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.
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