I finally got in touch with my med school cohort and good friend, Edna (she’s at UT-San Antonio ) and she’s already started school. They have a month-long “orientation,” to kind of acclimatize people to the med school environment, meet their classmates, and take a low-intensity class. Edna and I went through all the pre-med hell together–late nights studying Organic Chemistry (Orgo), Biology (Bio), Physics (Physics), Physical Chemistry (Gen Chem), the MCAT s, the application process –everything. And now, she’s there! She’s starting med school !

It’s hard to think of the long process ahead of us–and that she’s already begun. It’s a feeling that’s hard to describe, somewhere between a dream and a goal, like this major life step that I’ve been envisioning since I was little. It’s exciting for me, no doubt, but it feels like I’ve come to this cliff in my life, where things aren’t so definite or planned for me anymore. My goal has, more or less, always been “go to med school,” but the future plans always kind of just stop there. Now that I’ve almost passed this hurdle, I don’t know what I’m going to strive for next. It’s exciting, but still a little scary, even if it’s subconscious.

I’m putting this weblog together, as an attempt to give others an insight into what medical school is like, how your doctors are trained, and hopefully, give readers a little insight into why anyone would be masochistic enough to want to do something like this. For me, it’s the human interactions and the science. If you don’t know much about the human body, I’ll try to teach you some of the more interesting snippets. It’s the most humbling and appreciative feeling in the world to learn how absolutely delicate and complex our physical bodies are–and how amazing that for most of us, it works right, 99% of the time.

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