This time last week I was frantically texting and emailing everyone I could think of still in Texas. I've improved significantly. My parents even gave me the option of returning to Texas but they talked some sense into me...
Mom: "If you want to move on campus, we'll support you. If you want to come back to Texas, we'll support you too. It's what you want to do. If you feel unsafe where you are and are constantly depressed , then me and Dad feel the same way. But I trust your research - you said you were doing this program specifically because it would give you a better chance of getting into med school than doing the classes outside of a program."
Ugh, fine Mom. You're right.
I'm just going to suck it up and get through the next 10 months. Before you know it, August will end, my birthday will come and go, then Thanksgiving, finals will end early December and I'll be back in Austin for my MCAT prep class!
Once the spring semester starts, I'm going to hit the ground running with writing and revising personal statement constantly, sending out transcripts, taking the MCAT and hopefully NOT having to retake it.
It's a little ridiculous how expensive a prep class is. But I don't trust myself to review the material adequately. It's been a while since general chem. This is all happening... it's real now.
Because I refuse to leave the confines of my basement, all I did the previous week was research med school programs, mission statements, etc. I've narrowed down my list to... 27 schools. The sad thing is I don't even think I would be competitive to my own state medical schools!! But it's okay... I feel like admissions in general is such a crapshoot.
Only one more week left and then orientation, then the first day of class. Hopefully I make friends and my homesickness/depression doesn't render me completely antisocial. And hopefully I don't get attacked or shot at walking the oh-so-long five minutes that it takes me to get to campus. If anything like that happens, I think I'm pulling myself out of the program. I want the MD/DO, but I wouldn't be able to get it in a casket now would I?
I asked around campus about volleyball and apparently it's not even remotely popular! I guess that's the bad thing about going to a really small school. I guess I could just run around campus as my exercise. Oh, how I'm going to miss volleyball. I think if I was in Southern California, this would not be an issue.
And now... to finish laundry.
Until next time,
HMQD
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