I have not been particularly great about updating this blog, as is evidenced from the several month gap between my last post and this one but I have a very good excuse, or at least I think it's a good excuse. I recently applied to medical school and since I submitted my preliminary application I have received five requests for secondary applications, one request for a pre-secondary application essay, and there are still several schools I have yet to hear from. Thus far I have had positive responses from the schools I am most interested in, who shall remain nameless should they stumble on this blog I'd rather not single out the schools I applied to as a precaution. Although all the schools I applied to are pretty excellent and I would be happy to attend any of them; at this point I've been trying not to get too terribly attached to any one school for fear of getting my heart broken by a medical school.
Many of my friends and family have been asking for frequent updates in regard to my medical school status and seem to get frustrated when I tell them that nothing has changed in the last few weeks because most schools are at the secondary application phase and I won't know for several months and I will have to go though a rigorous interview process before that happens. Frequently I have people give one of two reactions, either "you are far more patient than I am" or "how are you not in medical school yet?". To both statements I have the same response, becoming a doctor is a marathon not a sprint. I have been actively working toward the goal of getting into medical school for the past five years during that time I have graduated with my Bachelor's degree, spent the past five years working in the medical field, spent over a year working in a lab, took my MCAT, researched medical schools, filled out applications, and written countless essays. I still have a very long road ahead of me and I am so very ready to start.
*** Image Credit: This excellent article about Discworld quotes I found on BuzzFeed.
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