nick’s son at clothing and department stores. Nick was so enthusiastic today that it was adorable. He really is looking forward to meeting his little boy. I guess I can’t really relate to him as I am not a mother yet, but I feel the same I sorta feel for my godson/little loaf of bread/little nephew Jordan- the baby in my profile picture. I go out on a shopping storm and get him as much as I possibly can.
At the end of the afternoon, Georgie, Nick and their friend Kingsley, drove me home. It was so hot today that I thanked my lucky stars that they were kind enough to take the drive and drop me off at my apartment building. I think I would’ve melted in sweat o a bus like the Wicked Witch of The West did with water Dorothy splashed her in.
I told Nick to have fun and that I would see him back on August 25th when school was back in session. I can’t wait for my turn at the Delta Airlines bat to San Juan in the weeks to come.
BBQ’s
Posted originally on July 25th, 2010
On Friday, I met up with my friend Van Don for lunch at BBQ’s and a movie (Eclipse, which was surprisingly very good. I’m Team Jacob, by the way…). It was so exciting to see him again after his SMDEP experience in Duke this summer for six weeks. Lucky stiff! I wished someone would’ve given me that memo so that I could’ve applied for a program of these. Oh well, I’ll apply for next summer. At least if I decide to do it, I’ll get an automatic interview from the medical school.
From the sounds of it, Donnie’s experience with the SMDEP program was well worth his time. Think about it- a stipend, clinical rotations and exposure to the next few classes he was about to take- physics and physiology. I am taking physics next semester and I’m a bit nervous about it especially after hearing everyone in my university complain about how the professors are torturing them with confusing tests and mind playing school work. I am crossing my fingers I get the glimmer and grasp everything I need to get ahead.
So Donnie explained to me how I needed to take a few extra classes beside my pre-requisites and build up my GPA with silly classes that I know I’ll ace to boost my scores and get a much higher GPA. Silly me, I wished I would’ve done that from the start. NOW I know better and I’m ready to take the load. He also told me that I should really think of taking the course in biochemistry and a few classes here and there that will enhance my GPA and my knowledge for medical school. So I came home yesterday and registered for Childhood Psychology for the Fall to further strengthen my application with 1) an easy A and 2) enhance my knowledge of children that will help me understand them and become a better pediatrician, later a neonatologist.
Then Van Don told me these words: “If you’re considering 2012 admission like me, then it’s time to get ready for Med School and strengthen that application right now. Take easier general courses and raise that GPA. Be prepared to take the MCAT in June 2011.”
And here I thought it was September 2011. Then he told me that it takes three weeks for the scores to come into your application and extra time for the individual med schools to process into their records of yours. The October deadline would have passed and that would put me at a great disadvantage next to those who took the MCAT in April and June because by the time the application would be completed, medical schools would have already interviewed a batch of students for admission and by October start making decisions as to who will get accepted and/or rejected and even send out the forms as early as that month. So at the latest, a June 2011 MCAT it is. I guess I should buy the Biology, verbal and chemistry sections ASAP. When I spend time with Van Don, a young man, eight years my junior, he pumps me up each and everytime. He has such positive energy and a dire desire to get ahead and better himself, it isn’t even funny for a kid his age. It feels like looking at a mirror and remembering when I was 19 years old. It is nice to remember when 19 used to be extremely young and exciting. Sigh…
I need really good vibes from now until next October (2011, that is)
On Friday, I met up with my friend Van Don for lunch at BBQ’s and a movie (Eclipse, which was surprisingly very good. I’m Team Jacob, by the way…). It was so exciting to see him again after his SMDEP experience in Duke this summer for six weeks. Lucky stiff! I wished someone would’ve given me that memo so that I could’ve applied for a program of these. Oh well, I’ll apply for next summer. At least if I decide to do it, I’ll get an automatic interview from the medical school.
From the sounds of it, Donnie’s experience with the SMDEP program was well worth his time. Think about it- a stipend, clinical rotations and exposure to the next few classes he was about to take- physics and physiology. I am taking physics next semester and I’m a bit nervous about it especially after hearing everyone in my university complain about how the professors are torturing them with confusing tests and mind playing school work. I am crossing my fingers I get the glimmer and grasp everything I need to get ahead.
So Donnie explained to me how I needed to take a few extra classes beside my pre-requisites and build up my GPA with silly classes that I know I’ll ace to boost my scores and get a much higher GPA. Silly me, I wished I would’ve done that from the start. NOW I know better and I’m ready to take the load. He also told me that I should really think of taking the course in biochemistry and a few classes here and there that will enhance my GPA and my knowledge for medical school. So I came home yesterday and registered for Childhood Psychology for the Fall to further strengthen my application with 1) an easy A and 2) enhance my knowledge of children that will help me understand them and become a better pediatrician, later a neonatologist.
Then Van Don told me these words: “If you’re considering 2012 admission like me, then it’s time to get ready for Med School and strengthen that application right now. Take easier general courses and raise that GPA. Be prepared to take the MCAT in June 2011.”
And here I thought it was September 2011. Then he told me that it takes three weeks for the scores to come into your application and extra time for the individual med schools to process into their records of yours. The October deadline would have passed and that would put me at a great disadvantage next to those who took the MCAT in April and June because by the time the application would be completed, medical schools would have already interviewed a batch of students for admission and by October start making decisions as to who will get accepted and/or rejected and even send out the forms as early as that month. So at the latest, a June 2011 MCAT it is. I guess I should buy the Biology, verbal and chemistry sections ASAP. When I spend time with Van Don, a young man, eight years my junior, he pumps me up each and everytime. He has such positive energy and a dire desire to get ahead and better himself, it isn’t even funny for a kid his age. It feels like looking at a mirror and remembering when I was 19 years old. It is nice to remember when 19 used to be extremely young and exciting. Sigh…
I need really good vibes from now until next October (2011, that is)
Inception and rest
Posted originally July 25, 2010
So my friend Nick just finished his Organic Chem I summer session on Thursday and told me that he was relieved that it was all over. Thank Heavens I backed off from that class before it was too late and decided to sit it out until the Fall. I think it is totally impossible to study 13 chapters of orgo chem in 6 weeks if you don’t know the material first hand. He told me the professor gave a six question final on Thursday and the first question was worth 48 points. Well, great, that won’t put any pressure at all on the professor’s students…
I was disappointed at myself because I really wanted to take the summer class. But I don’t think I want to add a C to my headaches- provided that’s what I would’ve gotten. I hear med schools frown upon C grades. I already have one C and I think I’ll have to repeat it just to show that I fix my act in Calculus. Boy, was that class ever so hard…
Anyways, Nick and I decided to go into NYC and enjoy ourselves for a biton thursday evening. We had some Chinese and then went to the movies to see Inception. Ok- I don’t wish to turn into a movie critic, but I didn’t understand that film AT ALL! My younger sister told me that I wasn’t paying enough attention to the plot and that it was crystal clear. Um… no. No it wasn’t. If it was, I would’ve understood and I didn’t. Explain to me how do people live in a dream within a dream, within a dream, within a dream, within a dream, within a dream…? I got confused as to why they were all dreaming in the first place. The only thing I thought was good was that other guy, Leo’s opposite, who possesed the same powers Leo had. And even THAT wasn’t clear enough!
After that, we decided to call it a night and went to our respective homes to get some rest as Friday was another day. That’s when I went to bed and suffered Inception myself. Someone convinced me in a dream within a dream that Inception even sucked more than I can ever know.
Help…
So my friend Nick just finished his Organic Chem I summer session on Thursday and told me that he was relieved that it was all over. Thank Heavens I backed off from that class before it was too late and decided to sit it out until the Fall. I think it is totally impossible to study 13 chapters of orgo chem in 6 weeks if you don’t know the material first hand. He told me the professor gave a six question final on Thursday and the first question was worth 48 points. Well, great, that won’t put any pressure at all on the professor’s students…
I was disappointed at myself because I really wanted to take the summer class. But I don’t think I want to add a C to my headaches- provided that’s what I would’ve gotten. I hear med schools frown upon C grades. I already have one C and I think I’ll have to repeat it just to show that I fix my act in Calculus. Boy, was that class ever so hard…
Anyways, Nick and I decided to go into NYC and enjoy ourselves for a biton thursday evening. We had some Chinese and then went to the movies to see Inception. Ok- I don’t wish to turn into a movie critic, but I didn’t understand that film AT ALL! My younger sister told me that I wasn’t paying enough attention to the plot and that it was crystal clear. Um… no. No it wasn’t. If it was, I would’ve understood and I didn’t. Explain to me how do people live in a dream within a dream, within a dream, within a dream, within a dream, within a dream…? I got confused as to why they were all dreaming in the first place. The only thing I thought was good was that other guy, Leo’s opposite, who possesed the same powers Leo had. And even THAT wasn’t clear enough!
After that, we decided to call it a night and went to our respective homes to get some rest as Friday was another day. That’s when I went to bed and suffered Inception myself. Someone convinced me in a dream within a dream that Inception even sucked more than I can ever know.
Help…
At my first Medical School open house
Originially posted on wordpress- July 25, 2010...
Ok, so I totally went to my first open house. It was a total accident as I didn’t have a clue that there was one on Wednesday.
I walked through the halls of the medical school side, feeling like I totally belonged. I did. Everytime I think of med school, it feels exciting and I am so ready to do it already. I was lucky enough to crowd the halls while the students were wrapping up with classes and walking to another laboratory. A lot of them looked like they were in their mid-20′s and into their own thing, but sociable with one another, as though they were the only people who would understand their dreams, frustrations and fears.
My guess is medical school is a community. A group of people who decided to embark on this long and painful journey and who happen to meet other people like them, with similar ambitions, ready to understand them. Sometimes, I feel like that with my pre-med friends/advisaries/acquaintances , although I don’t think it is a strong enough, as deep enough as those in a medical school setting.
I also saw the numbers and profile for the medical school and I sort of felt my heart sink. Gosh, how lovely it is to find out that your 3.0 science GPA isn’t enough to make the cut, but perhaps borderline GPA. With exception of one lady there, who was standing near the research jobs desk, everyone pretty much ruled out the low GPA- and don’t even consider other circumstances.
I also had the opportunity to sit down and chat with a fourth year medical student whose name, for her own security will be Rose. She seemed very nice and diplomatic despite my inconveniencing her during her lunch break (a plain cheesecake and a strong coffee) to ask her questions about her experiences in medical school. She told me that unless I was passionate about medicine and I knew that that’s what I woke up in the morning for, that I should do it and that nothing should stop me from achieving this goal. For the first time, someone (a stranger) told me that I shouldn’t be a podiatrist or something that I really didn’t want to be. Although she strictly emphasized onto me the importance of busting my ass this semester to achieve a 3.3 which is still totally possible. And if my math is correct, it should be dangerously close to a 3.3 if I get straight A’s. Will I get them? Only friggin’ time will say.
I also asked Rose about her thoughts of the medical program she attends and would she ever go through medical school all over again. While she didn’t give a flat “no” to me, she didn’t say yes either. She also emphasized on the big sacrifices I was about to make for the sake of medicine. This was something I already knew and I am already expecting. It doesn’t surprise or scare me that I would give up to some extent my already non-existing social life and my current interests to pursue the rest of life for the following 7-10 years. I just wish it could come sooner. I even asked Rose if she was thinking of starting a family in the next few years and she told me that she didn’t know either. I highly doubt that Rose will though. Her specialty of interest is emergency and internal medicines. These specialties, from what I heard and read, are 24/7 on-call jobs so when will she have time for a family if the hospital is understaffed of doctors on one night she would have to care for her babies? She is only 27 and already done with some of the hardest stuff- so there may be hope for her still, but I just DON’T see it. Now she needs to find a residency… but she was starting her fourth year of medical school next month, so maybe she applied for several already? I regret not have asked her if she already applied for a residency already.
After our little chat, I had to go to the physician’s assistant open house and couldn’t speak to her any longer. She was kind enough to even offer her email address in case I had questions about the medical school. Boy, I really underestimated the whole medical school atmosphere. Allright…!!!
Luck of the draw. My friend told me I should take some more classes. And I guess that’s what I am going to do.
Anyways, done with this post. Much to update in the hours to come.
God, I wish I was more on top of this blog…
Ok, so I totally went to my first open house. It was a total accident as I didn’t have a clue that there was one on Wednesday.
I walked through the halls of the medical school side, feeling like I totally belonged. I did. Everytime I think of med school, it feels exciting and I am so ready to do it already. I was lucky enough to crowd the halls while the students were wrapping up with classes and walking to another laboratory. A lot of them looked like they were in their mid-20′s and into their own thing, but sociable with one another, as though they were the only people who would understand their dreams, frustrations and fears.
My guess is medical school is a community. A group of people who decided to embark on this long and painful journey and who happen to meet other people like them, with similar ambitions, ready to understand them. Sometimes, I feel like that with my pre-med friends/advisaries/acquaintances , although I don’t think it is a strong enough, as deep enough as those in a medical school setting.
I also saw the numbers and profile for the medical school and I sort of felt my heart sink. Gosh, how lovely it is to find out that your 3.0 science GPA isn’t enough to make the cut, but perhaps borderline GPA. With exception of one lady there, who was standing near the research jobs desk, everyone pretty much ruled out the low GPA- and don’t even consider other circumstances.
I also had the opportunity to sit down and chat with a fourth year medical student whose name, for her own security will be Rose. She seemed very nice and diplomatic despite my inconveniencing her during her lunch break (a plain cheesecake and a strong coffee) to ask her questions about her experiences in medical school. She told me that unless I was passionate about medicine and I knew that that’s what I woke up in the morning for, that I should do it and that nothing should stop me from achieving this goal. For the first time, someone (a stranger) told me that I shouldn’t be a podiatrist or something that I really didn’t want to be. Although she strictly emphasized onto me the importance of busting my ass this semester to achieve a 3.3 which is still totally possible. And if my math is correct, it should be dangerously close to a 3.3 if I get straight A’s. Will I get them? Only friggin’ time will say.
I also asked Rose about her thoughts of the medical program she attends and would she ever go through medical school all over again. While she didn’t give a flat “no” to me, she didn’t say yes either. She also emphasized on the big sacrifices I was about to make for the sake of medicine. This was something I already knew and I am already expecting. It doesn’t surprise or scare me that I would give up to some extent my already non-existing social life and my current interests to pursue the rest of life for the following 7-10 years. I just wish it could come sooner. I even asked Rose if she was thinking of starting a family in the next few years and she told me that she didn’t know either. I highly doubt that Rose will though. Her specialty of interest is emergency and internal medicines. These specialties, from what I heard and read, are 24/7 on-call jobs so when will she have time for a family if the hospital is understaffed of doctors on one night she would have to care for her babies? She is only 27 and already done with some of the hardest stuff- so there may be hope for her still, but I just DON’T see it. Now she needs to find a residency… but she was starting her fourth year of medical school next month, so maybe she applied for several already? I regret not have asked her if she already applied for a residency already.
After our little chat, I had to go to the physician’s assistant open house and couldn’t speak to her any longer. She was kind enough to even offer her email address in case I had questions about the medical school. Boy, I really underestimated the whole medical school atmosphere. Allright…!!!
Luck of the draw. My friend told me I should take some more classes. And I guess that’s what I am going to do.
Anyways, done with this post. Much to update in the hours to come.
God, I wish I was more on top of this blog…
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