Wow, what a year. Obviously being a med/pre-med student doesn't lend itself well to blogging. I think, however, that hasn't been the only reason I haven't blogged. I've not only had a lot of doubt in the size of the pool of my readership, but also, besides being in my pre-med program, I've had a life.
When we make future career plans, we sometimes forget to factor in the rest of our lives. For example, for a single girl who wants to go to medical school, a boyfriend is never on the top of her to-do list. Also absent from that very list are things like vacations, weddings(others' and our own), babies(hopefully others' in my case), and hobbies. Most of the med-student bloggers who I've followed have ONE major hobby, while everything else they used to love may have fallen off that list. Some of us think, "How will I have a family?", but does it really factor into our plans if we don't even have a steady significant other? Nah, not seriously anyway. We're kidding ourselves if we don't admit that 90% or more of us are type A; so we know we make these so-called lists. So here is why this matters, to you, my readers, and most of all to myself. I'm taking it-- a year to do the things I love more than anything. So when I don't have the time anymore, I won't have that naked piece of my heart.
I'm going to continue pre-med classes, get some real medical experience, and fill up, on my own list, more than the required 15 extracurriculars. For those of you that have applied to med-school, you know what I'm referring to; you know that it's not actually required. I want my extracurricular activities to hit 20 or 22 before I go. I want to live, and then take a break from that life to do about 10 years of studying. I think this will make me, not only a happy person, but also a happy doctor.
For those of you already in medical school, please don't forget to live.
